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Title: Sherlock's World's fair guide and bureau of information ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sherlock, Eli J. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo., E. J. Sherlock
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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paved streets, 500 miles of sidewalk. 2,100 acres of park and boulevard; 26 miles of boulevard. Has spent $18,000,000 for improvements in last 15 years. Lowest rate of taxation of any city of its size in the United States;owns its own water works and is located on the longest river on earth. More scliools in proportion to population than any city of its size inthe United States. Best public library of any city of its size within a radius of 300miles; it has the best agricultural lands on earth.I It is the best city in the United States to buy goods or sell products. Its people are wide awake and up-to-date on everything. The Kansas City Building is about two blocks distant from the Mainentrance as you approach the lare-e buildings. It is the second buildingon the left after you pass Intramural Station 17. and is diagonally acrossthe street from the Main entrance to the Manufacturers Building. Theprettiest little building on the grounds where you are welcome. 20 The Kansas City Casino.
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THE KENTUCKY PALACE. Is located between the great Metal pavilion and the Texas Palace welltoward the north in the cluster of state buildings, and some distancesoutheast of the cascades. Kentuckys appropriation was $100,000. Thefloor of the Palace contains a marble center piece, showing each countyin colored marble. Kentucky day at the Exposition is June 2nd, 1904. The area of the state is: Water. 400 and land, 40.000 Sq. M., or25,600,000 acres. No. of farms, 234,667, containing 21.979,422 acres, valuedat $291,117,430. Buildings value, $90,877,460. Implements value, $13,-301,860. Population (1900), 2.147,174 (estimated in 1903 at 2.179,000). WholeNo. males, 1,090,227. Whole No. females. 1,056,947; excess of males,33,280. Whole No. families, 437,054. Whole No. dwellings, 413,974;excess of families, 23,080; averag-e No. to family, —. Population to Sq.M., 53.7. Native born, 2,096.925. Foreign born, 50.249. White people,1,862,309; Neg-roes, 284,706; Chinese, 57; Indians, 102. Men of mili

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