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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
7
The Indiana State Fair opening September 7 features a rebuilt mile track and a smaller inner half mile track with two races on the latter. Prizes total 21 300 dollars across daily programs from Monday to Friday plus vaudeville and band concerts. Spectators will view horses feet around the track from the grandstand as ground was leveled for better sightlines.
The Indiana State Fair week of Sept 7 features night shows in the livestock pavilion arena for 10 000 spectators. Highlights include prize horses and cattle parades exhibitions fancy turnouts saddle horses high jumpers and hippodrome races with twenty thoroughbreds. Acrobats bears a trained pony and performances by the Heras family Madam Schuman Bard brothers Olivers and Diavie plus a high dive. The Weber band from Cincinnati will perform with two vocal soloists. Admission allows full day viewing of exhibits and horse and cattle entries.
The piece accuses Democratic candidate Marshall of promoting an impersonal campaign while allied operatives within his camp, backed by brewers, use deception and libel against Republican nominee Watson. It details street protests by James Corbett of Marion, slander against Watson, and insinuations about loyalty to local option amidst a broader ethical critique of the campaign.
Indiana temperance a moral issue as Rev Somerville Light of Marion and Miss Daisy Barr of Fairmount urge voters to back county local option. They warn brewers influence could tilt elections, while Democrats and Civic Leagues face backlash in Dekalb and Rush counties over shaping temperance policy.
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