The New Student's Reference Work/Muskegon, Mich.

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Muske′gon, Mich., is situated four miles from Lake Michigan on Muskegon Lake, which is really a widening of Muskegon River and affords one of the finest harbors on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.  Muskegon is 40 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.  It has a large number of good manufactories, including electric cranes, electric fuses and supplies, motors, boats, billiard-tables, bowling-alleys, underwear, boilers, pianos and furniture.  Muskegon is noted for its fine educational advantages, including a magnificent manual-training school presented by C. H. Hackley and endowed with $610,000.  Mr. Hackley has also endowed the public schools with an amount which will probably reach $1,500,000.  Muskegon is the eighth largest city in the state, and has a population of 24,600.

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