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SOUTH OMAHA

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

SOUTH See also:
OMAHA
OMAHA , a See also:

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

city of See also:

Douglas 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:

NEBRASKA

Nebraska, U.S.A., on the high western bluffs of the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri, immediately adjoining Omaha on the south. Pop. (1900), 26,001, of whom 5607 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1910, 'See also:

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

census) 26,259. It is served by the See also:

Chicago, See also:

BURLINGTON

Burlington & See also:

Quincy, the Chicago See also:

GREAT

Great Western, the Chicago, See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St See also:

Paul, the Chicago, See also:

Rock See also:

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

Island & Pacific, the See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois Central, the Missouri Pacific, the See also:

Union Pacific, the Chicago & See also:

North Western, and the See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short Omaha See also:

BRIDGE

Bridge Terminal See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal public buildings are the Federal See also:

BUILDING

building (See also:

HOUSING

housing the See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office and the See also:

BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

bureau of See also:

animal 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), the public library and the live-stock See also:

EXCHANGE

exchange. Next to Chicago and See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas City it is the greatest slaughtering and See also:

MEAT

meat-packing centre in the See also:

UNITED

United States. In 1905 it produced 43.5 % ($67,415,177) of the See also:

TOTAL

total value of the factory product of the See also:

state, and of this output 97'2% represented the slaughtering and packing industry. South Omaha was chartered as a city of the second class in 1887, and in 1901 became a city of the first class. The See also:

PRESENT

present city See also:

DATES

dates from 1884, when the Union stockyards were established here.

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