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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 45 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Shelby county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the See also:Miami See also:river, about 33 M. S. by W. of See also:Lima. Pop. (189o) 4850; (1900) 5688, including 282 See also:foreign-See also:born and 1o8 negroes; (191o) 6607. Sidney is served by the See also:Cleveland,, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis, the Cincinnati, See also:Hamilton & See also:Dayton, and the Western Ohio (electric) See also:railways. The city is situated on an elevated tableland, in an agricultural region. Sidney has a public library, and a monumental See also:building, a memorial, erected in 1875, to the soldiers in the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, and now devoted to various public uses. The river here provides some See also:water-See also:power, and the city has various manufactures. Sidney was laid out as the county-seat in 1819, was incorporated as a See also:village in 1831 and first chartered as a city in 1897.

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