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V*ts»rAKENTUCKIANS»HOME-COMING/*ONE MILLION FORMER RESIDENTS INVITED TO ATTENDTherlt;the coi togrethegreat celebrationRAILROADS OFFER LOW RATES!Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie, Battle of Thames and Massacre of River Raisin To Be Reproduced in Fire-works and Sham Battles.was su many 3 disease by con treatmt ence h£tutlona:constitiCure, r Co.. To tional c ternallyspoonfu and mu offer on fails to timonialOne million expatriated Kentuck ians and their children, even to thefourth and fifth generations, havebeen invited to return to Louisville toparticipate in the Perry’s Victory Centennial Celebration, to be held in that city seven days, beginning Septembei 29. Those particularly invited are the descendants of Kentucky soldiers andsailors of the War of 1812, and It ia estimated that 75 per cent of native born Kentuckians and the descendantsof those born in Kentucky in the pastcentury aie eligible to participate in such a celebration. Approximately onsmillion people now living in othei states are included in the “list of thossinvited.”AddreSold b Take jThe purpose of the Louisville ce-lo-to I com/morate not only Perry s victory oar Lake Erie but' ail other events of the war of 1312. (i0w e*er. in pirticulaH^ honorGOVERNOR ISAAC SHELBY, OFKENTUCKYWN lt;n person led the victorious fprca« In the Battle of the Thames.dor© Perry a special attraction In the Louisville celebration will be the reunion of the Perry family, regardless of kinship. Everybody by the* nameof “Perry’ will be invited to this special entertainment and those who ex-ptot to attend are requested to notifyEdwin Perry at the Louisville headquarters.The Kentucky Association, whichbag in charge the Louisville celebration, has given an order for a quarterof a million ancestry certificates to be handsomely engaved, and which will be filled in and given away as souvenirs to descendants of Kentucky soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812.Another entertainment in their honor will be a mammoth reception, at which refreshments will be served andprovided for public ad-.iIopportunity dresses.For the few remaining actual sens and daughters a banquet will begiven. A great ball will be given inthe First Regiment Armory, which has a capacity of 20,000 for them.Forty per cent of the white male population of Kentucky engaged in the War of 1812, consequently forty per cent of the succeeding generation were really sons and daughters of that war, and, estimating that one-half of themipt^pmarried wi^b families which didapt participate in the war, sixty perc?nT p* tbe third generation were grandchildren of the war, aqd iq similar tnanner at least seventy-five perpropaply as high as ninetyyi iTk/km 4 . Al- A .*per eeflf Of the fQunfc and Incomingflftfc generations are descendants ofKentuckians Who fought in that War.If is estimated that ip the State of*i ---■ - - rKentucky alone one million men, wo^#b and children are eligible to participa tt-» - ' - -7 auu liIs estimated that another million now living outside of Kentucky are eligibleto participate,During the week of the celebration in Louisville spectacular free events, including features on a mammoth*c*it not heretofore given with any American celebration, will be provided•very afternoon and evening. Pilgrimages to notable historic scenes of Interest may be made In the mornings. In addition to free attractions ther©iwill be scores of the highest pricedamusement concessions that can be secured on the American continent.The railroads in a radius of 500 miles of Louisville have been asked to make a rate for the celebration Week and Immediately preceding andfollowing that week of one cent a mile.LouisvilleRailroads running out of _________probably will give low rates to other points in Kentucky, so that former1 ntuckians who live a great distant Uti‘ Visit their old hnm (4fl Q a Tim 11 n aLouisvillelt;. wal committees are preparing: an aww. In Which the, Solicit tte*loan.nRHpf _ .... ____^ _War of Pfl2, providing the transportation at their expense, and guaran* tooifig that articles loaned for thewtititorUF bo returnedmugovxn for the time being win undoufctedly be the most valuable oolleoties ia America.
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Olive Hill Progressive
Olive Hill, Kentucky, US
Thu, Aug 21, 1913
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