Jamestown Exposition Opens Poultry Show Oct 22
The Jamestown Exposition opens a ten day poultry show on October 22 with a major display in the largest building, cash prizes and silver cups including the $100 Corno cup. Breeders from the United States, Canada and Mexico plan to send birds to compete, and journals will host booths. Indiana and Virginia sections feature historical displays, including portraits from Staunton and Bolling family members connected to Pocahontas.
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Indiana
United States
Jamestown
Mexico
Canada
Ppulivs
Virginia School For the Deaf
Staunton
Bolling
America
John
Thomas Polling, Jr
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Thomas Bolling
Braidwood
Edinburgh
Scotland
Richmond Enquirer
William Bolling
Thomas
Priceless relics shown at Jamestown Exposition exhibit
Displays in Government Building A include historic warrants and drafts, such as Lafayette’s 200000 grant of 1824 and Alaska purchase warrants totaling 7200000. The exhibit also features Panama Canal and Philippine Islands payments, with ties to Russia and France, highlighting the era’s global finance and US revenue from Alaska.
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Treasury Department
Government Building
Secretary of the Treasury
Department
Washington
General Lafayette
Congress
Russia
Alaska
de Stocke
I” Stocke
Big National Bank of
United States
Philippine Islands
Jules Cambon
Spain
M. Cambon
Panama Canal
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Republic of Panama
Canal Zone
J. Pierpont Morgan
First Solid Steel Railway Car Exhibited
In the Machine and Transportation building an exhibit shows the first solid steel railway car ever built with no wood used.
Piers at Jamestown Crown Exposition's Glorious Feature
Government piers at Jamestown showcase towering columns archways and millions of lights forming an elaborate Tercentennial Court of Honor. Despite late completion this artistic centerpiece draws crowds and elevates the exposition as a national beauty spot.
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Jamestown
United States
Historic Soup Kettle at Jamestown Exposition
In the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building a monster iron kettle from the Jamestown Exposition is shown with a Civil War tie. The kettle reportedly fed prisoners at Belle Isle, drawing veterans to view the relic and its wartime history.
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Manufactures and Liberal Arts
Belle: Isle
Palace of the States at Jamestown Exposition
The States Exhibit Palace showcases agricultural and horticultural products from multiple states. Visitors can view mammoth pumpkins onions potatoes and apples as fragrant orchards and farms fill the air with pleasant scents.
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States
Jamestown's Accessibility Exposition Reach
Within a twenty four hour radius of the exposition live about 40,000,000 people, nearly half the U S population. Ten railroads and as many steamship lines center in Norfolk and Newport News, making it possible to reach the event efficiently.
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Atlantic City
Atlantic Seaboard
Norfolk
New York
Washington
Potomac River
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Exposition Grounds
Jamestown
United * States
Newport - News
Exposition Notes at Jamestown Exhibit Highlights
A review of the Jamestown exposition noting nightly water and land illuminations and a fireproof Arts palace with relics, manuscripts, and paintings. It highlights Daughters of the American Revolution documents, Revolutionary dolls, and notable state exhibits from North and South Carolina and New Jersey. Virginia’s exhibit under William & Torrence concentrates on state documents from early colonial era to modern times.
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Hampton Roads
Wes Path
Paul Revere
Merrimac
Monitor
North
South Carolina
Theodosia Burr
Aaron Burr
New Jersey
Virginia State
State Library
Virginia Historical Society
William & Torrence
State “Library
Richmond
Powderly Warns Black Hand Will Fade Like Molly Maguires
Terence Powderly, former Knights of Labor leader and head of the immigration information division, says the Black Hand in New York and elsewhere was formed for noble aims but has been prostituted in the United States. He predicts its end and hints at a broader push to recruit and place workers, including domestic servants, across the country.
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Italy
America
Information Bureau of Immigration
Black Hand Society
New York
Bar of Justice
Terence V. Powderly
The
Knights of Labor
Commissioner General of Immigration
Division of Information
Bureau of Immigration
Powderly
Congress
South
East
Middle West
Washington
New York Sun
Pennsylvania
Molly Maguires
Molly Maguire Society
Emerald Isle
Black Hang Society
Eunibhner
United States
Chief Powderly
Sam
Mr. Powderly
Canine Opium Smugglers Busted Near Blaine
Customs officers uncover a dog smuggling ring led by Thomas Smith. Dogs carried contraband opium and silk saddles along the boundary from Canada. one dog was shot near Blaine, Washington, then three more saddled pack dogs traced to Smith’s shack where he was arrested.
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United States
International Boundary Line
Chicago Inter Ocean
Thomas Smith
Canada
Lane
Bellingham
Blaine
Wash
Smith
Buckwheat Cake and Codfish Ball in Autumn Feast
Quasi-poem laments food trends as season shifts from light summer dishes to hearty autumn fare. It celebrates buckwheat cake and codfish ball as satisfying staples while craving roast beef, currant duff, and pork and beans amid changing appetites.
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Jamestown Poultry
Pocahontas’ Descendants
Boosier State
Virginia
Noeana dix
Janestown
Villary Pee
Bention
Gornialite
An Eler
Hampton
National Guard
Seven States
Uneto Sam
Arillery Ain
Miarie Br
Sevier National Band
City of
Jamestown Exposition
Hoor
NASA
Taimestown
New World
Department of Cote
Palace of Manufactures
Aetna
Turuias Amy Verhets Prudteis
Moore
Uncle Sam
Old Ocean
Virginia Beach
Cape Fleary
Old Dominion
Bolling Family
Michigan
Anderson
New Castle
Ife
Vitor
Bay
Chesapeake
Historis
Fort Monro
Fort Monroe
Grant Harbor
Old Fort Wool
Institutions of
John A. Markin, Jr
Nashville
Tenn
T. M. Campbell
Darlington
William
Edenburg School
Bolling Hall
Goochland County
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