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VOL. XXXV.IIU1IIL'1Large Crowds on Streets Fair Grounds. Everything Passed off Smoothly.July Four I was a great day in Humboldt. It brought together the greatest crowd, with the exception of Goteh day, that ever visited the town.The day dawned bright and clear. The morning guns awoke a busy populace to a day of activity. The small boys and their firecrackers were in evidence from the first. The crowds began to arrive about eight o’clock, ’The streets were lined at nine oelock.The parade on Sumner avenue was the largest and best the city has ever put on. It took it two hourB to pass a given point. There were most beautiful floats suggestive of business, floats suggestive of fun, and some that were cartoons of recent events. There were business floats and community floats.There were clowns, bands, horseback riders on big horses and little horses — even the tiny Shetland ponies, There was the usual mammoth, long-eared mule and the fun and frolic of the clowns and the small boys.The parade was under the direct management of W. W. Sterns and he certainly attained successful results.H. CHumbolLaymerthat tlv two lie institute ranged Shoals.73/*r I c m*Begintmuing lute \vi spire a men io rection their el League, has arr institutewhich t instruct religiou; capacity the Sho. and in : tions re* ed on tlw. w. sw. \\occasion and put ITum hollt; of use ^ ingj and has not day Mr, room an is an Ai feet, mn tiful pii made tl states 5 Ijuckirroi
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Humboldt Republican
Humboldt, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 06, 1923
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