. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. n 1888 withthe founding of a small sheet called 1894 he bought a failure, the EveningNews, and made it profitable; in 1896founded the Daily Mail, and in 1898 launchedHarmsworths Magazine. The latter wasabandoned after several years, but he addedother magazines to his properties. In 1908 he gained control of Englands mightiestdaily journal, the London Times, known foryears as The Thunderer. He has built greatpaper mills in Lab
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. n 1888 withthe founding of a small sheet called 1894 he bought a failure, the EveningNews, and made it profitable; in 1896founded the Daily Mail, and in 1898 launchedHarmsworths Magazine. The latter wasabandoned after several years, but he addedother magazines to his properties. In 1908 he gained control of Englands mightiestdaily journal, the London Times, known foryears as The Thunderer. He has built greatpaper mills in Labrador to supply his numer-ous publications. In 1904 Harmsworth was made a baronetand two years later was raised to the peerageas Baron Northcliffe. During the WorldWar his voice and pen violently attackedwhatever of mismanagement he thought ex-isted in the British government, and his in-fluence was very great. His unselfishpatriotism was never questioned, but his at-titude kept him out of the coalition Cab-inet. In 1917 he was sent to the UnitedStates at the head of the British War Com-mission, on business connected with the eco-nomic phases of the ORTH DAKOTA, sixteenth in sizeamong the states of the American Union,has its northern limits at the internationalboundary, with Manitoba and Saskatchewanat the north. The Red River separates it onthe east from Minnesota; South Dakota issouth and Montana is west. In population the state was thirty-seventhin the Union in 1910, in which year it had577,056 people. A Federal estimate in 1918raised the number to 791,437. The area is70,837 square miles, which is nearly twicethat of Indiana. The state flower is thegolden rod. The word Dakota is an Indianterm meaning allies, referring to the Siouxconfederation which once controlled the sec-tion. The popular name is The FlickertailState. Surface and Drainage. The state belongsto the great central plain. The eastern end,which is part of the valley of the Red Riyerof the North, is nearly l
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