Magnificent World Fair Parade Showcased Overseas Craft
A vast 1900s parade project drew on foreign workshops across England and Persia to assemble a global spectacle. It employed 1,280 people and 700 horses, featuring exotic vehicles, gold leaf carvings, Persian textiles, Turkish rugs, French-made costumes, Irish lace, and Japanese scarfs. The display aimed to top all prior pageants with unprecedented beauty and variety.
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Ivery
Salenca’ Ig
Persia
Turkey
France
Ireland
Fiage
Japan
Giant World Fair for Architecture and Education in Leipzig
The 1918 Leipzig exhibition will showcase architecture and building science, with sections on design, materials, sanitation, and social progress in trades. Applications for space are due October 1 1912, require a sketch and measurements, and space is limited by date order of submission.
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Yeatonet
Leipsio
Benefit Game to Help Fairmont Family of Late Lou Hunt
A monster benefit game will be played in Fairmont this Thursday between Clarkeburg and Fairmont teams to aid the family of Lou Hunt, late manager and pitcher for the club who was killed at work. The widow and five children are left penniless, and tickets are in high demand as funds are raised. Former local players now across the country are sending in checks for tickets and aiding in the effort.
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Fairmont
Lou Hunt
Bairmont
Clarkeburg
Fairmoht
Gas firm drills successful test on Gordon sand areas
Report notes Carnegie Natural Gas Company and Hope Natural Gas Company drilling in Harrison Hustead and C. B. Morrie farm regions respectively. Tests conducted on Gordon sand formations show producers in untapped pockets with early results from the J. B. Barratt Tarari and related sites.
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Shinn’s
Sardis Dlarrlet
Carnegie Natural Gas Company
Harrison’ Hustead
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United States Bureau of Mdu
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