Officials Preview Ohio State Fair Plans for 79th Year
Ohio State Fair officials promise a broad program from August 26 to 31 with livestock from Vermont to Texas and Michigan, new amateur horse classes, notable horses like Laet offspring and Counterpart, extensive horse and dog shows, cat and cat shows, four demo features in the Woman s Building, a twelve attraction lineup, nightly Fire Festival, and top bands including Armco and All-Ohio High School Boys Band to drive a bigger fair experience.
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C. E. Rowland
Vermont
Texas
Michigan
Ohio State Fair
Laet
Carnot
Chicago
Kalamazoo
Peter Cowl
Toledo
City of
Columbus
Moores & Ross
Wilson
Clydesdales
Franklin County
Columbiana
Belmont
Montgomery
Pallenberg
Dennis Curtis
Wheeler
Camilo
The
Lucky Boys
Foster Girls’ Ballet
Winter Garden Review
Bee Star
State Fair High Lights World's Biggest Sheep Show
The notice highlights a large agricultural schedule featuring the $2,000,000 Livestock Show, Percheron Horse Show, Dog and Cat Shows, and modern farm equipment displays. It also previews entertainment including Festival of Fire, aerial acts, ballet, high wire, comedy, and several bands.
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America
Carlot
Speed Program Promises Big Staging at State Fair August
At Columbus Ohio the Speed Program promises a grand event August 26 to 31 featuring top trot and pace races led by notable stakes from the Manufacturers and Wholesalers Association and others. Auto races cap the Saturday finale.
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Columbus
Ohio
Manufacturers and Wholesalers Association of Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Deshler- Wallick
Secretary of State Pure
Fort Hayes Hotel
Pace
Director of Agriculture
Columbus Dispatch
Loftis Bros. & Co
Outdoors Exhibit Planned for Ohio State Fair Display
Plans for an extensive outdoors show at the Ohio State Fair August 26 to 31 feature Chief J W Thompson demonstrating the Division of Fish and Game work in restocking with game birds and fish life. Exhibits include pens of pheasants partridges wild turkeys ducks raccoons foxes deer bear and other game animals from Roosevelt Game Preserve and state game farms. Aquariums will hold bass catfish sunfish bluegills and other varieties. Outdoorsmen statewide are expected. the division will become the Division of Conservation with broader activities and a busy program of features.
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J. W. Thompson
Division of Fish and Game
Roosevelt Game
Fish and Game Building
Ohio
Fish and Game Division
Division of Conservation
Norfolk and Western Links Rail and Air Travel North to West
Norfolk and Western Railway joins with Transcontinental Air Transport to offer a train by night and ten-passenger tri-motored plane by day service from the Virginias and Carolinas to the West coast. The venture speeds transcontinental travel and signals progress in American transportation.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc
Virginias
Carolinas
West
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
French inventor Cros debuts acoustical device in 1877
Cros described a device for recording and reproducing acoustical vibrations to the Academy of Sciences in Paris in April 1877 but failed to gain interest or funds. Edison filed a preliminary patent in December 1877. The Ampere home near Lyons, France, is privately funded to be preserved as a memory of the electricity pioneer.
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Charles ‘Cros
Academy of Sciences
Paris
Cros
Edison
Ampere
Poleymieux
Lyons
France
Origins of common words and a beaver tragedy
The article traces word origins such as delirium from delare and vaccination from vacca while noting the quirky claim that quarantine once meant forty days. It also recounts a Maine beaver incident where a beaver was killed when a tree it felled trapped him like a steel trap after nobody discovered him.
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Hygela Magazine
Shagg Pond
Maine
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