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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1915
Page
6
The Aero scope on The Zone at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is a towering crane like structure. A two story 100 seat car ascends 265 feet with a water counterweight system to balance the load and offers a panoramic ride over San Francisco and the exposition.
A photograph depicts Uncle Sam standing in the Zone, the grand amusement section of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Observers note the caterpillar power tractor dominating farm machinery displays at the Agriculture Palace. Highlights include Roosevelt’s shotgun by an American armorer, and Japan's pearl culture exhibit demonstrating Kokichi Mikimoto’s method.
The war department exhibit in Machinery Hall displays shell flight photos taken at one five thousandth of a second. Capt Behl at Fortress Monroe directed the coast artillery crew in snapping the projectile’s path from muzzle to flight, yielding almost no motion blur.
The photograph features the belle of a Samoan village at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. The thatched huts were transported intact from native villages and mirror the original forms. Visitors can watch aquatic feats and rhythmic dances as Samoan life is vividly shown. the people display traces of Aryan descent.
A sample of money saved by trading at Davis' Cut Rate Drug Store features numerous patent medicines and toiletries with prices listed. Items include Hill's Tablets, castor oil products, Listerine, Pierce's remedies, S S Blood Purifier, Danderine, Colgate toothpaste, and various powders.
An old advertisement touts P D Q bug killer as the strongest earth bug killer. It promises to kill bed bugs fleas roaches and other pests with a pure formula that leaves no egg hatch. Sold by Yrageists or mailed for 25 cents by the C Company Terre Haute.
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