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Illinois: First Province of the Middle Kingdom
O'Brien, Howard Vincent | August 22, 1923 issue

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This article presents statistical information about Illinois. With a population of six million odd and a size less than the average of the Union, 56,000 square miles, it ranks among the first three in manufacturing, savings-bank deposits, soft coal, pig iron and corn. And in the value of its agricultural produce, as distinguished from mere quantity, it ranks first. The farmers, the miners, the artisans, and the shopkeepers of Illinois share an obsession with education. Scratch the average citizen, and you find an individual who has or has had or is about to have, a son or daughter in the University of Illinois.

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MINERAL industries; BANKS & banking; COAL; CORN; EDUCATION; ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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