Spokane Fair Amusements Promise Nonstop Action
The Spokane Interstate Fair runs Oct 2 to 8 with hourly events daily including Ferullo's Italian Concert band lectures by Frank G Odell harness and running races worth 2000 dollars per day nightly shows and aeroplane contests. The big night program Pioneer Days In the Palouse features Wild Bill Hillis and Remington Arms acts with over 300 participants and a living picture of frontier life.
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Spokane
Ferullo
Frank G. Odell
Palouse
Oregon
Wyoming
Idaho
Montana
W. A. Hillis
Wild Bill
Up the Gulch
Remington Arms Company
United States
Railroad liberality boosts Spokane Fair travel rates
Railroads offer fare and one third for Spokane Interstate Fair visitors October 2 to 8 with same rate for exhibitors arriving the week before. Generous freight and express rates on exhibits accompany improved facilities at the fair including a hospital day nursery fire station police telegraph and telephone services for visitors in Spokane. Robert H. Cosgrove secretary 217 Hutton block available for full details.
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Spokane
Robert H. Cosgrove
Hutton Block
Quote Exchange Shows Wit About Carlyle and Cheese
A humorous exchange notes Carlyle’s wisdom on cheerfulness and quips that there is strength in cheese. The light remark underscores the playful tone of the dialogue.
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Carlyle
Sydney Smith Wit on Lord Brougham’s Carriage
A remark attributed to Sydney Smith observes Lord Brougham’s carriage bearing a B on its panel and a wasp inside, prompting the quip there goes a carriage with a B outside and a wasp within.
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Sydney Smith
Lord Brougham
A Jest, a Nest, and a Mountain Rescue Tale
A dialogue about an addition to the family opens with humor from the New York Journal. A mounted tale recalls a perilous cornice on the Ober Gaberborn where amateur climber fell and his young guide Ulrich Almer saved both lives, earning a cow as reward.
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Dobkins
New York Journal
Ober Gaberborn
G. D. Abraham
Ulrich Almer
Vice Versa Defined As Sleeping Feet First Joke
In a classroom exchange a teacher asks for the meaning of vice versa. A student offers a humorous misdefinition saying it means sleeping with your feet toward the head of the bed.
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1St Nat'l Bank
Haydon
Washington
Seattle
Hotel
Washington Annex
J. H. Davis
Crab Creek Lumber Company
M. N. Hudnall
The
Kennewick Furniture Co
Kennewick
Regi
Morris
Tal
Willa
Hutton
Spokane, Wash
Brunswick Billiards and Pool
E. Tripp & Son, Props
Tobace
Gongolicated Abstract & Title Company
Benton County
Mos
Court House
Ling, Prosser
J. D. Marsh
Loesz
Oliver
Wacopel
Kennewick Hardware Co
Pioneer
Northern Pacific Railway
C. A. Crawford
North Coat Limited
A.D. Charlton
Portland
N. P. Ry
H. A. Howe
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