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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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tele-gram before the 15th of April. The commit-tee has power to accept or reject any articleoffered. Photographs must also be provided,showing the carriages or other articles.There are other rules governing the Show.Neither prizes nor medals will be given. The advantage to exhibitors will be con-fined to the results of a competitive test,which will be made with great care.—Scien-tific American. The State Fair of Oregon (held at Salem)is trying a new plan this vear. The man-agers have realized the value of competitionin getting a good show, and have divided theState .into four sections, thvs creating con-siderable rivalry. Two men have been as-signed to each district, each of who— will re-ceive $50 fcr traveling expenses, and theyare expected to secure a creditable exhibitfrom their respective districts.!, The mineral exhibits at this Fair will hej unusually fine, as large premiums are of-( fered in this department. There will also1 be racing for three days, with $5,000 inV purses.
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MAIN BUILDINGS OF THE PHILADELPHIA EXPOSITION. It Mi n p m V ft1 i 10 The Philadelphia Expositionof J899, THE BILLBOARD. FAIR NOTES- For the Development of American Man-ufacturers and the Expansion ofOur Export Tradr.Of the numerous National and Internation-al Expositions ptojetted for the next tnreeor four years in different parts of the LnitedStates, the one to be held in Philadelphia inSeptember, October and November of thepresent y* ar is in many respects the mostimportant to the trade and commercial in-terests of the country* The Philadelphia Exposition of 1899 is anexposition for the development of Americanmanufactures and the expansion of our ex-port trade, and it will be the first nationalexposition of that character ever held in thiscountry. It is the purpose to exhibit at next falls IExposition every line of manufactured pro- ducts .of the United States, especially suit- :able for export. Such exhibits will form theprincipal department of the Exposition andwill comprise ever

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