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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAHR  , a

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town in the
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grand-duchy of Baden, on the Schutter, about 9 m . S. of
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Offenburg, and on the railway Dinglingen-Lahr . Pop . (1900) 13,577 . One of the busiest towns in Baden, it carries on manufactures of
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tobacco and cigars, woollen goods,
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chicory, leather, pasteboard, hats and numerous other articles, has considerable trade in wine, while among its other
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industries are printing and lithography . Lahr first appears as a town in 1278, and after several vicissitudes it passed wholly to Baden in 1803 . See Stein, Geschichte and Beschreibung der Stadt Lahr (Lahr, 1827) ; and Siitterlin, Lahr and seine Umgebung (Lahr, 1904) .

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