Changes at State Fair Grounds Highlight 1926 Exhibition
Visitors to the 1926 State Fair of Texas will see a new street linking Implement Row with the livestock department and carnival attractions relocated below the race track grandstand. Twelve big acts travel daily free before the grandstand, congestion on Amusement Row eases, and concrete paving and walks appear around Gaston park, Spanish Village and the Fine Arts building. Free band concerts and daily attractions including Princess Flavia headline each night and matinees on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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Dallas
Livestock Department
Gaston Park
Spanish Village
Thavin
Ralph Emerson
Chicago
Flavia
MONK SCOPES TRIAL CHIMPAGO TO PERFORM AT STATE FAIR
Napoleon the five foot simian from Morris and Castle vaudeville to appear at the State Fair of Texas Dallas October 9 to 24. Brought to Dayton Tennessee by Clarence Darrow during the monkey trial with William Jennings Bryan, the chimpanzee is billed as a top act of education and vaudeville with a long film and stage career.
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Napoleon
Texas
Dallas
Dayton
Tenn
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Hours to Remember at State Fair of Texas
The State Fair of Texas in Dallas presents Princess Flavia with show times from October 9 to 24. Audiences may attend matinees at 2 30 on Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays and evening shows at 8 15 each day.
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Texas
Flavia
Dallas
Broadway Favorites in Princess Flavia at State Fair
Howard Marsh and Evelyn Herbert headline a 200 member Shubert company bringing the operetta Princess Flavia to Dallas for the State Fair October 9 to 24. Romberg will direct opening night with matinees Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 2 15.
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Evelyn Herbert
Howard Marsh
Princess Flavia
State Fair of Texas
Dallas
Miss Herbert
Flavia
New York
Mr. Marsh
Prince
Messrs. Shubert
Texas
Anthony Hope
Zenda
Princess Favia
Hope
Ruritania
Harry B. Smith
Sigmund Romberg
Romberg
Southwest
the Prince
Prince’ Company
Princess
The Psychology of Ghosts by Wesley Peacock
An essay on fear and instinct explores why animals and humans shy from imagined threats, the clash of imagination and will power, and the persistence of inherited and learned ghosts shaping behavior and dreams. It argues fear can be tempered by love and faith, but ghosts lodge in the subconscious and affect actions.
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Wesley Peacock
You
Hell
Composer Directs Opening At State Fair Dallas
The composer of Princess Flavia will personally direct the opening performance of that operetta at the State Fair of Texas in the Auditorium Dallas on Saturday evening Oct 4. Princess Flavia remains the Auditorium attraction through Oct 24 during the 1926 fair.
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Ralph Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Auditorium
Texas
Dallas
Princess Flavia
The Best of Working People Get Liver Ailment
An advertisement urges working people who feel languid and blue to take Herbine to purify the system and restore health. It notes the medicine boosts aim and ambition and offers 60 cents at J. L. Kirkpatrick, a druggist.
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J. L. Kirkpatrick
Goodyear
Sequoia Nation al Park Red Wood Story
A Detroit News remark notes the 900 year growth of a redwood in Sequoia National Park and mocks a smoker with a pointed jab about a chump.
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Forest of Sequoia National Park
Detroit News
President Coolidge and Hands Off Policy Viewpoint
An Ohio State Journal note asserts President Coolidge favors a strict hands off approach as the right policy, reflecting a restrained presidential stance.
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Coolidge
Ohio State Journal
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Scopes
Monk
State Fair
Whitewright
Ueen Vaith
Sd Vea
Meee
Supreme Paramount Poultry
Wonder Woman's
A. C. T. C. Horse
Shubert
Thavia
Lew Rall
New Fall Ginghams
Celina
Jacksonville
Huffines & May
Mitchell Burr
J. M. Sturdivant
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