Entry in the standard German encyclopedia Meyers Konversationslexikon
(1888):
Kalamazoo, nice place in the North American state
of Michigan, on the navigable river K., 70km from its
estuary in the Lake Michigan, has a mental asylum (with
660 patients), a Baptist college, a school for female
teachers and (in the whole township) 1885: 13,938 inhab.
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