. Wilkes-Barré, the diamond city; a study of its remarkable progress as indicated by its growth during the last five years. Wilkes-Barre Laundry Co South Main Street Ilan Header Laundry Co. PlantEast South Street A GREAT TRADING CENTRE F. M. Kirby & Co. maintain eighty stores in as many different cities in the East, Middle Westand South, including such cities as New Orleans, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore, Louisville,Charleston, Dayton, etc., and Wilkes-Barre is rated among their other stores as having a tradingpopulation of 200,000. Within a radius of eight miles from the city and with every
. Wilkes-Barré, the diamond city; a study of its remarkable progress as indicated by its growth during the last five years. Wilkes-Barre Laundry Co South Main Street Ilan Header Laundry Co. PlantEast South Street A GREAT TRADING CENTRE F. M. Kirby & Co. maintain eighty stores in as many different cities in the East, Middle Westand South, including such cities as New Orleans, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore, Louisville,Charleston, Dayton, etc., and Wilkes-Barre is rated among their other stores as having a tradingpopulation of 200,000. Within a radius of eight miles from the city and with every point reachedby trolley lines, there are thirty-two towns and townships and one small city, having a combinedpopulation with Wilkes-Barre, of 178,923 in 1900. The population of that same territory in 1910is 245,801, showing a general rate of increase of per cent. Hut even this does not tell the realtrading population of the city for every part of the county with its population of 363,000 people is
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