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Oldsters who first beheld a Ferris wheel and an electric light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from...
A crowd of 70,000 waiting in the stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris...
The report condemns the use of two-level streets, and underpasses at street intersections, and suggests the restricting of all foot traffic to second-story arcades. The extended use of mechanical parking garages was felt to be the most economical automobile parking solution. A new invention, the Vertical Parking Machine...
The Veiled Prophet. In St. Louis last week, red, orange & blue buntings draped six miles of streets. Nineteen ornate floats passed through depicting "The Romance of Trade & Industry." In the most ornate of all sat the 52nd Veiled Prophet with his queen. Led by a platoon of mounted police the...
Died. Ferris Luce Hartman, 71, old-time trouper in The Wizard of Oz, The Mikado (in the U. S. premiere of which in 1885 he played the title role) and other light operas; of illness brought on by starvation; in San Francisco, a few hours before a performance for his...