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Newspaper
The Randall County News
Location
Canyon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
6
The Texas State Fair allocates 125000 for improvements plus 105000 by the fair association and 20000 by Dallas for park and grounds upgrades. Livestock shows begin October 19 with premium pools totaling over 90000, and a new tickler ride costs 15000 as Parker Amusement Company plans a two acres multifaceted exhibit including an Oriental city.
The Texas State fair in Dallas plans large investments for the amusement park for the twenty third annual meet from October 17 to November 1. Improvements will transform the grounds into a fairyland lit by thousands of incandescent lights and featuring unusual attractions for patrons seeking both instruction and amusement.
Alex Sanger reports the Dallas fair’s art department plans a superb show for the 1908 meet from October 17 to November 1. Julian Onderdonk notes East artists will lend about 100 paintings valued near 500 900, with Robert Henri Francis Murphy Robert Vannah Gustave Cimmiotti Jr and Onderdonk among those represented.
Fragmentary dialogue shows tension between two groups as they debate whether their corking laugh producers should deliver real jokes or real money. The exchange hints at a staged comedy or promotional setup with emphasis on value and entertainment.
After several days without food the pain of hunger fades and the craving dulls. In advanced starvation the senses dull, pain vanishes, and the mind slips into incoherence and sleepless delirium.
Frank H. Leonard of Brooklyn and First Church of Christ Scientist Boston spoke to a crowded opera house audience last night on Christian Science as a demonstrable religion.
Local ads offer cattle bills of sale and trade for butchered beef, cleaning services, flour sacks, lard cans, and new velvet collars. Property sales include two houses and lots and alfalfa land near town. Canyon Mercantile pays top prices for butter eggs and produce and a well established trade seeks land investment or half interest. Box 67 McKinney Texas.
A short health advisory notes that nighttime measures may help prevent illness and recommends keeping a box of medical supplies in the home. It mentions carrying a full line of products available for purchase.
For sale notice describes a well improved house with good water and favorable location. It requests inquiries to The News man and notes area code 24-If.
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