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Story September 6, 1934

The Sauk Centre Herald

Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota

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Minnesota's 75th Diamond Jubilee State Fair announces record 35,000 exhibits across departments including livestock, club work, arts, and machinery. Entertainment features a new wrestling card with athletes like Jim McMillen and Abe Kashey, plus racing and trapshooting. Innovations include modernistic lighting and a new fountain.

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Thirty-five thousand individual exhibits and displays-an all time record-will be installed and ready for inspection when the gates open for Minnesota's Diamond Jubilee State Fair, Saturday, announces Raymond A. Lee, secretary.

Record entries are reported from virtually every department, and visitors to the 75th annual Exposition, will see exhibits and entertainment comparable to any program in world's fair history. More than 6,000 head of cattle, horses, sheep and swine; 1,600 boys and girls in club work; 5,000 exhibits of household arts; record displays in the school exhibits, fine arts, machinery, poultry, bee and honey, agricultural, horticultural and machinery departments- combine to make this year's Jubilee Exposition the greatest ever.

Adding of a five-star wrestling card to the entertainment program gives sports fans an unusual variety of events, including auto, harness, running and motorcycle racing; the Northwestern Class Championship Trapshooting tournament and a parade of the leading grapplers.

Jim McMillen, former Illinois grid captain and team mate of Harold "Red" Grange and Abe Kashey, the villain of the mat, will meet in one of the wrestling bouts in the Hippodrome the final evening. Cliff Olson, former Gustavus Adolphus athlete, and Roughhouse Joe Cox, of Cleveland, also will tangle. Milo Steinborn, strong man of Germany, and Tony Catalino, Boston Italian; Vincent Lopez, University of Idaho basketball star, and Mike Nazarian, Little Rock Armenian, and Barney Cosneck, of the U. of Illinois, and Frank Topaz, of St. Louis, are scheduled in the other contests on the card. It will be the Fair's first wrestling show.

Another innovation will be the new-modernistic lighting system that has been installed to illuminate the new park. Features will include a new fountain which is a part of the $130,000 improvement project and is located in the park adjacent to the Conservation building. Painting with light by means of intricate color combinations will make it the finest in this part of the country. Other highlights are the Avenue of Flags leading from the new entrance to the Grandstand indirect flood-lighting of the dome of the Horticultural building, and the installation of more than 100 white lights in various sections of the grounds.

What sub-type of article is it?

Historical Event

What themes does it cover?

Triumph

What keywords are associated?

State Fair Diamond Jubilee Exhibits Wrestling Lighting System Livestock Entertainment

What entities or persons were involved?

Raymond A. Lee Jim Mcmillen Abe Kashey Cliff Olson Roughhouse Joe Cox Milo Steinborn Tony Catalino Vincent Lopez Mike Nazarian Barney Cosneck Frank Topaz

Where did it happen?

Minnesota

Story Details

Key Persons

Raymond A. Lee Jim Mcmillen Abe Kashey Cliff Olson Roughhouse Joe Cox Milo Steinborn Tony Catalino Vincent Lopez Mike Nazarian Barney Cosneck Frank Topaz

Location

Minnesota

Event Date

75th Annual Exposition, Saturday

Story Details

Record-breaking exhibits and displays across departments including livestock, club work, household arts, school, fine arts, machinery, poultry, bee and honey, agricultural, and horticultural. Entertainment includes wrestling card with Jim McMillen vs. Abe Kashey, other bouts, racing events, trapshooting, and innovations like modernistic lighting system and new fountain.

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