Billboard advertising (Mar 1897)

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BILLBOARD ADVERTISING. K. C. t«wia, Director General of the Tennessee Centennial, is working a splen- did advertising scheme. Every trades or- ganization, secret society and political or- ganization receives from him a personal letter inviting them to convene in Nash- ville during 1S97. His letter is supple- mented by one each from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce; Wm. M. McCart- ly, Mayor ot Nashville; Geo. W. Stain ■ back, Chairman oF the Board of Public Work of Nashville; Nashville City Coun- cil ; the three daily papers of Na and the Governor of the state, Hon. ?. Turney. They are all fiiled-in letters but seldom, if era, detect it. It make/quite of no other paper which is one half so val- uable to the secretary of a fair. Weekly, J4.t» per annum. Sa Address Turf, Field i Building, New York. Herman Justi is chief of the bureau of Publicity and Promotion (whicb, beingin- it) of The annual meeting ol the Coshocton County grleultunl society, was held Jan Itw officer, were elected- The by $na.no. Coshocton is one of a very NBV RUNNING TRACK. V. O. Parmer it the Head of a Cat W. O. Parma, Capt Jack Price, to- gether with a number of other noted turfmen, have purchased I Park, of Detroit, a purpose of ci Mr. Parmer, who it to be the general manager and secretary of the course, is now at Detroit, superintending the improvements of the park property. will spend feo.ooo on the undertaking is backed wealth; Detroit men, and is to be the Tennessee Centennial. There is but one change in the official roster of the Bay State Fair, at Worcester, Mass., that is of President, Mr. Warren C- Jewett having been elected. The date of the 1897 meeting of this association has not yet been decided, but will be the first week in September. Mr. John B. Bowker is still secretary of tion, and with his well known enterprise and executive ability there can be no doubt of flattering success for the 1897 _ of the Ohio Valley Fair Circuit, was held at Cbillieothe, Monday, and decided upon the dates of ' be held in the different towns The following delegates were present: Mr. Z. Taylor Sturgeon, Lancaster; Ad. C of Newark; R. C- Mallow, of Washington C H.; Edgar F. Draper, of Portsmouth; James K. Fitzgibbon, of Newark, A. E. Seymour, of Newark; J. size of her appropriation for the Center* Cbas.F. Ansell, 1 S3 Washington Street, Chicago, Ills., prints all kinds of tickets and tags for fairs and expositions. Col. E. Daniel Boone, the lion I The Globe Ticket Co., of Philadelphia, mate a specialty of muslin banners for faiis. Col. A. B. de Frece, of New York City, has managed more than one hundred fairs, which have brought in not less than (3,000.000. The Donaldson Litbo. Co., of Cincin- nati, are the largest printers of fair pos- ters in the world. eil-something that wit] outdo Die Eiffel Tower. For her 1900 Exhibition, a City ■ ■■' Gold is to be constructed, which will illustrate Hie whole history of gold, and contain replicas of famous golden objects, such as the golden calf, the golden bug. and Atalunta's golden apples. Thefeefor inlering this city will surely be a golden • "in, and the public will no doubt repay themselves by chipping off bits of the P*ten walls. H subscribe for Ti,rf, Field a«d Farm, ey ore missing a good thing. We know