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Kansas, U.S.A., situated at the junction of the Big and Little Labette creeks, about 138 m . S. by W. of Kansas City . Pop . (1890), 6736; (1900), 7682, of whom 807 were negroes; (1905), 11,720; (1910), 12i463 . It is served by the Kansas City, Fort

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Scott &

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MEMPHIS

Memphis (St

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Louis &

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San Francisco

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SYSTEM

system) and the

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MISSOURI

Missouri Kansas &

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TEXAS

Texas

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RAILWAYS

railways . The city has large

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machine shops of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railway and various manufactures . Natural

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gas is utilized for

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LIGHT

light and

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HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat . The first

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settlement on the site of the city was made in 1869 and was called Mendota ("

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PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of

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MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting "—i.e. of the creeks) . In 1871 the city was chartered, and in 1910

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government by

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COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission went into effect . It was named in

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HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of

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Levi Parsons (1822-1887), the first

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PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway .

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