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Title: Billboard (Jan-Jun 1899)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Billboard Advertising Co.
Subjects: Motion Pictures Film Industry Trade Magazine
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : R.S. Littleford, Jr., W.D. Littleford
Contributing Library: Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
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g exhibi-tions; the telephone, gas and electric light-ing companies taking a prominent part.Premiums for the biggest and best from anear of corn to a yoke of oxen created com-petition and enlisted the farmers active co-operation. Aside from the street show special exhi-bitions were held in various public places andbuildings convenient of access. Art depart-ments were thus instituted for the exhibitionof needlework, pictures, fancy china, curiosand old coins, etc. The town was fairly givenover, to the occasion. On the surface, wasthe g-amour of amusement and a good timeunderneath was a healthy current of businessand profit. George SJ. Buck, father of the free streetfair at Mattoon. was born in Jonesville,Mich., in 1S49. He went to Mattoon in 1864.reaching there with a ravenous appetite anda capital of 45 cents. To-day Mr. Buck is theleading business man of that city, a merchantand manufacturer ina large way. To him.more than to any other man, Mattoon owesthe success of its street fair.
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THE BftLfebARD 1§ A Little Corner of the Grounds, Looking Northwest frcm Judges Stand. A Montana State Fair. (Special Correspondence.)Another great enterprise is about to beaunched one in which not alone Montana,is interested, but the Pacific Northwest asweii. it has.passed the embryonic stage andis now presentable to the public. • It is the in-corporation of the Montana State Fair Asso-ciation, articles of which have been filed withthe Secretary of State and the Clerk and Re-corder of Silver Bow County. The caDitaistock is $50000 assessable and fully subscrib-ed. The objects for which the company isformed are as follows: ^ lb ,i,J,!!or^he encouragement of agriculture andhorticu.ture in the State of Montana: the ex-hibition of machinery and agricultural imple-ments; the exhibition of all farm productsfSf-K?: frn!ts-vegetables, poultry and floralexlnbits; for the exhibition of all metal andmineral and mining machinery and miningappliances; the exhibition of all fine artpainting, cut

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