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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
7
State Secretary of Agriculture N. H. Shaw announces an Ohio aquarium at the coming state fair in late August. Twenty tanks will house bass crappies sturgeon pickerel muskelunge and other species. The exhibit will be managed by the state fish and game bureau and welcomes county fish and game societies to visit.
The Ohio State Fair will emphasize patriotic music in its final August week. Major acts include New York’s Seventy first Regiment Band led by Lieut. Eben and Toledo's Fred W. Loewer band, with traditional martial pieces from Major R. H. Hendershott and son. Howard’s colored orchestra and other groups also perform on the grounds.
The Ohio State Fair will dedicate a patriotic day in late August with exercises, addresses, singing, flag raising, and demonstrations. Thomas F. O'Mara, publicity director, says thousands of soldiers are expected to attend and participate, showcasing public patriotism.
Ruth Law, famed aviator and record setter, returns to the Ohio State Fair in late August. She will perform two flights daily for five days in demonstrations of war era aerial maneuvers aboard a Curtiss biplane, drawing crowds and boosting Liberty Loan campaigns. Law has served in spirit for the U S army and toured Canada with exhibition flights.
Fair Manager FE W Walborn confirms full enforcement of Hoover era food rules during the last week of August. Dining facilities have been expanded including a rebuilt dining hall costing $5,000 with capacity for about 400, served on a serve yourself basis at reasonable prices. meals will also be served under the grandstand with improvements completed.
The Ohio State Fair grounds transform into a bustling city with telephones, telegraph offices, post and express services, a hospital, fire and police protection, electric lights, and ample parking. Exhibits of livestock and machinery attract big crowds and substantial sums of money, with managers predicting record quality and attendance.
The forthcoming Ohio State Fair will center on a massive new Coliseum seating over 6,000. From late August, livestock judging by day and a night program of horse shows and vaudeville will draw crowds. The $225000 structure hosts top acts including the Seventy first Regiment Band and Alber tina Rascha Company.
Ohio state fair managers decide on a horse show open only to Ohio horses with 3910 in prizes. Donald R. Acklin oversees, judging saddle horses and ponies, while Capt. Walter Palmer handles roadsters, hunters and jumpers. The new Coliseum seats 6000 plus a Seventy-first Regiment Band concert and vaudeville acts from the New York Hippodrome company.
Ohio Secretary of Agriculture N E B Shaw and Fair Manager RE V state rumors of raised admission prices are false. The fair runs last week in August with a general adult fee of 60 cents and 25 cents for children under 12. Grounds admission after 6 pm costs 26 cents.
Recognition of war gardens in Ohio has been extended by the management of the State Fair and to encourage the work it has offered prizes totaling $1,282.
The Ohio State Fair features a premier turf program in late August with total purses of $11,500. Daily races offer at least $600, with $1,000 purses on most days, a $1,500 purse for Thursday’s three year old trot, and a busy vaudeville program between races. Ruth Law will perform twice daily along with a wide array of acts and a 40 member Seventy First Regiment Band concert.
Thousands of soldiers are expected daily during the last week of August at the Ohio State Fair. Soldiers sailors and marines in uniform will be admitted free at all times, under Fair Manager BE Walborn who urges maximum usage. Civil war veterans on Friday and children under 14 will enter free along with women, and the fair runs from Monday until 9 pm.
A dated plea signed Uncle Sam urges funds for the war effort. He references George Root and Ed Root's boy, appeals to families to cut waste and invest in Liberty Bonds, and stresses national sacrifice and allied resolve. He emphasizes unity, bravery, and duty to support soldiers and a peaceful world order.
Gloucester Mass reports an unprecedented salt mackerel price of 29.75 per barrel. Earlier midsummer peak was 27.10 per barrel and the advance has continued since then.
Boston officials ban public eating place sugar bowls for wartime efficiency. Each person may have at most one ounce per meal.
Verona California in Sutter county advertises for a postmaster or postmistress after repeated calls to neighboring towns failed to produce an applicant. The town seeks an eligible person to fill the town’s postal duties.
The Portland local advisory committee fixes coal at 10 dollars per ton for Portland and vicinity with a 4 percent discount on bills paid within five days.
Mitchell Indiana residents report relief from neuralgia and fatigue during pregnancy after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters to the company mention improved strength and overall health for mother and child.
In Nowise Playful the exchange shows Senator Sorghum denying political games. He says he never played politics and when entering a campaign he did not leave opponents with a fair chance, framing his efforts as serious and noncompetitive.
Dr Livingstone Farrand, head of the American commission for the prevention of tuberculosis in France, says mortality from tuberculosis in civilians and in armies during four years of war equals soldiers killed in battle. He plans to resume overseas work soon after returning to the United States for University of Colorado graduation exercises. He urges making the country healthy to secure democracy, noting 50 000 of the draftees were tubercular.
A note on guncotton asserts that properly purified material resists spontaneous combustion and remains stable for years. a separate aphorism about happiness remarks that true joy comes from unanticipated desires fulfilled.
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