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bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. There are five important country clubs occupying almost 400 acres of land in or near Omaha, where the busy men of Omaha seek needed recreation. The compulsory training of school boys for soldiers meets with the approval of Omahans because, for over twenty years, Omaha high school students have been drilled under the supervision of the United States War Department.
     There is a place for you in Omaha and Omaha is the place for you. It is the wonder city of the plains, the city with the punch, a city of intense business activity, a city of comfortable homes, a city where you can rise to greater things. Omaha will welcome you.

     Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraska, and the second largest city in the state, is vastly more than an "educational center," which was its chief boast a quarter of a century ago. It is the seat of the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska College of Agriculture, and in near-by suburbs are Wesleyan University, a Methodist school; Cotner University, a Christian school; Union College, an Advent school, and in the city itself several splendid business colleges and schools of music. These still entitle Lincoln to the distinction of being an "educational center," but it is also entitled to distinction along other lines. The manufactured output of Lincoln's manufacturing plants is in excess of $100,000,000 a year. It is a wholesale center for groceries, hardware, agricultural implements, confectionery, leather goods, etc., and this wholesale business amounts to $75,000,000 every year.
     The growth of Lincoln in population and commercial importance during the last decade has been phenomenal. In building operations during that time Lincoln has held a place well towards the front of the cities of this country. The Terminal Building, the First National Bank Building, the Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building, the Old Line Bankers' Life Building, the Orpheum Theatre Building, the Miller & Paine Building, are among the splendid public improvements of the last decade. The Lincoln Commercial Club building must also be included in this list, and it is admittedly the handsomest and best equipped commercial club building ever erected in an American city the size of Lincoln. The building operations of Lincoln during the last decade have all been with an eye to the future of the city and of the state.
 

Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln

Nebraska Home for Dependent Children, Lincoln

     Lincoln has the commission form of government, owns its own water and electric light plant, and has a city debt far less than the appraised value of the publicly owned utilities. The street railway system is adequate.
     Lincoln is the most central freight and express shipping point in Nebraska. Eighty per cent of freight and express stations in Nebraska are reached from Lincoln without re-shipment or transfer. Five lines of railroad serve the needs of Lincoln in the matter of transportation - the Burlington, the Union Pacific, the Rock Island, the Northwestern and the Missouri Pacific. Passenger trains to the number of eighty arrive and leave Lincoln during each twenty-four hours. The freight service is equally good. As a jobbing center Lincoln is making phenomenal strides, due to the enterprise of its jobbers, the adequacy of transportation facilities, Lincoln's geographical location and the efficiency of the Lincoln Commercial Club.
     Lincoln has seventy-eight churches, eighteen public school buildings, two parochial schools and one convent. Its hospital facilities are admittedly the best of any city west of the Mississippi river. There are several well equipped and managed sanitariums in the city and suburbs, and people from far distant states are to be found as patients therein at all seasons of the year. As a health resort Lincoln is rapidly achieving fame.
     Lancaster county is one of the leading agricultural counties of the state, and because of Lincoln's size it is afforded an excellent market for all kinds