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SPRING VALLEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 742 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPRING VALLEY , a See also:city of See also:Bureau See also:county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., on the See also:north See also:bank of the Illinois See also:River, in the See also:northern See also:part of the See also:state, about 104 m. S.W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (189o), 3837; (1900), 6214 (2845 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 7035. It is served by the Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, and the Chicago, See also:Ottawa & See also:Peoria (electric) See also:railways. Spring Valley is a See also:shipping and distributing point for a large number of bituminous See also:coal-mines in its vicinity. It was chartered as a city in 1886. See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet.) it is clear that " spruce " a variant of "pruce," simply stood for Prussian; the See also:form " spruce," rather than See also:house. On hills near the city border are the See also:Ohio state homes " pruce," being established partly by the See also:German Sprossen, for the Masons, the See also:Independent See also:Order of See also:Oddfellows, and the I sprouts or See also:young shoots (seen in Sprossen-bier, spruce See also:beer, Knights of Pythias. The city See also:park contains more than 250 made of the sprouts of this See also:fir).

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