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PITTSBURG , a See also:city of See also:Crawford See also:county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., about 130 M. S. of Kansas City. Pop. (188o), 624; (1890), .6697; (1900) 10,112, of whom 86o were See also:foreign-See also:born; 0.910 See also:census), 14,755. It is situated at the intersection of four See also:great railway systems—the See also:Atchison See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis & See also:San Francisco, the Kansas City See also:Southern (which maintains shops here), and the See also:Missouri Pacific, and is served by inter-See also:urban electric See also:railways. The city is the seat of the See also:State See also:Manual Training Normal School (1903) and of the Pittsburg Business See also:College. Pittsburg is situated near the See also:lead and See also:zinc region of See also:south-See also:east Kansas and south-See also:west Missouri, is in the midst of a large and See also:rich bituminous coalfield, and lies near natural See also:gas and oil See also:fields. Among the manufactures are zinc spelter—there are large smelters here—See also:clay products (chiefly vitrified See also:brick, See also:sewer See also:pipe and See also:tile; the clay being obtained from a great underlying See also:bed of shale), See also:blasting See also:powder, packing-See also:house products and planing-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products. The See also:total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $1,824,929. Pittsburg was settled about 1879, was chartered as a city in 188o, and
became a city of the first class in 1908.
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