Columbus Sets Plan for Centennial Visitors Aid
The state announces a comprehensive free information and assistance system for visitors to Ohio's centennial exposition. A central office and branches at Union depot and Centennial park will direct guests to hotels, lodging, restaurants, and transport, with a paper record of accommodations and free messenger service. The plan includes telegraph, telephone, railway guides, city plats, programs, and police and entertainment info, all at no charge. Ohio invites Northwest Territory states and parent states Massachusetts Connecticut and Virginia to participate in the centennial celebrations.
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Philadelphia
America
Columbus
Union Depot
Centennial Park
Board of Directors
Ohio
Scioto River
Buckeye
Union
State Board of Agriculture
United States
Northwest Territory
Grand Army of Republic Encampment Plans Set for 1888
The annual G A R encampment will be held in Columbus Ohio during the second week of the Ohio centennial in fall 1888. It opens September 12 and runs several days after the state militia encampment. Ohio is central and Columbus easy to reach by rail, promising a historic gathering.
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Ohio
Columbus
Union
Order
Boys In Blue
Ohio invites Northwest states to centennial celebration
The Ohio General Assembly adopted a joint resolution inviting Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin to participate in the Ohio centennial at Columbus from September 4 to October 19 1888. The measure praises the Northwest Territory settlers and proposes an exposition of Ohio’s industrial and educational progress.
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General Assembly
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Joan C. Ennitrekin
House of Representatives
A. Conran
Senate
Columbus
Northwest Territory
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Virginia
General Assembly of
Ndiana
The Great Horse Show at Centennial Grounds
The horse department will be a main attraction with thoroughbreds speed classes and six weeks of classifications. Twenty four lighted barns host nearly 500 horses at once across seven classes including draft, trotting, saddle, and roadsters with grand sweepstakes and pony displays.
Special Features of Attraction for Horses and Cattle Shows
The board of managers announces a grand exhibit across beef cattle and horses. Short-horn cattle, Herefords, Devons, Holsteins, Jerseys, Ayrshires, Guernsey and Polled breeds appear in banners. Bulls, cows, heifers, fat cattle, and a full horse lineup including Roadsters and draft breeds will be shown in order for full viewing.
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Jerseys
Guernsey
Cleveland
History and relics exhibit for Ohio centennial curatorship
A proposed Ohio centennial department outlines collecting historic manuscripts letters photographs paintings busts costumes and currencies. It seeks old papers newspapers books and Indian and war relics for a broad display with coordinated cataloging and potential publication. Military artifacts will trace Ohio's 100 year martial history aligned with Grand Army gathering.
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Ohio
Northwest
Department of History and Archeology
West
General Newspaper Headquarters Established for Press
The press will receive a suitable building named General Newspaper Headquarters equipped with telegraph telephone postal and writing facilities for correspondents and the press fraternity. The centennial board will arrange furnishing to correspondents copies of jurors reports daily programs special orders and announcements and other official matters of public interest.
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Centennial Board
Patriotic Women Organizations to Welcome Centennial Delegation
The Wells Relief corps and the Woman's Soldiers Aid society, allied with J OC McCoy post of Columbus, pledge a royal welcome to the state and country Relief corps for the centennial reunion. Their growing ranks promise larger attendances and a visible display of patriotism and charity.
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Wells Relief Corps
Woman’s Soldiers Aid Society
J. OC. McCoy
Columbus
Relief Corps
The Great Northwest Ohio History Timeline 1888
Ohio history outlined from prehistory through the French English and American periods. It notes Jacques Cartier and La Salle, the 1763 and 1783 treaties, and the 1888 Columbus celebration from September 4 to October 19. It lists key works and sources on Ohio history and regional development.
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Ohio
Union
West
Jacques Cartier
Newfoundland
St. Lawrence River
Ile
Lasalle
America
France
England
North America
Ae Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Alleghany
Rocky Mountains
United States
Columbus
Northwest
Parkman
Jean Nicolett
Bancroft
Taylor
Atwater
Carpenter & Arthur
Howe
Burnett
Ohio Secretary of State
Ohio Agricultural Reports
Chase
George H. Knight
Ohio Centennial Livestock Exhibit Aims for Educational Glory
The Ohio centennial at Columbus opens September 4 1888 and runs to October 19 offering a grand educational exposition across history science art agriculture and livestock. It contrasts with crowded city bazaars and promises facilities stalls rings and land stands to properly show horses sheep swine poultry and other stock.
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Columbus
Ohio
Igle
Encampment of Militia for Ohio Centennial Exposition
The first week of the Great Centennial Exposition will feature a large encampment of the state militia with thousands of uniformed men. Columbus citizens will provide a well equipped camp ground with water drainage and facilities for camp life as Ohio showcases its citizen soldiery.
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Ohio
Columbus
Woman's Relief Corps to meet at national encampment in Columbus
The Woman's Relief Corps will hold its national encampment in Columbus during the same period as the National G A R gathering. The girls we left behind us will all be present for the event.
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Woman's Relief Corps
Columbus
Columbus Ohio Exposition Plans Highlight Railways and Industry
The article outlines Columbus as a central rail hub with four dozen lines radiating from the city, its strategic position within a vast radius of the United States, and ambitious exhibits across departments from transportation to printing and women's work. It notes hotels and hospitality, and details the exposition's planned divisions including commerce, printing, and public service.
Classification of museum departments and exhibits
The text lists 11 museum departments detailing exhibited items. History and archaeology cover manuscripts, relics, and mounds. science and education include textbooks and weather services. fine arts span crafts and painting. agriculture and horticulture outline produce and model creamery. floriculture and forestry cover plants and timber. livestock lists animals and fish. mining and metallurgy shows minerals and geology. mechanics and machinery describes industrial tools. manufactures contains domestic wares. merchandise includes fine textiles.
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Department of History and Archaeology
Ohio
Northwest
Department of Science and Education
Weather and
Department of Fine Arts
Department of Agriculture
Department of Floriculture
Department of
Department of Mining and Metallurgy
Geological Survey of Ohio
Department of Manufactures
Machinery Exhibit List Covers Wide Range of Agricultural Tools
The department outlines demonstrations of cutting boring sawing crushing grinding pressing molding evaporating and pumping machinery. It lists specific devices such as corn husking mowing and ditching machines stone and earth drilling machines cemented with steam power and wood spinning and weaving gear.
Ohio centennial push invites county participation nationwide
An appeal urges counties to organize material educational and industrial showcases for Ohio's centennial. The message promotes a statewide effort with county competition to present growth and opportunities, ensuring every region contributes to making the centennial a defining event of the century.
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Ohio
Live-Stock Associations Prep for Ohio Centennial Shows
Live stock groups that met in Chicago during the fat stock show in November will be represented at the Ohio centennial. Draft-horse associations plan special prizes for their best animals from member associations.
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Chicago
Ohio
Ohio State Grange Proposes Columbus Centennial Exposition
The Ohio State Grange supports a 1888 centennial exposition at the Columbus State Fairgrounds to showcase progress and ensure the Department of Agriculture leads the event. A dedicated Grange building will serve as central headquarters with ample hall space, offices, and facilities for attendees.
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Ohio Centennial Park
Columbus
State Grange
Canton
Ohio
Department of Agriculture
Cattle Show Set to Dazzle at Centennial Fair
The centennial cattle show at Columbus promises record exhibits of beef and dairy stock. Breeders from Ohio and beyond will supply top herds of Short-horns Herefords Polled Angus Galloways and Devons for beef and Jerseys Guernseys Ayrshires Holsteins Fresians Red Polls Swiss Kerry and other milking breeds for dairy. The event will run ten days for dairy cattle followed by ten days for beef with grouped classes and a grand sweepstakes prize.
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Aioe
Ohio
Columbus
Old Woods
Jersey
Guernsey
Alderney
Exhibition Grounds Ready for Sheep and Swine Show
Large and convenient buildings have been erected for the exhibition of sheep and swine, with ample pen-room for all breeds and classes. Premium classifications will call forth the best types and provide an exhibition of high quality.
Expo Attractions Draw Crowds During September Event
A list of participating groups and societies for the expo spans state and national bodies. The lineup includes the National encampment Grand Army of the Republic National Historical society and many Ohio associations.
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Board of Trade
Grand Army OF Republic
Renate
Board of Managers
History OF State
Coonskin
Mexico
Grand Army of the Republic
THE
Great Northwest
City OF Columbus
Department of Commerce and Transportation
Department of Printing and Journalism
Department of Public Service and Charities
Grand Army
Knights of Pythias
Knights Templar
Odd Fellows
Ohio State Grange
Patrons of Husbandry
National Encampment
National Historical Society
American Economic Association
National Pomological Society
National Agricultural Congress
Carriage Builders
National Association
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Ohio State Teachers’ Association
Ohio Sunday School Union
Ohio Colleges and Universities
National Grange
National Butter and Faye Association
Livestock Association
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