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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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"The Fair has passed into history. The vast buildings have
vanished."
-- Sam P. Hyde
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1
- Cleveland Day
- Baldwin flies "California
Arow" third time
- Lights dimmed at night due to coal strike
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2
- Columbus Day
- National Humane Society met
- Vassar Students Aid Association
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3
- Springfield
OH Day
- Mikado Day
- Igorot baby born in Philippine exhibit
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4
- Poultry, pigeon, & pet shows close
- Oregon Bldg. sold for $1,000, to Kirkwood MO
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5
- Ireland
Day
- Cincinnati
Day
- School
children get free admission in Nov.
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6
- Fair closed on Sundays
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7
- Flower Show (orchids & chrysanthemums)
- One-acre display in Palace
of Agriculture
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8 – Election Day
- American Flag Day - large flag over Plaza
- Flower Show (roses & carnations)
- Daytime fireworks
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9
- Range Cattle show
- Flower Show (carnation day)
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10
- Flower Show (cut flowers & seedlings)
- Range cattle show awards
- Roosevelt to visit Fair
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11
- Apple growers’ Conv.
- Cattle roping contest
- Wireless telegraph to a balloon demonstrated
- Pike cyclist leaps 28 feet
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12
- Railway Club meeting
- Wild West show in Livestock Forum
- Tyrolean Alps Day
- Miniature R.R. passengers robbed
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13
- Fair closed
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14
- Francola, French aeronaut, flies airship "Ville de St. Mande" on
200’ tether
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15
- U.S. Vice President
Fairbanks visits fair
- Brooklyn
NY Day
- Brazil Day
- French airship wrecks
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16
- Liberty Bell
departs –Ceremonies & parade
- St. Paul & Minneapolis Day
- U.S. Government loan repaid
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17
- Geisha girls & Chinese depart Fair
- Souvenirs and goods prices marked down
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18
- New Mexico
Day
- Galt, Ontario
wins Olympic football (soccer)
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19
- Missouri
Building burns
- United Irish League Day
- Queen’s Daughter Day
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20
- Fair closed
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21
- President’s Week
- College Week
- Georgia Infantry arrives to provide security
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22
- Millinery Traveling Men’s Day
- T.C. Benbow’s ‘Meteor’ flight attempt fails
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23
- Furniture removed from Administration Bldg. (lease expires 1 Dec.)
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24 – THANKSGIVING
- Festival Hall services
- Feast for 326 children at Model Playground
- Football game – Wash. U. vs. Haskill Indian
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25
- South Africa Day -Parade of Boer and British soldiers
- Merger of LPE Co. and MHS proposed
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26 – PRESIDENT’S DAY
- President Theodore Roosevelt visits - 163,758 attend
- United Irish League Day
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27
- Fair closed
- President Roosevelt spends restful day
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28
- Businessmen’s League banquet for National, State, and Foreign commissions
- Acrobat dies on Pike
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29
- Banquet for state commissioners held in unburned part of Missouri Building
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30
- St. Louis’ poor residents (of institutions) to be admitted free on Closing
Day
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DECEMBER 1
- CLOSING DAY
- David R. Francis Day
- 203,101 attend
- Palaces close early
- Closing Fireworks
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"Farewell, a long farewell to all thy splendor"
David R. Francis
December 1, 1904
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