Panama-Pacific Exposition Plans Highlight World Sports Arena
The text outlines a grand Pacific expo in San Francisco with sailing yachts, motorboat and auto races, aviation meets, Olympic style events, and military displays. It notes Golden Gate Park coliseum seating for 75 000, Harbor View harbor racing, and a transcontinental route linking Europe to New York and Panama Canal to the West Coast. Funding totals exceed 20 million with substantial state and local support and major foreign contributions anticipated from China Japan Hawaii and the Philippines. It recalls the 1904 proposal and 1906 fire that spurred the project toward a 1918 opening.
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San Francisco
Partic
Golden Gate Park
Concre
San Francisco Bay
Europe
Atlantic
New York
Panama Canal
R. B. Hale
California
San Francisco Plans Grand Pacific Exposition and Redevelopment
The Panama Pacific International Exposition will showcase California’s recovery after the 1906 fire. San Francisco has rebuilt with reinforced concrete, hosting over 1,300 hotels and apartments, while mobilizing global visitors and Western governors to study the event.
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Yellowstone National Park
Great Salt Lake
Puget Sound
Alaska
Columbia River
California
Oregon
Yosemite
Arizona
New Mexico
Nevada
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Period Style of Decoration Still Pyles
The article surveys table decorations from various period styles adapting to modern dining rooms. It highlights artificial flowers, autumn leaves, daisies, Sheraton schemes, Grange blue with silver, violets and orchids, water lily centerpieces, smilax sprays for eighteenth century themes, holly for family dinners, and the rise of Irish lace and linen textiles. It notes that schemes are inexpensive and adaptable, with options for plain linen or lace mats on polished tables.
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Sheraton
A Way the Dutch Have Tax Collection Method
A Dutch method of tax collection involves placing one or two hungry militiamen in the house of a defaulter to live there at the defaulter’s expense until the tax is paid.
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Marie
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