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Akron City and Summit County Directory, 1888-89, 1888
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1INTRODUCTORY.
3In submitting to the public the eleventh volume of the Akron City Directory, and the third including a Directory of Summit County, the publishers feel confident that it will be received with as much favor as has been accorded to the previous issues.
5The present volume shows an increase, in the alphabetical portion of the work, of 44 pages over the issue of 1887, while the total number of names is 13,680, an increase of 1,061 names over issue of 1887.
7After making a liberal deduction to allow for the duplication of firm names, etc., we find that, calculating by our usual method, viz., adopting the multiple 3, Akron has at the present time a population of fully 41,004. These apparently large figures are accounted for thus. In making the annual canvass we do not confine ourselves to the corporate limits of the city, as is the custom of directory publishers in other cities, but include the entire suburbs, which contain not only a number of manufacturing industries, but the residences of a large number who work at the various shops in the city, and whom we consider ourselves justified in counting as part of Akron's population. In conclusion, we congratulate our fellow-citizens on the continued prosperity of the city, which is everywhere evinced by the number of new enterprises which have been started within the last year, and the continued activity in building operations. We are contented to let the volume rest on its merits, and take this opportunity of returning thanks for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon the work.
9THE PUBLISHERS
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