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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1904
Page
3
In St Louis the Bair World’s Fair free information bureau is set up at the Wabash depot under G C Knick erbocker, offering cheerful service. A patient from Allcuts Georgia reports relief after using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles, praising its quick cure and urging others to try it. The product, advertised by J P Bueckner, claims to heal burns wounds and various skin ailments.
In the largest federal exposition hall ever built, the Government building anchors the World's Fair with a steel arch domed roof and vast exhibits from all executive departments. Visitors see relics of famous statesmen and soldiers, a postal car with staff at work, and displays from Commerce and Labor, the Library of Congress, and more across expansive floor areas.
The St Louis World Fair section outlines three main pavilions on The Pike. The Galveston Flood display recreates the disaster and reconstruction with a 150 foot wide stage and 300 foot long building. The North Pole exhibit presents a realistic New York to Pole voyage through ice and water, using a 140 by 50 by eight foot tank and 100 operators. The Battle Abbey showcases a war museum with epoch tableaux from Indian wars to the Spanish American War, loaned by Charles Gather of Chicago and led by Emmet W. McConnell, aimed at veterans and education.
Patchy old medical ad copy extols a tonic blood purifier and alterative as a cure all for humors eruptions and weak tired feelings claiming to build up the whole system with radical permanent cures. It reads like a 19th century patent medicine pitch.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as uniquely effective and inexpensive. It claims the remedy restored health for a person troubled with scrofula and near blindness, improving vision after repeated doses.
The new World's Fair stamps commemorate the 1803 Louisiana Purchase with denominations from one cent to ten cents. The set honors Robert Livingston Thomas Jefferson James Monroe William McKinley and notes the purchase territory. Sales run from April 30 to December 1 and no book form or additional commemoratives will be issued.
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