Handy manual of useful information and world's atlas, for mechanics, merchants, editors, lawyers and all classes of workers in every department of human effort; also a compilation of facts for ready (14577457290)

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Title: Handy manual of useful information and world's atlas, for mechanics, merchants, editors, lawyers ... and all classes of workers in every department of human effort; also a compilation of facts for ready reference on 2,000 subjects, being an epitome of matters historical, statistical, biographical, political, geographical, and of general interest. A universal hand-book for ready reference
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Conklin, George W., comp
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. Wheat, corn, oats, buckwheat and tobacco staplecrops. Opportunities for capital are yet excellent. Climate.—Mild, agreeable and healthful, some little malaria in lowlands.Temperature softened by ocean. Winter averages 37 deg., sum-mer 78 deg. Rainfall, 42 inches. Chief Cities.— Baltimore,port of entry, pop. 332.313. Annapolis, capital, contains UnitedStates Naval Academy, pop. 5,744. Cumberland, pop., 10,693.Chief Industries.—Agriculture and fruit growing, oyster andother fishing, canning, coal, iron and copper mining, maTfactur-ers of cotton goods, etc. Salaries of State Officers. Governor $4,500, Secretary of State $2,000, Treasurer $2,500*Comptroller $2,500, Attorney General $3,000, Chief Justice $3,500*Seven Associate Justices $3,500, District Judge $4,000, Senatorsand Representatives $5 per day and mileage. Two CollectorsInternal Revenue $2,625 to $4,500, Collector of Customs $7,000^Two Collectors $250 and $1,200 fees. Auditor $2,500, Naval Officeri5,ooo. Surveyor $4,500.
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39S MASSACHUSETTS. Old Bay State. One of the 13 original states. First settle-ment 1602, abandoned the same year. Explored 1614 by CaptainJohn Smith. First permanent settlement 1620. Pilgrims landedon Plymonth Rock Dec. 22. Boston settled 1630. First Ameri-can newspaper Boston, 1690. Massachusetts was active in bring-ing on Revolution. Boston massacre March 5, 1770. Destructionof tea Dec. 16, 1773. Boston port bill passed March, 1774. Battleof Lexington first blood of Revolution. Ratified U. S. constitu-tfon Feb. 6, 1788. Union soldiers, 146,730, besides sailors. Num-ber counties 14. Miles railroad, 2,399. All elections Tuesdayafter first Monday in Nov. Number senators, 40; representatives,240; meeting first Wednesday in Jan.; yearly terms of senatorsand representatives, I year. Number electoral votes, 14; congress-men, 12. Number voters, 502,648. Paupers, persons underguardians, non-taxpayers, and men unable to read and write,excluded from voting. School system excellent; attendance

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