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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

August 26, 1915 · Page 1 of 8

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INTERN AtionaL falls press Im Horsesatauction LADIES' BAND AT THE STATE FAIR GREATEST AEROPLANE ACT IN THE WORLD Farm and Draft Horses for Sale From 500 to 1000 head of horses constantly on hand, including large Draft Horses, Driving Horses, Delivery Horses, Farm Chunks, Farm Mares, Saddlers and Mules. Every hofse hitched and tried before sale. If you want one horse, a team or a & ZIMMERMAN BARRETT cometo Dnlutb Stables: Cor. 23d Av. W. & Superior St. Great Midway Horse Market, St. *3*1, Ssks p&rf J"-?? Private Sales Daily Auction Every Wednesday. Private Perhaps the greatest entertainment caught a side to the wind. A gust VISIT THE feature in America is coming to the caught it and the crowd groaned. It GIRLS TO STRIVE Minnesota State Fair, September 6 to seemed as though he was about to Organisation of 30 Pieces, Known MINNESOTA 11, in the person of Art Smith, the boy meet the fate of Lincoln Beachey. His Everywhere as On of Best is aviator, who now starring at the machine tumbled about in the wind Frisco Exposition. His contract there like a box-kite with the string cut. Bands of Kind, to Appear at State Fair»«Exposition FOR HIGH HONORS calls for a ten-weeks' stay, a very exceptional Over and over it flopped and rolled, Minnesota State Fair, Sept. then suddenly righted itself, and the engagement. 6 to 11—Six Other Bands Art Smith, called at Frisco the avfator with a long graceful glide, and Five Orchestras "King of the Air," does only extraordinary landed within ten feet of the starting things. Stunts performed by point." Also Booked. HAMLINE, MINN, Smith is only one of a very strong other aviators are scorned by him. He Championship Contest Conducted has turned more loop-the-loops in succession amusement program, supplementing A LADIES' band, the famous organization the heavy educational part of the fair. than any other airman, over at Minnesota State Fair to Midway Between of thirty pieces from thirty having been made at one time. Auto polo played by the teams that Determine Best Baker. Watertown, Minn., will furnish music MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL Nor does he loop-the-loop like others, made the game famous when it first at the Minnesota State Fair, September Tor his machine looks like a whirling appeared will be staged before the SEPT. 6 toll,1915 6 to 11, during the entire week. Every leaf on its way down to the ground. grandstand each day and evening. A Girl breadmakers from all over Minnesota person in the band, with the exception The peculiar "side-roll" performed by special automobile racing program, will attend the State Fair, September of the director, is a woman. In addition participated in by some of the worid's Smith's machine is distinctively his 6 to 11, to compete for the to this noted band there are six Minnesota is widely known for this splendid annual greatest drivers, will be held. Three own. breadmaking championship of the Other bands and five orchestras. Fully stages of nigh-class vaudeville will reinforce State. A very large attendance is expected Appears at Night. event and this year promises to out class a!f 850 persons are employed in these organizations the daily and evening card before by those in charge, and there Smith is master of a night performance former productions. to supply State Fair patrons the grandstand. Purses aggregating will be few counties unrepresented. which has never been attempted with music. A band or orchestra $24,500 will be competed for in The girls are to compete throughout by any other aviator. In it his afternoon EDUCATIONIAL AND AMUSEMENT is located at nearly every vantage a speed program in which some of the the week, and their work will b6 performance is repeated in the EXHIBIT FEATURES FEATURES point on the grounds. The feature best horses in America will take part. judged by the best specialists available. darkness, the gyrations in the air being Live Stock Show, Agriculture, Aviation— Battle in the band will be the Minneapolis Municipal City Destroyed. Valuable prizes will be awarded seen by means of a series of colwed Air—Horse Racing, Auto Fruits, Flowers and Band, said to be one of the highest Then, who is there who will be willing Racing by World Speed to the winners at the close of the lights, red, green, and yellow preSominating. Vegetables, Bees, Dairy priced bands in the world. to miss the destruction of the Kings, "Joan Newton week. In addition the Fair will pay Just before he turns his Products, Machinery, great scenic city each evening of the Cranio'' World's Champion one-half of the railroad expenses of last series of loops, Smith releases a Poultry, Dog Show, Lady Driver "Wa fair. Every instrument of death known 300 IN CONTEST each contestant. Girls will be quartered fireworks display, whirling over and School Exhibits, Art Show, of Nations" each night, to modern warfare will be used. The in the dormitories at the Minnesota Baby Show, Farm Boys Dver in a blaze of flying light. This Autc Polo, Vaudeville, "War of Nations," as it is called, is Agricultural College during the and Farm Girls Camps, act has stirred the amusement world Horse Show, Roller Coa^s, Extraordinary Entry in Pig Club Contest to occupy a scenic setting 450 feet Forestry, Liberal Arts, etc. er, "Ye Olde Mille" week under the care of Mrs. Margaret more than any other ever attempted. long, embracing over 30,000 square feet This Summer. and many others -equally as good Baker, Assistant State Leader of "On his opening day at Frisco," according of canvas painted in oil. Over 300 persons to an eyewitness, "Smith Boys' and Girls' Contest Work in Min* Frequent trains, good equipment?, will take part. The city will be nesota. eclipsed anything ever seen there. Over 300 boys and girls competing convenient service. Purcha^i a Belgian city. Looping the loop was a small part of round trip tickets and travel In the pig club contest conducted by To Tour Grounds. In anticipation of a night attack ways v.ia the Northern Paei/p.-*. his act. Rising he drove his bronzecolored the Minnesota Agricultural College are When not at work in the bread* trenches will be thrown up around th® biplane into the teeth of a 30mile Striving hard for a chance to show B. G. WHITNEY, Agent* making contest special tours will b« city, barbwire entanglements made, gale far out over the Golden their pig at the Minnesota Stare Fair, MINNESOTA & taken about the Fair Grounds under mines laid, wireless stations erected, Gate. Suddenly he seemed to lose September 6 to 11. The prize pig from the supervision of competent guides, gunpits dug and high-power lights located. control. His machine tumbled over each county is eligible to competition. INTERNATIONAL who will explain the educational exhibits Then suddenly a fleet of Zeppelins Und over, backward and forward. The Fair is to pay the transportation to them. Every effort will be and aeroplanes will appear in the Twenty-one times he looped-the-loop. charges on the pig to and from darkness, showering bombs upon the made to entertain the girls in a proper The crowd gasped. W. H. GEMMELL, the Fair Grounds, and feed the pig and way, and the best of care will be tak£n helpless city. The roar of heavy guns, Gen. Manager care for it during the week. As sixty Gasps. Crowd of them. Brainerd, Minnesota* the blinding flashes from armored automobiles, Bounties have organized to carry on "Then he thrilled everyone in earnest. and the bursting of mines A canning demonstration, in which the contest, it is probable that nearly He dropped his biplane to within the girls taking part in the breadmaking fill the air with an unearthly din. Th* that number of pigs will be shown. 1,000 feet of the ground. Suddenly it city is completely contest will compete for prizes, destrav eiL Prizes amounting to $200 will be will be conducted throughout the week, awarded, and the champion pig will to explain to Fair visitors the "coldpack" received a special prize of $30, in addition method recommended for home to a first prize in its class. use in the Northwest. All the principal The State contest is to close 9®ptetnber types of canners will be used in 1, in order to enable the winners the contest. In this way it is believed in each county to compete at the that a step will be taken to check, the Fair. Not only must the contestant enormous waste of fruit and vegetables raise a pig in the four months preceding during seasons of plenty and encourage September 1, but also an eighth of their conservation by cai* fcn acre of some forage crop to feed it. ning. In this wafv it is believed that the valu6 6f cheap forage in the production of pork will be emphasjzed. TERRIFYING SPECTACLE. If the champion pig is a Duroc-Jerley animal an extra prize of $100 in Warfare Vividly European Methods gold will be given by the National Fair. Portrayed at State Get this for Duroc-Jersey Record Association. If It is a Large Yorkshire the winner will The Northwest will never have receive a pure-bred hog of that breed better opportunity to become informed from Thomas Canfield, of Lake Park. regarding the fighting methods and The pig club exhibit is certain to what ails you! lighting machines of modern European prove one of the features of the Fair. armies than at the Minnesota State Fair, September 6 to 11, where "The MANY HOGS COMING. War of the Nations" is to be fought each night. This fireworks drama by Exceptional Entry of Swine Predicted the Thearle-Pain company is the most elaborate and vivid war spectacle ever by State Fair Officials. presented in the United States. In thrilling effects nothing was ever The swine show at the Minnesota attempted in pyrotechnics that compares 1 State Fair, September 6 to 11, promises Copyright 1912, a with it. It is presented on UST about as R. J. Reynolds to be one of the largest in the Tobacco Co mammoth stage 450 feet wide. Three entire country this year. There never soon as you hundred people are required in th® was a time when conditions were more cast. The drama depicts the destruction get next and promising, despite the fact that every of a town in the western fighting lucceeding year at Hamline has been area of Europe before the attack of an try Prince Albert ft record breaking one for hogs. enveloping army. The coming of the There have been twenty-three nomiDations tobacco you'll enemy is heralded by an aeroplane for the Poland-China Futurity. that scouts up over the horizon. An The prizes for this are $600, of which wise right up that aeroplane gun shells the stranger and $150 is contributed by the fair and puts it to flight. A little later, a flock $450 given by the American PolandChina it a a of aeroplanes and dirigibles swarms Record association. Only aniBials into view and opens afire of bombs for your taste! from Minnesota can be shown. upon the town. The long columns of The classes are for fall and spring And that's no the eoemy at the same time rush to Pigs, sows and boars. In the spring the assault. There is savage fighting Class there is a lot for litters of four. idle dream! in front of the trenches. Great cannons Wherever these futurities have been roar. Machine guns play streams Offered they have succeeded wonderfully of fire upon the hostile ranks. Shells in stimulating interest in swine burst incessantly. The town catches breeding, and Minnesota is very fortunate Line up in the row with other men red tin of P. A. that'll prove in jig time fire. The Gothic cathedral falls in to be able to hold one. ruins. Public edifices and homes go then you'll sure enough wake up to that you never did get such flavor and There are indications, according to up in flames. Soon the once prosper^ some pipe and cigarette makin's facts! William F. Hagerman, Superintendent fragrance, whether you hit a jimmy pipe FRINGE ALBERT ous town is a tumbled mass of wreckage pf Swine, that the swine show will It's this way: Costs you a dime for a tidy or roll up a delightful makings cigarette. in a blackened waste. lerve as a market this fall to a greater a In an interlude before the battle, •stent than ever before. It is an excellent dozen acts of high-class vaudeville are place to look over the best interpolated. After the fighting, two berds of swine in all the country, talk beautiful tableaux are staged. One •rith the owners, and gain information typifies "The Horrors of War" the regarding biood lines and breeds. other, "The Blessings of Peace." The Some of the best herds in the coun- performance closes with an exhibition IJT are located in Minnesota. of dazzling fireworks. the national joy smoke LARGE HEREFORD PREMIUMS. CUP FOR BEST HOGS. Puts the half-Nelson on all pipe and Right off the bat you'll get mighty happy if cigarette grouches because it can't bite you'll go to Prince Albert like you're on the Kxcellent Chance for Big Winning at Finest Beautiful Trophy Offered for tongues and can't parch throats. And trail of a best bet. For ycu never will get Minnesota State Fair. you prove our say-so P. A. is made by honest and true tobacco satisfaction till you Herd of Berkshires at Fair. get chummy with Prince Albert—the national a patented process that cuts out the bite Owners of Hereford cattle in Minnesota joy smoke! and the parch. This patented process is A beautiful silver trophy is to be will be able to compete for Remember controlled exclusively by us. given at the Minnesota State Fair, prizes aggregating $1,616 at the Minnesota Sold everywhere in toppy red bags, 5e that when you hear some of that "as September 6 to 11, to the Minnesota State Fair, September 6 to 11. pound tidy red tins, 10c aho in and good as P. A." stuff. The "White Faces," as they are qften exhibitor of the best herd of Berkshire half°poizTid humidors. Called, are so well adapted to a range hogs, consisting of one boar and three R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. or cut-over country that they are becoming sows. The American Berkshire association quite popular in this state. offers the cup. Animals farrowed The American Hereford Cattle club after September 1, 1914, are Offers $500 in prizes. Entries close li eligible to compete. Considerable 4ir.gTi.st 12. valry for this honor iS" Dredicted-