State fair draws record attendance this week
The state fair runs this week reporting the largest attendance in its history, signaling strong crowds and high participation across events and exhibits.
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
7
The state fair runs this week reporting the largest attendance in its history, signaling strong crowds and high participation across events and exhibits.
A man in Mason City has slept for fifty days, with every attempt to wake him failing. He should be moved to a bustling town where such cases are publicized.
A jumble of notes covers merchants ads about shirt waists and Sunday endorsements of traveling carnivals. The column rails at Shaw Cummins tariff clashes, cites Roosevelt, and condemns political hypocrites while debating railroad reform and prohibition.
The Portsmouth peace commission reports an end to the war. Russia recognizes Japan's influence in Korea and both sides evacuate Manchuria. Japan gains Port Arthur and adjacent islands, and parts of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Marshal Oyama. Fishing rights are granted. no indemnity is paid. Sakhalin split, interned ships off, railroads spared harsher limits.
Notices announce Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows to perform in Marshalltown on Sept 7 and Boone on Sept 8. The act features The Field of the Cloth of Gold with 1,200 actors and about 500 horses. Special excursion rates are offered across lines of travel.
Excursion tickets to Chattanooga Tennessee will be sold September 14 to 16 with favorable return limits. Offer is on account of the Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Apply to agents Chicago North Western Ry.
Twelve beds with springs and mattresses offered at East Parker club house. Inquiries to W. L. Parker or Bell phone 23. Also dress making by Watson at 1213 Douglass Street after September 1, up to date service available.
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