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explosion, but his suits were unsuccessful. (1887); the Hoyt Library and the Public Library; a large auditorium, belonging to the city; an armoury; the Germania See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute, with a See also:

KINDERGARTEN

kindergarten, a gymnastic school and a See also:

German library; and a See also:

FREE

free bathhouse and See also:

MANUAL

manual training school (1903), a See also:

PART

part of the public school See also:

SYSTEM

system. There is an See also:

ANNUAL

annual See also:

MUSIC

music festival in May.

The city has parks, including Hoyt See also:

Park (27 acres), used for athletic See also:

sports, See also:

RUST (O.E. rust, a word which appears in -many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. roest, Ger. rost); in origin it is allied with " ruddy " and " red," the reddish-brown powdery substance which forms on the surface of iron or steel exposed to atmospheric corrosio

Rust Park (150 acres), occupying an See also:

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

island in the river, and See also:

RIVERSIDE

Riverside Park, a See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure resort. Saginaw is situated in a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good farming region with a fertile See also:

SOIL

soil, especially adapted to the culture of See also:

SUGAR

sugar See also:

BEETS, NIKOLAAS (1814-1903)

beets; other important crops are beans, cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers, See also:

hay, apples and grains. In the vicinity of the city there are See also:

salt See also:

wells, and Saginaw county is the most productive coalfield in the See also:

state—in 1907 its output was 1,047,927 tons, more than See also:

HALF

half the See also:

TOTAL

total for the state. The city is an important distributing centre, has a large wholesale See also:

trade (especially in groceries, hardware, boots and shoes, and dry goods), and in 1904 in the value of its factory products ($10,403,508, 20.2% more than in 1900) it ranked fifth among the cities of the state. The See also:

MUNICIPALITY

municipality owns and operates the See also:

WATER

water-See also:

WORKS

works. The first See also:

settlement was made on the See also:

west See also:

BANK

bank of the river in 1815 and was called Saginaw City; the settlement on the See also:

east See also:

side of the river made in 1849 was called East Saginaw and was financed by Eastern capitalists. East Saginaw in 1855 was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village. East Saginaw and Saginaw City each received a city See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter in 1859, but in 1890 the two were consolidated as the city of Saginaw, and in 1897 the charter was revised.

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