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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 726 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Allen county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., on the Neosho See also:river, about See also:loom. S. by W. of Kansas City. Pop. (1890) 1706; (1900) 5791, of whom 237 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 207 were negroes; (1905) 10,287; (1910) 9032. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways. It is pleasantly situated in a level valley where there is a See also:great abundance of natural See also:gas and some See also:fine See also:building See also:stone. The city has large See also:zinc smelters and zinc See also:rolling-See also:mills, a foundry, See also:machine shops, and manufactories of See also:cement, sulphuric See also:acid and See also:brick. The See also:municipality owns and operates its waterworks, gas plant and electric-See also:lighting plant. Iola was founded in 1859 by a See also:company whose members were dissatisfied with See also:tile location of the county-seat at See also:Humboldt. It became the county-seat in 1865, was chartered as a city of the third class in 187o and became a city of the second class in 1898. The rapid growth of the city See also:dates from the See also:discovery of natural gas here, on See also:Christmas See also:Day 1893.

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