State Fair to Be Ideal Vacation Des Moines Display
The 1920s Iowa State Fair headlines a $5 million expansion expo running August 26 to September 4 with ticketed events and thousands of entertainment features. Highlights include 6,000 prize livestock valued over $2 million, a statewide boys and girls congress, a large women’s expo, 40 acres of farm equipment displays, auto shows, and nightly shows including auto and horse races, bands, and a World on Parade spectacle. Friday is Children’s Day, August 28, with special admissions, and Farm Bureau Day August 31 features anti agricultural discussions. A large free camp grounds area remains open for attendees seeking convenience and value. Secretary A H Corey calls it one of the most state fairs Iowa has ever held, promising affordable vacation fun for families.
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Des Moines
Mbi
Cinh
Womien
Ataio
Melowa
Burea
Tootings
A. HK. Corey
Mddiwe
Women Exposition Opens at Iowa State Fair Grounds
The Special Women of Iowa plan a broad eight day exposition August 26 to September 3 at the Iowa State Fair grounds. Two large buildings will be devoted to women’s interests with forums lectures demonstrations and displays on interior decorating home economics farm projects health and education. More than 200000 women from across the state are expected to attend the largest event of its kind.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Federation ‘of
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Farm Exhibit Week Announced at Des Moines Event
Thirty seven county farm bureaus cooperate to present thirty nine top agricultural projects at the Town State Pair August 20 to September 4. Projects cover alfalfa growing legumes soil testing weed eradication and corn yield tests with demonstrations and lectures by county leaders and a range of educational exhibits from Iowa State College and dairy and vocational agriculture groups.
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Iowa State College
Iowa Dairy Council
Vocational Agriculture Department
County Agriculture
Famous Clown Lorotte to headline state fair acts
Des Moines amid a spellbinding show lineup at the state fair late summer. Billy Lorotte, famed clown and city policeman persona, joins masters of ceremonies at the amphitheatre. Officials promise the most elaborate pods and crowds across the globe.
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Des Moinex
Billy Lorotte
Will Slut
Lorotte
Noted Band Leader Promotes Royal Parade at Iowa State Fair
The notable band leader from Des Moines announces an international Royal Seated High Lannery Band will headline The World On Parade show at the Iowa State Fair from August 26 to September 4. The production plans an world tour, hippodrome acts, and nightly air show with a grand firework finale.
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Bes Moines
Highlannery
Amer
Iowa State
den Matnes
Ds Roy DB. Smith
Lealer
GOSTLY WEDDING GOWN EXHIBITED AT IMPERIAL CHINESE EXPO
Des Moines reports a famed wedding gown of Tao Hwa displayed in the Imperial Chinese exhibit at the State Fair. The display runs August 20 to September 4 and includes other apparel and a torture chamber demonstration illustrating ancient Chinese methods. The fair marks one of the few American stops on the exposition’s world tour.
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Des Moines
Tair
America
Mohave Desert Explorers and Early Trail Blazers
The narrative recounts early Mohave Desert exploration from Ammuchabna to the Colorado River, noting Fremont and Kit Carson, the Spanish Trail, and the Mohave River name origins. It covers Mormon Battalion migrations, 1848 gold rush travel, and Jefferson Mounts leading wagon caravans along the desert route across winter-friendly paths.
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Colorado River
Colorado
Ammuchabna
Mohaves
Hertentelal
Smith
Lewia
Clark
Kit Carton
Erving Young
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Mohave
San Gabriel Mission
Mexico U
Los Angles
Bcarcely
Mremont
California
Fremont
Siates
Unitedd States
Mexico
Yuma
Mohave Desert
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Trail
Sierra Nevada
Jefferson Mount
Cmt
Spanish Canal
Hetell
Labor Day Committees Form Framed by City Leaders
Labor Day planning lists numerous committees and members including Finance George Frick and Bert Montgomery, Speaker A Henningsen, Street Attractions Charley Jonson, Baseball Bert Montgomery, and Dinner contributors V A O Connor and George Prick. Additional divisions include Distributing Advertising and Licenses with varied local names.
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George Frick
Bert Montgomery
L.T. Lewison
A. P. Thompsen
M. BE. Rappa
A. H. Henningsen
Vi Li O’connor
J. P. McManus
Trev
Charley Jonson
J. J. Sullivan
A. J. Johnson
Bert Anderson
Tena Jacobson
H. A. Dhserbast
Adolph Spices
Jordon Erickson
Howard Horswell
A. P. Thompeton
al, O'Connor
George Prick
George Frink
Roy Bartleman
A. J. Dunn
Wilbur Price
Palmer Trettem
John Clommensen
Nels Nolden
Ray Glazier
M. ©. Grodland
Max Baumgartner
Desert migrations and early Mohave exploration described
The article recounts early white expeditions into the Mohave Desert and Death Valley, noting 19th century surveys by the U.S. government, river navigations, mining discoveries in borax and metals, and the start of settlement along the Mohave River and Colorado. It highlights irrigation hopes, agricultural potential, and the region’s flora, fauna, and towns such as Mojave, Needles, and Palmdale.
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Death Valley
Ures
Bank
Tic
Wov&leas
Geological Survey
Mohave Desert
United States Omy
Mississippi River
Pacific Ocean
United States General Land Office
Aray
Colorato
Black Canyon
Washington
Mohave River
Pamnamin
Ivanpah
Tornanan
King
Ord
San Bernardino County
Otliu
Mohave
Antelope Valley
Sam
Perenninia
Ortne
Inchea
Saratown
Yormo
Ludlow
Needles
Palmdale
Lancaster
Rosamond
Victorville
Daggett
Inyokern
Uncle Sam
P. J. McCarty Promotes Real Estate and Services
Graettinger Iowa justice of the peace offers real estate and insurance services plus collections for farm and town properties. Non residents receive prompt attention and care. party affairs are handled with diligence.
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P. J. McCarty Graettinger
Iowa
Justice of the Peace
Tpra Party
City Meat Market and Farmers Grain Co. ad notices
City Meat Market offers fresh and cured meats groceries including milk bread and produce at Graettinger Iowa with Simonsen Bros. as managers and phone line 71. Farmers Grain Co. promotes grain coal flour feed machinery salt oils wire fence posts paint shingles twine and a wide feeds line urging customers to buy from themselves and try four sacks of their flour with low margins under D E B McCarty manager.
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Quaker Oats
Hays
Quaker's
Mather’s
Kentucky
Orient Egg
Bard
Quaker Oats CO
J. H. Swift
Mgr
City
Simonsen Bros. Props
Telephone
Graettinger
Towa
Farmers Grain Co
Hema
Farmers Grain Company
Areck
D. EB. McCarty
Gracttinger Telephone No
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Gostly Wedding
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J. J. Skow
Gracttinger
Times
Worsale
John Williamson
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Times Office
C. Wiegmann
M. O. Grodland
Bud
Herbert Lancaster
Town
C. F. Walden
W. J. Stevens
Graettinger Dairy
E. Richardson
A. J. Duhn
Graettinger Rendering Service
Telephone 98
W. H. Allsup
Martin Mylye
Bartleman
Bartleman, Bros
Olene Jacobson
B. BE. Dappen
L. L. Lindeay
L. T. Lewison
Henderson Furniture Co
James W. Fay
Emmetsburg, Iowa
L. G. All
M. P. Medical
Aatal
Estherville
Ofice
Twetten
TH. T. Naare
P. McManus
Farmer
Graettinger Bakery
Choone Graettinger Producta
Graettinger Frocery
M. FE. Raepe
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