Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — The Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition. [ARTICLE]

The Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition.

One of the most important events in the history of our country's wonderful growth and progress is the great Centennial Exposition which opens at Cincinnati on July 4 and lasts for one hundred days, or until October 27. Although the enterprise is called “The Ohio Valley Centennial Exposition.” or the hundredth anniversary of the settlement of the Northwest Terri-*-tory, it is really a national exposition in every sense, as every State and Territory is represented and will have splendid disslays5 lays of their productions and wares. 'he National Government has appropriated $150,000 to defray the expense of the Government exhibit ulone. Enormous cases from the Smithsonian Institution and other departments at Washington have arrived full of historical and art treasures of the capital and will be on exhibition. The area available for exhibition space in the several vast halls constructed especially for the occasion is nearly 550,000 square feet, besides nearly 100,000 more square feet for reception and restaurant halls. The works of art already on the ground for exhibition are insured for over $1,000,600. Cincinnati has uniformly been very successful with her expositions, but this year the public spirit and enterprise of her citizens have assumed national proportions and deserve national support.