The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914 Page: 8 of 8
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OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR AS AN EMPIRE BUILDER
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While thousands are shown here behind the Southwest’s biggest grandstand
at the Oklahoma State Fair 10000 are on the front side watching the
races and big acts
The eighth annual Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition Oklahoma City
September 22 to October 3 1914 will
be the one place to see Oklahoma and
the rest of thb country' at a glance
It 'will show all that Oklahomans
make or mine or grow It will gather
the products of Oklahoma's homes her
farrtiB ' her plants her ' waters her
mines and her industries within the
limits of one of the finest parks In this
section of the country
Ftom a small beginning in 1907 the
Oklahoma 'State Fair Add Exposition
which was Incorporated as a State
Fair on January 21 1907 just a lit-
tle less 'than eight years ago has
grown and increased Its power and
usefulness until now it Is recognized
as an empire builder second to none
in Oklahoma Through the agencies
of the State Fair the energies of the
people have been fused into a single
dynamic force contributing perhaps
more than any other one potentiality
to the material development and the
social economic industrial and com-
mercial advancement of the state of
Oklahoma
WORLD’S FAMOUS AUTO PILOTS
WILL CLASH AT TILE STATE FAIR
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LOUIS OISBROW
Chai-pion circular dirt track driver of the world who will thrill thousands at
the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition Oklahoma City on the last two days
The Oklahoma State Fair and Ex-
position race track which was the
battleground for half a dozen of the
world’s best auto ' race drivers last
year will again be the scene of gaso-
line battles this year that give prom-
ise of adding a new red letter chapter
to the history of' speed
Almost before wdrd had gone forth
from the office of Secretary I S Ma-
ban that a small fortune would be
hung out for auto races at the eighth
annual Oklahoma State Fair and Ex-
position Oklahoma City September
22 to October 3 Louis Disbrow the
world’s champion circular dirt track
king entered his name for all the
contests to which he may he eligible
The fifteen thousand spectators who
received thrills at the State Fair last
year— thrills that are still with them
when auto races are mentioned —
will not have to be remjuded that Dis-
brow driviug his Simplex Zip made
a mile iu 1 minute and 5 3-5 seconds
thereby creating a new world's rec-
ord for a half mile track
Encouraged by the remarkable time
made list year Disbrow says in a
letter to the management of the Ok-
lahoma State Fair and Exposition that
he has every reason to believe that he
can shatter ail prior dirt track rec-
ords during the 1914 auto meet on the
last two days of the State Fair
STATE FAIR FEATURES
Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition Oklahoma City
Opens Tuesday September 22 Closes Saturday October 3 1914
Thaviu’s world-famous Russian band for twelve days
Band concerts will include cabaret trio and tango team
New Brundage shows with high class attractions on the Midway
Better Babies Contest on enlarged scale this year
May Wirth the celebrated circus rider aud her family
Fifth annual Oklahoma Horse Show for five nights
Grand opera sextette and numerous band novelties
Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs will make record-breaking exhibits
Half a dozen of the Southwest's best permanent attractions
Powers’ eleplwmts for the first time in the Southwest
Football Oklahoma University vs Central State Normal
Pick of runners and harness racers will compete
Speed program includes Kansas and Oklahoma Futurity
Grand total premium offerings of more than $33000
Cash offered by various breeding associations $218100
Twenty-one separate and distinct departments with ttiree thousand
classes and about ten thousand prizes
Sixty big buildings located on 160 acres of ground
World’s famous auto drivers headed by Louis Disbrow
One immense building for display of automobiles
Four walls of main exposition building literally bulging
Team race for free-for-all pacers an added feature
The famous Hutchinson aeronauts every day for twelve days
More county exhibits than ever before and 1000 other agricultural
displays including imposing corn show
Twenty cash prizes for county displays and handsome oap
Boys’ Pig Club Contest now a permanent feature
State Fair BChool with its scholarship contests
Dairy demonstration contest for three consecutive days
New features arranged for the kindergarten and nursery
Special premiums offered In the culinary department
Live stock show superior to ail that have gone before
Machinery and farm implements covering many acres
Immense night program of world’B best acts including fireworks
Horses to J)p seen 700 cattle (all breeds) 800 swine fully 1000
Hummelstown Pike Considered
Model by Experts Built by Tel-ford-Macadam
Method V
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The Hummelstown Pike near Har-
rlsburg Pa has been considered by’
experts to be a model road It was
built in 1908 using the telford-maca-dam
construction native limestone
was used for the telford course and
Birdsboro trap rock for the top says
a writer In Northwestern Agricultur-
ist i
There are certain sections of this
highway that were flooded during a
cloudburst and the top surface
which was washed off the road was
replaced by grouting with "one part
cement and two parts sand
The road was built nine Inches in
depth five Inches telfordapd four la-
ches macadam course Shortly after
completion there were several surface
treatments of a light coaltar product
consisting of a mixture of water gas
tar cement liquid aephaltiM road oil
carbolic disinfecting powder aulphate
of copper and oil of wlntergrpbn The
sulphate of copper was used to pre-
vent the oils from becoming Ignited
and the wintergreen counteracted the
odors of the others A curious ef-
fect of the mixture was said to be its
disinfecting power there not being
a single contagious disease In that sec-
tion Unfortunately however this
does not appear to be lasting as at
this time four years after it was ap-
plied there is no evidence of this tav
product on the road
During the last season the main-
tenance department resurfaced an-
other section of this road between
Rutherford Subway and ' Swatara
Creek This work consisted merely of
placing about four Inches of crushed
stone upon the old roadbed and bind-
ing with sufficient screenings wetted
and rolled
EXPERTS MUST BUILD ROADS
Explanation of Failure of Authorities
Generally to Maintain ' Roads
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The astonishing results of a census
taken recently oh a secondary thor-
oughfare leading out of London
showed only 3 per cent of horse-drawn
vehicles The exact count was 15 ve-
hicles of the latter class to 500 ve-
hicles propelled otherwise than by
horses Herein lies both an explana--tion
of the failure of gmbliw authorities
generally throughout the world to
maintain roads and streets in good
condition and also a presentation of
the difficulties that road constructors
now confront
A similar- example of the extraor-
dinary change that has occurred in
the use of roads in recent years is
that of & furniture manufacturing con-
cern in Easton which delivers en its
own trucks in New York city Instead
of using the already-constructed steel
roads namely the railroads This con-
cern uses the ordinary roads A con-
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English Road Built to Last
siderqble tonnage is thus transferred
from the steel roads specially con-
structed to bear it to the country
road not constructed for any such
weight or friction It has thus come
to pass that the science of engineer-
ing which was called upon to furnish
experts to railroad companies is now
also called upon to furnish experts to
road-building authorities
The greater the pressure of ton-
nage the heavier the expenditure must
be on the structure that is to with-
stand that pressure whether it be
railroad country road or city street
Tankage for Hogs
Tankage is a product of the slaughtering-houses
It is a prepared food
cooked and steamed then dried and
ground Because it is so rich in pro-
tein it is very desirable for balancing
farm-raised feeds It has been dis-
covered that using one or two parta of
tankage with eight or nine parts of
corn not only gives better growth and
development to young hogs but brings
fattening hogs to a flnlah much quick-
er and cheaper
For Just a Moment to
Read this Advertisement
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It cost us money and considerable time in prepara-
tion and we feel sure you will be amply rewarded
for the time expended in reading - what we have to
say We think enough of your trade to bid for it
every week hr the year and we know you will save
money by doing all your trading at this store
Hot Weather Shoe Bargains '
Ladies slippers in patent vici and gun metal all best shapes 150 to — $350
Plenty of the Mary Janes in patent leather and white duck 150 to — 250
Mens low quarters all the new lasts as well as staple shapes 250 to 500
Mens shoes in all toes and leathers the dependable kind 250 to: 500
Ask to see our two big specials on shoes world beaters at 250 and 350
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Some Special Attractions For Men Folks
MEN’S SHIRTS
Men's shirts with or without collars
white cream’ checks and neat strip-
es all washable colors and dependa-
ble in size atv
50c to $150
Ask to see our Special shirts a big
winner at only
59c
MEN'S TROUSERS
We have a complete stock of wash
pants in pin checks and stripes at
$100 and $150
Work pants in khaki colors and the
browns at -
$100 to $200
Complete stock of dress pants wide
range of neat patterns including the
staple serges at
$250 to $500 ' ‘
SUMMER HATS
Complete stock of the fancy braid
and-plain straws in new high crowns
$150 to $300
Plenty of boys straw hats in the fan-
cy braids at
25c to $100
! New fur hats in the high crowns
three comer crease leading colors of
black blue and grey' at r
$200 and $300
'Stetson hats in the staple and fancy
' shapes at v
$400 to $650
Late Arrivals
New shadow laces 7 1-2 to 25c a
yard
New blouse or shirt waist cords
New beads
New fancy broaches
'New Valencennes laces
Plenty of fancy and plain para-
sols for big little old and young—
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Going Visiting?
If so let us sell you a new trunk or
suit case
Plenty of good well ironed
trunks at $15 down to
Complete stock of suit cas-
es and hand bags $1250 to
Good steamer trunks priced
at $1000 and '
$450
$100
$750
Smart New Corsets -for Stylish Women
We are sole agents in Duncan for the famous Royal Worcester
and Bon Tkm Corsets Have ail the new shapes for 1 the Slender
Medium and Stout figures Low and medium low busts made
lightly boned and adapted for the new costomes
Prices $100 to $500
Don't forget our New Location First Door West of
the First National Bank
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Where It Always Pays to Trade
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Sampson, Fred E. & Leeman, Ed J. The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914, newspaper, June 19, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1741983/m1/8/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.