Dallas Show Window of Texas Industries at State Fair
The 1916 State Fair of Texas runs October 16 to 31 highlighting agriculture livestock dairy manufacturing and education. Exhibits from University of Texas A and M College and other schools promise vast livestock stock auto displays fine art and textile fashion shows with premium offerings totaling thousands and expert dairy demonstrations for farmers across the state.
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Dallas
Texas Industries
Texas
University of Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
College of Industrial Arts
American Jersey Cattle Club
Jersey
Bigger, Better Show This Year At Waco Cotton Palace
The Texas Cotton Palace in Waco opens November 6 and runs to November 21 with larger premiums and expanded grounds. President Asher S. Sanger and local directors push original, instructive attractions, livestock displays, and a top band led by Postmaster William H. Hoffman. The expansion includes a half mile race track, grandstand, and extensive agricultural exhibits to boost Texas farming and state growth.
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Waco
Texas
Texas Cotton Palace
Asher S. Sanger
Southwest
Cotton Palace
Union
William H. Hoffman
Cavallo
Cotton Palace Press Day Invitations Draw Texas Editors
Waco prepares to host Press Day on Thursday November 11 inviting every Texas editor. National Editorial association president Lee J. Rountree from Georgetown and committee member Sam P. Harben pledge attendance along with Judd Mortimer Lewis Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald Joe Taylor and other leading editors. Waco reporters and Cotton Palace officers vow to ensure a happy day for the guests.
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Waco
Texas
Cotton Palace
Lee J. Rountree
Georgetown
National Editorial Association
San Francisco
Sam P. Harben
Judd Mortimer Lewis
The
Houston Post
Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald
Fort Worth Record
Joe Taylor
Dallas News
Livestock Parade Tops Cotton Palace Pageant in Waco
In Waco Texas the Cotton Palace features a livestock parade with every director leading a stallion cow or jack. Prominent businessmen will also lead animals making the event one of the most amusing moments of the parade.
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Waco
Texas
Cotton Palace
Belgian Relief Still Big Task for Americans
New York report outlines the daunting Belgian relief effort. Sixty thousand tons of food monthly must feed about 1.5 million nonpaying and paying Belgians, with costs near 3 million dollars monthly. The Commission for Relief in Belgium remains organized and recognized by belligerents, but funding and logistics remain critical challenges.
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New York
Europe
America
Lindon Wallace Bates
Commission For Relief
Belgium
Commission
Bates
Imperium
Imperio
Better Babies show at Cotton Palace in Waco
The Cotton Palace hosts a Better Babies contest aimed at improving physical and mental development of children five years old or younger. Judges will assess development using livestock show principles with prizes for top entrants and insights for parents on building a stronger American race. Entries directed to Miss Roberta Wright, general superintendent, Waco Texas.
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Waco
Texas
Cotton Palace
Roberta Wright
Farmers Get Recognition at Cotton Palace Exhibit
Waco Texas announces the Cotton Palace will devote its second largest building entirely to farm exhibits for the first time. Directors aim to give Texas farmers maximum opportunity to display their work and diversify crops, making the farmer and his products the year’s focal point.
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M. College
Texas
Waco
Cotton Palace
Farmers of
War Path Attractions at Amusement Row in Waco
Visitors at the Cotton Palace are invited to the famous War Path thrill area in Amusement Row. The pageant promises universal fun with all sorts of people enjoying the lively, equal happiness atmosphere as Cotton Palace directors announce major improvements to the attraction.
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Waco
Cotton Palace
Queen's Ball at Cotton Palace Promises Record Social Event
The Queen's Ball, the ultra fashionable Cotton Palace social season gala, is expected to eclipse prior efforts. Duchesses from nearly every city in the state will attend as committee organizers leverage vast experience to stage a spectacular function that draws immense crowds and tests the coliseum seating. Speculation runs high on who will be named Queen.
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Cotton Palace
Cholera Prevalence Abroad Raises Quarantine Caution
Washington reports that public health authorities review world spread of cholera and other diseases. They note cholera present in Austria Hungary India China Russia and parts of Europe in 1914 15 with war areas likely spreading infections and justify restricted measures for vessels only when necessary.
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Washington
United 8 Public Health Service
United States Public Health Service
Olyera
Austria-Hary
Ceylon
China
Egypt
Dutch East Indies
India
Philippine Islands
Russia
Straits Settlements
Balkan
Germany
Petrograd
Silesia
Brandenburg
Posen
Zirka
East
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Free exhibit at Minnesota State Fair features Walter Hines miniature locomotive
Walter F. Hines of 2543 Jefferson St NE Minneapolis displays a free exhibit at the state fair showing his self built miniature locomotive. The engine runs on a backyard track with signals and block devices. Hines says making it was more fun than any work after completion.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Walter F. Hines
Jefferson Street
N. E
Hines
Three Georgia Boys Win Prizes With Pigs
Washington report says three Bibb County pig club members from a dairy family near Macon earned over $150 while attending school. They deposited prize money and a $1 bank deposit with county savings plans, showing costs per pound and feed records. Their sow produced seven piglets and later twelve, with more deposits planned for the fall fair.
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Washington
Macon
Department of Agriculture
Bibb County Pig Club
Freak Tree-Climbing Dog From Vermont Impresses Locals
North Clarendon resident W L Plumley reports a remarkable three year old dog that climbs trees as high as thirty two feet. Veterinarians are puzzled by the dog's grip on trunks as its nails and paw pads appear ordinary yet the feat defies explanation. The animal, part pug and part bull, even sleeps in branches twenty feet above ground.
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St. Albans
W. L. Plumley
North Clarendon
Quail Eggs Hatch Near Viola Farm Flock Grows
A mother quail laid two eggs in a nest built by Willia Bender's hen near Viola Wisconsin. The hen hatched the eggs and the birds joined the birn yard flock.
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Viola
Wis
Willia Bender
Birnyard
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Dositia
Art Smith
Cotton Palace Press
United States Commission
Lindon W. Bates
Waco Exposition
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