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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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8,000; sweet potatoes, 14.-194,000 bushels, valued at $16,139,000;hay, 1,367,000 tons, valued at $30,484,-000; cotton, 715,000 bales, valued at$124,410,000; peanuts, 6,840,000 bushels,valued at $14,911,000. Mamifactitres.—In 1914 there were 3,242 manufacturing establishments, with an average of 78,717 wage earners. The capital invested was $227,505,000; value of materials, $107,412,000; and value of the finished product, $178,798,000. Banking.—In 1919 there were 95 National banks in operation, having $10,-825,000 in capital. There were also 261 State banks, with $10,877,000 in capital,$81,576,000 in deposits, and $101,700,000 in resources. The exchanges at the United States clearing-house at Birmingham aggregated $146,918,000 in the year ending Sept. 30, 1919. Education.—Alabama, in common with other Southern States, has had great difficulty in developing its educational system. The common schools of the State are fairly well equipped, and near-ly all counties are provided with high i It N
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ALABAMA 85 ALABAMA schools. The percentage of illiteracy is high, but is steadily decreasing. The large percentage of negro population accounts in a large measure for the low average of literacy. The school population is about 750,000. The total enrollment in the schools is about 450,000.There are about 8,000 teachers in schools for white children and about 3,000 in schools for colored children. The principal universities and colleges are the University of Alabama (opened 1831; non-sectarian); the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (1881); Birmingham Southern College, Woman's College of Alabama, Spring Hill College, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Howard College, St. Bernard College, Judson College,Athens Female College. Churches.—The strongest denominations numerically in the State are the Baptist; Methodist Episcopal, South; Roman Catholic; Methodist Episcopal; and the Protestant Episcopal. Railroads.—The total railway mileage in the State in 1919 was 5,420. During the year there were

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