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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOLINE , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Rock See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois, U.S.A., in the See also:

north-See also:

west See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, on the See also:

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi See also:

RIVER

river, adjoining the city of Rock Island and opposite the upper end of Rock Island. Pop. (1900), 17,248, of whom 5699 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, principally Swedes and Belgians; (1910 See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 24,199. It is served by the See also:

Chicago, See also:

BURLINGTON

Burlington & See also:

Quincy, the Chicago, See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St See also:

Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the See also:

Davenport, Rock Island & North-Western See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. A channel in the Mississippi river here, 250 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at See also:

low See also:

WATER

water, projected in 1905, was completed in 1908; and in 1907 a See also:

lock was finished which affords a See also:

DRAUGHT (from the common Teutonic word " to draw "; cf. Ger. 7'racht, load; the pronunciation led to the variant form " draft," now confined to certain specific meanings)

draught of 6 ft. and is a part of the 6 ft. channel improvement of Rock Island Rapids. The city has large and varied manufacturing See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries; water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power is derived from a See also:

DAM

dam maintained by the Moline Water-Power See also:

COMPANY

Company; and there is a large electric-power plant. The most important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is the manufacture of agricultural implements (particularly See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel ploughs, which seem to have been made here first in the See also:

UNITED

United States, and See also:

corn-planters). Among the other manufactures are boilers and gasolene engines, wagons and carriages, automobiles, and pianos and See also:

ORGANS

organs. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway has a goo-See also:

acre yard and See also:

machine See also:

SHOP

shop See also:

east of the city limits, and there is a large U.S. See also:

ARSENAL

arsenal on Rock Island. Moline was settled in 1832, laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town in 1842, and was chartered as a city in 1855 and rechartered in 1872.

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