Texas State Fair Opens October 15 With New Structures
Dallas Texas The 1910 State Fair of Texas begins October 15 and runs sixteen days showcasing a new Coliseum a 1100000 building between the Fine Arts and Main Entrance and an Industrial Arts house. President E J Kiest and Secretary Sydney Smith headline a program of permanent improvements exhibitions and entertainments aimed at a record crowd.
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Dallas
Texas
Southwest
E. J. Kiest
Fair to Unfold as Mecca for Canine Show Visitors
A grand fair opens this fall with a new building and top amenities for the dog show world. Benches for 300 to 500 entrants. famed kennels from across America. total premiums near 95000 dollars plus 45000 to 50000 in racing and tournament prizes. Livestock awards exceed 25000 dollars with four night horse shows costing 5000. Prizes for Herefords 2180, Shorthorns 2070, Red Polled 1115, Polled Durhams 1265, Aberdeen Angus 760. All eight breeds to be well represented. Essex and Berkshire breeds expected to lead. The livestock exhibition aims to boost Southwest industry.
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America
Livestock Department
Berkshire
State Fair of Texas Showcases Women's Handiwork
Dallas hosts the twenty fifth annual State Fair opening October fifteenth for sixteen days. The textile and manual art divisions will overflow with needlework lace embroidery photography oil paintings and hand painted china. Teachers guide school children to compete for gold medals and cash prizes in drawing design domestic science and art.
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Texas
Dallas
Bees Swarm Show Highlight at State Fair Tex as
The Apiary Department hires Frank G. Odell master apiculturist for the twenty-fifth annual State Fair of Texas October 15 to 31. Odell performs a vaudeville style insect show with fifty thousand bees in a screened enclosure, delivering rapid fire lectures on agriculture with humor and eloquence. His acts drew over a million listeners in five years of fairs and expositions nationwide.
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Dallas
Texas
Apiary
Frank G. Odell
Odell
Model rural school exhibit at State Fair in Dallas
At the twenty-fifth fair in Dallas beginning October 15 for sixteen days visitors can inspect a model rural school building. The model schoolhouse is erected and furnished with the latest school furnishings. The State Fair management encourages the exhibit to improve rural school conditions and ensure rural children have schooling advantages equal to city children.
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Texas
Dallas
State Fair of Texas Opens in Dallas with Low Rail Rates
The twenty-fifth annual State Fair of Texas opens in Dallas on October 15 and runs sixteen days. Railroads announce exceedingly low round trip rates from all points in the Southwest. General passenger agents emphasize the fair’s importance to regional development and urge visits by all. Poultry enthusiasts will find a strengthened division with higher premiums and the latest industry developments on display. Superintendent Van Winkle travels North to align the fair with current trends and improvements.
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Texas
Dallas
Southwest
Southwestern Railroads
Pfillas
van Winkle
North Ang
State Fair of Texas Sets Free Attractions Program
Dallas notes the twenty fifth annual State Fair with free attractions headed by Thavin’s Band and Gilletti’s Monkey Circus. Russian dancers Tyrolean singers and operatic stars join a large Auditorium program alongside aerial displays, aeroplane races, dirigible shows, and Cimmijotti Arabian horses. President Kiest and Secretary Smith promote wholesome amusements across Amusement Park and grounds.
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Dallas
Texas
America
E. J. Kiest
Sydney Smith
Thavin
Thavia
Gillett
Monkey Circus
Fred Gilletti
Gilletti
Papa Monkey
Land of the Czar
United States
Tyrol
Department of Mirth
Coney Island
New York
Chicago
Land of the Rising Sun
New Divisions for Texas State Fair Hope Big Exhibition
The State Fair of Texas marks its twenty fifth annual meeting at Dallas October 15 to 30 with nearly 1750000 in permanent improvements. A model ten acre cotton farm will showcase cotton picking machines under D A Saunders with county and state participants and premiums over 5000. The Boys Corn Club yields 1200 in premiums plus a special day for clubs. Beef and dairy cattle, horses, swine and sheep receive 10500 100 swine 5000 and 1900 in cash premiums respectively.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Southwest
E. J. Kiest
D. A. Saunders
United States Department of Agriculture
United State Department of Agriculture
State Fair Management
Bankers’ Association of Texas
Texas Land and Mortgage Company
State of Texas
A and M. College
State Fair of Texas
Livestock Department
State Fair Texas to Showcase Sensational Racing
Dallas 1910 feature story previews the twenty fifth annual State Fair of Texas with $50,000 in purses across horse harness racing auto motorcycle and tournament events over ten days plus three days of automobile contests.
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Dallas
Texas
Fair
Art Exhibit at State Fair of Texas Opens October 15
Visitors to the twenty fifth State Fair of Texas in Dallas will view paintings by leading U S artists. The Dallas exhibition showcases works by Charles M Chapman Charles Pete Bock Bruce Crane Julian Onderdon Robert Hearl and others, highlighting Texan appreciation for the best in art.
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Texas
Dallas
United States
Charles 3. Chapman
Charles
Pete Bock
Bruce Crane
Julian Onderdon
Robert Hear
State Fair Horse Show Opens With 5000 In Premiums
Dallas hosts the State Fair of Texas opening October 15 featuring four night horse shows at the new coliseum arena. Total prizes amount to 4200 dollars across roads heavy harness saddle classes with 1350 1500 1350 respectively and breeding class premiums. Guests from North and East enter heavy harness entries while W E Brown of New York solicits prize lists for Madison Square participants. Thavius band and Cim mirotti Arabian horses provide interludes between rings.
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Dallas
Texas
W. E. Brown
New York
Madison Square
Dalas
Coliseum
Thavius
Cimmirotti
Features at Fair Include Naval Exhibit and Model Cotton Farm
Dallas opening the twenty-fifth State Fair of Texas October 15 for sixteen days with an extraordinary display of livestock and agricultural products. The management offers educational features such as a United States naval exhibit a geological and mineral resources display a fishery exhibit a model cotton farm a good roads park manufacturing machinery in operation and an old fashioned tournament popular in the South before the war.
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William B. Phillips
Department of Economic Geology
University of Texas
Texas
Phillips
San Marcos
John L. Leary
Bureau of Fisheries
Robert J. Potts
Agricultural and Mechanical College At
Austin
Potts
State Fair Management
Dallas
United States
Good Roads
South
Twenty Fifth Annual Texas State Fair Opens in Dallas
The State fair of Texas marks its twenty fifth annual meeting opening in Dallas on October 15 for sixteen days. The three Sundays will be Sacred Concert days with Bandmaster ThaIy arranging short programs for morning noon and evening performances.
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Texas
Dallas
Thaiiy
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Sam P. Cochran
Royal A. Ferris
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Sam T. Morgan
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EB. H. Reach
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W. H. Kinnard
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