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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ALSEBTSON 95 ALBION industry is important. The total livestock numbered 3,417,141, including about330,000 cows, and 735,000 other cattle.Swine numbered about 600,000 and sheepabout 330,000. There were valuable min-eral deposits. There were mined in1918 nearly 3,000,000 tons of coal. Thereare also rich natural gas deposits. Therailway mileage in 1918 was 4,444. Thetrade imports in 1918-1919 were valuedat $15,926,379, and the exports at$2,256,186. ALBERTSON, CHABLES CABBOLL, an American clergyman; born in Plain-field, Ind., in 1865. He studied law andafterward theology at the Garrett Bib-lical Institute and the NorthwesternUniversity, and then served as pastor inseveral cities in New York and Pennsyl-vania. From 1899 to 1904 he was pastorin Philadelphia and from 1904 to 1913he was pastor of the Central Presby-terian Church of Rochester, N. Y. In1913 he became pastor of the LafayetteAvenue Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn.He was the founder and president of theBook Lovers Guild and lectur

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