World Display Shown At Panama Pacific Exposition
Visitors throng the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco since February 20. The vast exhibit palaces reveal Earths treasures with colorful bulb gardens and a Fountain of Energy. The Audion amplifier enables long distance speech over telephone to audiences from New York to San Francisco. Railroads offer low round trip rates and ample accommodations for travelers.
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San Francisco
Scott Street
California
Lee de Forest
Liberal Arts Palace
Atlantic Coast
New York City
Central America
Aero scope ride at Panama-Pacific Exposition amazes crowds
The Zone at the Panama-Pacific Exposition features the Aeroscope a giant crane ride for 120 passengers. A two story car lifts riders 265 feet into the air then slowly sweeps around its base offering views of the exposition San Francisco Bay and the city. Water tanks balance the car weight automatically ensuring a smooth safe ride.
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San Francisco
Bay
Soa Kum and Zone Concessions Draw Exposition Crowds
Visitors to the Panama Pacific International Exposition enjoy Soa Kum where visitors try to hit beads for prizes and explore hundreds of other concessions along the Zone's broad avenue for a mile, offering varied amusements.
Marvelous Exhibits at Panama-Pacific Exposition Caterpillars Shine
At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco the Agriculture Palace highlights the caterpillar power tractor dominating older high-wheeled engines. Exhibits show a gun built for Theodore Roosevelt by an American armorer, costing 360 dollars, famed for fine inlay work and Krupp steel barrels.
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Agricultural Palace
San Francisco
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Pearl culture and radium claims at Panama Exposition
Exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition showcase Japanese pearl culture with hundreds of cultivated pearls announced by Kokichi Mikimoto. The Radium exhibit in San Francisco promotes radiophysical methods for plant growth and water treatment, claiming terra cotta bricks impregnated with radium minerals extend potency. A Massachusetts plow once owned by Daniel Webster is displayed beside modern farm machinery, and the war department presents the fastest photographs yet of a shell in flight at Fortress Monroe under Capt. F J Beh.
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Far East
Japan
Kokichi Mikimoto
Daniel Webster
San Francisco
Massachusetts
Marshfield
Mass
Liberal Arts
Carlsbad
Baden Baden
Colorado
Utah
War Department
Fortress Monroe
F. J. Beh
Coast Artillery Corps
Coast Artillery School
Native Life of the Far Pacific at San Francisco Exposition
The Panam a Pacific International Exposition displays a Samoan village with authentic thatched huts carried from native villages. Visitors see island dances aquatic feats and the life of Pacific islanders including traces of Aryan descent, with Samoans highlighted as particularly interesting.
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San Francisco
Navigator Islands
Pacific Ocean
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Ennarttinn
Lhe Laapusuuvii
Uncle Sam
Soa Kum
Far Pacific
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
America
University of the World
Gamaliel
Louisiana Purchase
Republic
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