City of Models Delights Fair Visitors With Farm and City Miniatures
A Washington state building display features a vast farm model showing real soil, crops, and machinery in miniature, alongside city and regional models from California and Alameda County. Other notable exhibits include San Francisco, Oakland, Pullman, and jaw-dropping engineering models like the Nicaragua canal and St Gothard railway. A global array of government, military, and industry models rounds out the World’s Fair, drawing crowds to learn through detailed, life-like recreations.
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Great West
Washington State
San Francisco
St. Gothard
Washington State Building
Christendom
California State Building
Nob Hill
Alameda County
Oakland
Bay
Transportation Department
Kenins
Chicago
Nicaragua Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
Lake
Nicaragua
Nicaragua Canal Company
Pullmen
Pennsylvania
Palace of Fine Arts
Berlin
Uncle Sam
Patent Office
America
al Ste
German Parka
William Memorial
Army
Sault Ste. Marie
Lake Huron
Lake Superior
Hell Gate Pass
Eads
Mississippi River
Sam
Congress
Walter Wellman
Washington
Iowa State Building
State Capitol
Des Moines
Capitol
Iowa
Illinois
Ceres
Banks Fear Grips Chicago Depositors As Runs Surge
June 6 report from Curiaco details cash strain at Meadowcraft Bros private bank now under receiver. Runs hit State Bank of Commerce Dime Savings and Hibernian, with deposits and assets listed. Prairie State National and Armstrong also see withdrawals or failure, while West Point cadets to Chicago for world fair prep.
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Curiaco
Meadowcraft Bros
State Bank of Commerce
Woman’s Temperance Temple
Arun
Dime Savings Bank
Washington Street
Colonel Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
Charles B. Farwell
Bailey
Hibernian Bank
Prairie State National
Prairie State National Bank
Washington and
Desplaines Street
Savings Department
Henry J. Evans
The
New York Biscuit Company
Evans
Washington
War Department
West Point
Chicago
Ohio
Sandusky, O
Sandusky Savings Bank
Champeny Bros Red Shoes and Bargains Window Sale
Champeny Bros. advertises red shoes for ladies misses and children with low prices from 69 cents. They boast a large stock, frequent reductions on all shoe grades, fresh vegetables, capes jackets curtains and drapery fabrics, dress goods and underwear, plus friendly in store service for Mitchell visitors.
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Missesi
Champeny Bros
Champeny Bros.’s
Found a Lost Child in Wisconsin Search Ends
Little Mamie Swartz, a 4 year old who disappeared from St Paul a year ago, has been found in West Superior Wisconsin. Also a U S seizure in New Orleans of steamer 8 Pizzuti of the Oteri line for neutrality law violation during the Honduras revolution 18 months ago.
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St. Paul
Mamie Swartz
West Superior
Wis
New Orleans
Pizzuti
Oteri Line
United States
Honduras
Real Estate Firm Carver & Jensen Opens in Davison County
The real estate firms here have been increased in number by the addition of Carver and Jensen who have office room with D A Mizener. Mr Carver located here early in the spring and brought the Drew property on the west side while Mr Jensen arrived here from Hull Iowa last week and will do the traveling for the new firm. The Republican notes the firm is entering business circles and hopes they will help raise Davison County's population.
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Carver & Jensen
D. A. Mizener
Carver
Drew
Jensen
Hull
Iowa
Republican
Davison County
Gillis's Palace Shoe Store Bargain Parade At Main Street
A crowded Gillis’s Palace Shoe Store advertisement touts white kid slippers for graduates, silk umbrellas, white goods at cost, 25 cent stockings, Winsor ties in many colors, and a broad shoe stock with aggressive pricing. It promises soon to sell all hats, dresses, carpets, and a life-saving pompier show during upcoming events on Main Street.
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Gillis’s Palace
Main Street
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Samoa
Midway Plaisance
South Sea Island
Dihoman
Africa
Ike & Colossus
Brookfield
England
E. Burdett-Coutts
Ashmead Bartlett
Bartlett-Coutts
Earth
St. Peter’s
Rome
Kansas Grain Company
Kansas City
Kansas
Borventown
N. J
New York
St. Lawrence River
Lakes
Detroitr
Corsica
E. B. van Alstine
Old Deering Building
Mitchell, South Dakota
A Boysen & CO
Security Bank
Mitchell
New Real Estate
Onlyi
Cook
Address ‘and Lily Company
Fisher Block
Detroit
Mich
S. H. Ccallin
L. Gale
C. W. Gills
Winsor
Drew, Selby & Co
Gillis
Pompier Corps
Fie
L. W. Adams
John Reierson
Walter A. Wood
Plano
Randolph
Fish Bros
Moline
Milburn
Lansing
Rock Island
Aermotor
Decorah
East First Street
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