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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
8
Len Small of the Kankakee fair credits advertising and sustained press coverage as the key to turning a struggling, country pumpkin show into an Interstate exposition. The fair, now under Small’s leadership, has rebuilt over twenty five years through honest policies and broad promotion, with this year’s exhibition set for September 1 to 5.
The piece extols motoring within 50 to 75 miles to Kankakee during the first week of September. It notes good roads in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana, pleasant weather, and easy round trips. A sample plan shows an eight am departure, four hours to reach, four hours for the return, with night driving under bright stars from September 1 to 6.
The Kankakee Interstate fair invites farm implement firms to exhibit machinery September 1 to 5. Advertising and display are urged to boost farm equipment sales and educate farmers about labor saving innovations. Address Sen. Small in Kankakee, Illinois for details.
The event runs five evenings from Monday September first through Friday September fifth at the Kankakee Interstate fair. Local entertainment and attractions are planned for each night of the fair week.
The Horse Show presents the Ever Draft Team Championship holders featuring 150 Saddle, Light Harness and High School horses. Daily performances run each afternoon from four to six, showcasing animals of high intelligence before the grandstand.
A comprehensive breeders exposition features five hundred top horses including Percherons Belgians English Shire Draft Coach and Road Horses and Shetland ponies. Cattle from all Middle Western breeds and entries in hog and sheep departments arrive from Illinois Michigan Indiana Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota.
The exposition highlights centuries of invention and months of work in Machinery Hall where human ingenuity shines. Agricultural Hall features fruits and grains from the best farms in the Kankakee Valley.
A dated listing outlines daily racing events from September 1 to September 5 with multiple pace and trot races and open purse amounts. It notes events for three year olds or under trot and mentions a country road race titled CTIGLE TAD with an old 50.00 prize. Includes “Running Races Every Day” as a general note.
The young aviators promise fearless displays with flights each day including feature aero tricks such as valplaning spiral corkscrew death glide cross country and altitude flights ensuring unmatched beauty and execution at the exhibition.
Twenty big circus features headline a program of daring aerial feats by Europe and America’s most renowned performers. Spectators are urged to secure tickets now for best viewing from the Grandstand.
The Carnival Johnny J. Jones Exposition presents a grand collection headlined by a Wild Animal Exhibit and twelve other major shows. Two brass bands perform as about 250 people travel in twenty two cars across venues.
Jerome A. Hart notes Sardou kept hundreds of dossiers and memos for every idea. He filed engravings maps and documents and annotated histories. A skeleton plot formed into Thermidor after years of seasoning while Theodora waited a decade for ignition.
The globe, reportedly the first of its kind in Arabia and one of a few from Bagdad to Aden, sits in a Bible shop to lure customers. Sailors and travelers recognize its accuracy, yet the question of the under half’s living persists while locals exclaim Mas hallah and doubt the object as Christian heresy.
A New York woman in a clinging black satin gown with fur trim trotted along Fifth Avenue beside a black French poodle whose grooming mirrored the woman’s, illustrating a case of human copying canine style rather than the dog adapting to human fashion.
Dr Hobson Eczema Ointment touted as perfect cure for decades long teeter eczema. Mrs D L Kenney credits it with ending over fifty years of suffering. Ad notes availability from Pfeiffer Chemical Co and druggists for 50 cents and urges Foley's Honey and Tar as safe cough and throat remedy by A R Ellison of Taylor Wisconsin and other sellers.
Burns offers 10 and 20 acre Missouri timber tracts valued at 25 dollars per acre for vacant property exchange. Contact 3021 Archer Avenue, Chicago. Also selling Rhode Island Reds Barred Plymouth Rocks and White Leghorns chicks by C F Volp of 487 York Street. Advertise wants or sales in THE SUN.
An old advertisement claims many residents of Blue Island with chronic appendicitis mistake gas sour stomach or constipation for the ailment. It asserts that a single dose of buckthorn bark glycerine and similar ingredients, as compounded in Adler-ika, will quickly relieve symptoms.
Bath Illinois resident J C Eveland credits Dr Hobson s Eczema Ointment with curing twenty five years of eczema after trying many remedies. The formula is said to be a physician s creation long in use. Available via druggists or mail for 50 cents from Pfeiffer Chemical Co Philadelphia and St Louis.
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