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World’s Fair Gates Open in St Louis Opening Day
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens with President Roosevelt touching the electric button to start the machinery as Taft attends. crowds flood the grounds. A five-division Pike Parade follows with diverse groups, bands, ships, animals, and village displays, amid ceremonies at the monument and formal remarks by dignitaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David R. Francis
United States
St. Louis
Missouri
Bates
Fairyland
Ivory City
Roosevelt
Washington
Grand Plaza
Louisiana Purchase Monument
Fair
Grand Cascades
The
Earth
Atte
Whit
William H. Taft
Jefferson Guards
Cummins
E. W. Handlan
McGarvie
Gregg
Hale
Galveston
Battery Abbey
Old Plantation
CM Dwellers
Jim Key
Marshal Stone
Magle
Marshall Gaston Akorn
Moving Pictures
Solomon’s Temple
the Ozarks
Seville
Irish Village
Asia
Empire of India
Alps
Marshal Viljoehn
Water Company
New York
North Pole
Francis
Frank W. Gunsaulus
Chicago
Exposition Company
BEC. OF War
William H Taft
Taft
White House
Supreme Court
Senate
France
Gulf of Mexico
Dominion of Canada
Missiseippi River
Rocky Mountain Range
Louisiana Purchase Territory
Mississippi Valley
Spain
Louisiana
Paris
North America
Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Montana
Louisiana Parchage
Urgo
SS Louis
Grand Basin
St Louis