Ohio women lead centennial exhibit plan across arts and life
The article outlines a proposed Ohio centennial exhibit in 1888 featuring a women’s department with subfields in art literature education professions benevolences reforms science invention floriculture domestic life and art industries. It calls for contributions from 1.5 million Ohio women to showcase historical progress and practical improvements in daily life.
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Ohio
Woman’s Department
Buckeye State
Pioneer Woman's Department
Dairy Cattle Test Promises Objective Exposition Study
Ohio centennial exposition directors announce a forty day dairy test to compare breeds. An expert dairyman will oversee feed, milk output, butter and cheese quality with precise records. Native Ohio cows may compete, and results will appear in the 1855 annual agriculture report. Art department plans prominent galleries and national participation.
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Board of Agriculture
Ohio
Livestock Department
Exhibitions Show Century's Progress In Arts And Industry
The exhibit concept highlights each department with the best representative items. It aims to display progress across the century by pairing primitive machinery and pioneer implements with advances in arts sciences and education. The display emphasizes current conditions and future developments.
Centennial drills to crown top drilled regiments units
In the first week of the centennial there are competitive drills for infantry artillery and cavalry with premiums for the best drilled regiment company soldier battery and cavalry troop. The next week features a Grand Army drill corps competition.
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Grand Army Drill Corps
Ohio at the Expo Aims to Showcase State Progress
The text outlines Ohio as a leading union state with vast area and population density. It highlights diverse industries, farming, timber, and wool production, plus a planned chemical exhibit by Professor Henry A. Weber at the state university, performing analyses of milk water syrups sugars vinegar and more during the exposition.
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Ohio
Northwest Territory
Union
America
Henry A. Weber
State University
Department of Science
Weber
State Dairy and Food Commission
Ohio ready for a state exposition to rival world fairs
The passage lists Ohio’s strong showing across industries and public metrics including farms, schools, manufactures, and railroad activity. It emphasizes state leadership in several indicators and asserts Ohio can host a surpassing world-class exposition that would make Americans proud to visit.
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Ohio
National Encampment to Be Held in Columbus in Centennial Year
The national encampment of the Grand Army will convene in Columbus during the centennial exposition week. A September 11 procession is planned with up to one hundred thousand marchers, one hundred bands, and numerous drum corps. Ohio posts will gather by county battalions and centennial funds aim to cover travel and lodging, with headquarters hoped at the State-house to ease hotel crowding.
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Ohio
United States
Grand Army of the Republic
Columbus
Grady & McKeever
Sixth Avenue
New York City
Aa. Walthausen
Grand Army
America
G. A. R. Post
Department of Ohio
Grand Army Committee
Union
Baltimore
Denver
Minnepolis
Portland
San Francisco
St. Louis
Colorado
Minnesota
California
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
McPherson
Garfield
The Boys in Blue at Columbus Grand Army Encampment
A preview of the Grand Army of the Republic gathering in Columbus during the Ohio Centennial’s second week. The piece notes growth from 2000 Ohio members to about 400000 nationally and reflects on the organization’s enduring charity and leadership as veterans fade over time.
Forestry Exhibit Outline With Trees and Machinery
A drained, trenched ground will host forestry displays with labeled nurseries showing class name origin and culture. A central log house will feature wood cuts, manufacturing processes, and articles showing transformation from raw timber to finished products. Displays include timber, trunks, bark leaves seeds masts spars and ship timbers.
Arboretum Planned by Floriculture Commissioner
The commissioner of floriculture and forestry plans a large arboretum featuring ornamental, forest, and fruit trees. A eastern firm promises a thousand evergreen varieties. A rustic house will stand at the center filled with wood specimens and related products.
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Department of ‘‘Floriculture and Forestry
Exhibition of Ohio’s Oldest Newspapers Opens
The event features the oldest copies of Ohio’s first newspapers on display with facsimiles for sale. A sample copy of every current Ohio newspaper will also be shown, highlighting a broad statewide press history.
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Ohio
Columbus Prepares Barracks for Grand Army Week Crowds
The local Grand Army committee plans to build barracks and furnish tents to host up to 100000 visitors during Grand Army week. A complete entertainment bureau will be led by a capable business head to manage the arrangements with efficiency. Thousands from 50 to 70 miles away are expected to arrive by train, while lodging and meals are deemed sufficient for all attendees. The organizers believe Columbus can accommodate as many as three hundred thousand visitors.
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Columbus
Grand Army Committee
Grand Army
Industrial Procession Promises Grand Ohio Display
During the third week of the centennial exposition a great procession of Ohio industries will appear Thursday. Representing every section of the state, the event will showcase a competitive and imposing industrial display. It aims to benefit farmers and fruit-growers and draws broad public interest.
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Ohio
Great industrial procession draws state to ex position event
Tens of thousands will attend the ex position to witness a grand industrial procession. The grand review after the war, when Sherman and Grant returned to Washington, is cited as a lasting memory. The industrial event of the age invites full state representation.
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Sherman
Grant
Washington
History and Art Exposition Celebrates Ohio’s First Century
A grand history and art exposition touted as the greatest ever seen in the Mississippi valley will showcase livestock, agriculture, horticulture, machinery, mining and metallurgy. Every county will contribute, and Ohio’s centennial celebrations will mark the nation’s progress with impressive ceremonies.
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Mississippi Valley
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Ohio
Ohio Archeology Exhibit Seeks Donations for Centennial
Ohio plans a comprehensive archaeological exhibit with a focus on mound builders and Indian relics. It invites collectors to contribute representative items, promises cataloguing and replication where possible, and offers sale or exchange options while items remain on display.
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Ohio
United States
America
Smithsonian Institution
Department of Indian
Our First Centennial in Ohio and the Northwest Territory
The article argues Ohio should lead and include the Northwest Territory in celebrating the first American settlement on the left bank of the Great Meaneem River on April 7 1788. It notes Ohio’s formation in 1803 placed that settlement inside its borders and urges wider participation from other states.
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Ohio
Northwest Territory
Meaneem River
Ohio River
Centennial grounds show schools from state institutions
The commission plans educational displays at centennial grounds featuring a Deaf and Dumb asylum school, a Blind asylum school, Boys' Industrial home, Girls' Industrial home, Soldiers Orphans' home, and a kindergarten in the Woman's department. Training schools will illustrate practical oceania in education across cities.
Ohio’s Resources Urged For Centennial Exposition
The state longs to showcase its vast coal and iron deposits and rich minerals at the coming centennial exposition. Citizens and industries are urged to prepare full exhibits of metals, coal, minerals, geology, glass, salts, oils, and manufactured products, with early notice to reserve display space.
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Belgium
Lombardy
Ohio
Lake Erie
Ohio Centennial Board Directors and Exhibition Departments
A list of the Ohio Centennial board of directors includes Governor J. B. Foraker as president and officers like H. T. Chittenden, G. Hurst, L. B. Harris, W. S. Foster, C. D. Bailey, and J. C. Levering among others. Exposition departments assign commissioners such as A. A. Graham for History and Archaeology, W. S. Goodnough for Fine Arts, S. H. Ellis for Agriculture, N. H. Albaugh for Horticulture, Herman Haerlin for Floriculture, L. G. Delano for Livestock, B. F. Perr for Metallurgy, Isaac D. Smead for Mechanics, John J. Sullivan for Manufactures, R. B. Brown for Printing, Mrs. D. L. Williams for Woman’s Work, and Rev. A. G. Byers for Public Service.
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J. B. Foraker
H. T. Chittenden
Columbus
H. Hurst
Chillicothe
L. B. Harris
Upper Sandusky
Treather
Foster
Urbana
C. D. Bailey
Gallipolis
KR. Brinkerhoff
Mansfield
J.C. Levering
Leverings
Henry Talcott
Jefferson
L. N. Bonham
A. A. Graham
J. W. Fleming
Goodnough
H. Ellis
Springboro
N. H. Albaugh
Tadmor
Herman Haerlin
Cincinnati
L. G. Delano
B. F. Perr
West Andover
Isaac D. Smead
Toledo
John J. Sullivan
Millersburg
R. B. Brown
Zanesville
D. L. Williams
Delaware
Rev
A. G. Byers
Regimental Reunions for Ohio Veterans Planned
Regimental reunions are urged for Ohio soldiers with a September 13 morning gathering and a grand evening camp-fire. The proposal aims to reunite numerous veterans who served together and will likely be among the last large gatherings.
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Ohio
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