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Dream of City Hall Parade and the Locked Progress Statue
A barber recounts a dream of a city hall council meeting in Fairfield where a parade form carries blueprinted city planning plans. The crowd, including familiar locals, watches as progress statue remains locked in dust and a entertaining figure stirs the crowd with an electrolier before the dream ends with a commission of bluffing scribbles and a leaking water scene.
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City Planning Commission
Fairfield
J. C. Thorne
Ray Maxwell
Charley Anderson
Fulton
George Woods
Dillon Turney
Dillon
Lem Nelson
Lem
Roland Marsh