The Greatest Wonder at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
A vivid, expansive preview of the 1904 St Louis Exposition, touting its scale as a modern wonderland. It highlights steamships, locomotives, telegraphs, photovoltaics, and experimental displays such as the wireless station, radium experiments, hydraulic press, refrigeration plants, and automated farming machines. The text notes dramatic features including illuminated cascades, a buried river, a $140000 underground stream, and a grand battleship deck exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antipater of
Sidon
St. Louis
Fairgrounds
Franklin Express
Wonders of the World at St Louis Exhibition Revealed
Claude H Wetmore previews the St Louis fair displaying mechanized marvels from a giant gas engine to a portable pencil and a revolving locomotive. Sheer global exhibits from China to Brazil promise innovations, crops, and arts, with the canal dream and transportation growth showcased from April 30 to December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemical Laboratory
Palace of Machinery
Palace of Transportation
Electro Chemical Laboratory
Graphic Arts
Liberal Arts Palace
China
Confucius
Japan
Loti
Brazil
Peru
Hiawallt
Russia
Panama
United States
St. Louis
Philippines
Arrowhead Lake
Alaska
Amazon
Nile
Claude H. Wetmore
World's Fair exhibits reveal vast model farm and giant clock
Government displays include a 160 acre model farm with a model farmhouse barn stables and outbuildings plus an orchard vineyard garden stock and poultry yards and pigsties a 100 foot floral clock on the Palace of Agriculture front with a 50 foot minute hand a four acre rose garden and a six acre map of the United States formed from crops a large organ in Festival Hall a fireproof building for valuables and legal blanks for visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace of Agriculture
United States
Dairying in Nebraska touted to boost eastern interest
Article by Prof. A L Haecker highlights Nebraska dairy potential and rising dairy industry metrics. It notes 1903 butter fat payments totaling over 1.25 million at one creamery and 1 million at another, plus growing milch cow numbers and value. Buffalo Bill Cody files for divorce amid cruelty claim. wife to contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
East
A L. Haecker
State Experiment Station
S. C. Bassett
Nebraska Dairyman’s Association
Imile
Burlington
Haecker
Bassett
J. Francis
Omaha
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
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Bove
A. Pease & Sons
Sidney
Che
Tobin & Wasem, Proprietors
Schlitz Beer
Milwaukeee
T. B. Dawson
Rose Street
Sidney, Neb
B. F. Mitchell
Prop
Kruse Bros
Schlitz
Milwaukee
Zang
Front
Festival Hall
California
Union One
Oregon
Washington
Neb
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Butte
Anaconda
Helena
Spokane
Wenatehoe
Wash
Everett
Fairhaven
Whitcom
Vancouver
Astoria
Porthind
W. D. Clifton
Palace Livery Barn
M. £. Washburn
Catarra
Elty
ELY Brothers
Warren St
New York
Cmicmegter
SAFE
Legion
Urusei
Siester
Englyin
Pace Ium Blue Hbbes
Egercns
Ruy
Tentimentala
Ladica
Reform Mall
Chichester Chemical Cethic
Modises Square
Phila
Inside Informawon
Weil
Fred Kaufffmann
Chicago
U.S.A
Fred Kauff
Bergmans
Fred Kauffman
EW Groves
Eich Box Bic
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