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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Davison county, See also:South Dakota, U.S.A., about 70 M. W.N.W. of See also:Sioux Falls. Pop. (1905), 5719; (1910), 6515. Mitchell is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul and the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Omaha See also:railways. Among its buildings and institutions are the city See also:hall, the Federal See also:building, a See also:Carnegie library, ahospital, and a sanitorium. Mitchell is the seat of the Dakota Wesleyan University (1885; Methodist Episcopal). At Mitchell is a " See also:corn See also:palace," which is decorated each autumn with split ears of See also:Indian corn, and is the centre of an See also:annual festival, held in See also:September and See also:October. The city is an important See also:shipping point for See also:grain and livestock, and has a large wholesale See also:trade. There are railway repair shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway, See also:machine shops, and manufactories of bricks and dressed See also:lumber. Mitchell was settled in 1899 and chartered as a city in 1883.

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