Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NATIONS INCREASED FUNDS TO PARTICIPATE WHEN WAR WAS DECLARED IN EUROPE-SEE AMERICA FIRST IN 19 The opening of the Panama canal appeals to all the world. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition wl opens in San Francisco on February 20. 1915, and closes December 4, 1915, will be the greatest manifestation national achievement since the Declaration of Independence Within three weeks after the European war broke out the Argentine Republic, in view of the new trade a ®°? th Amencan increased its fund for participation in the exposition f $1,300,000 to $1 100 000; Holland Increased its fund from SIOO,OOO to $400,000 and ordered construction rushed i the superb Netherlands Pavilion, next to the Palace of Fine Arts. Japan, through Consul-General Numano at Francisco, asked for Increased exhibit space in the exhibit section and promised that the superb Japanese Pav« w!ll be completed in every detail upon the opening of the exposition. During the Japanese-Russian war .larmn n a splendid exhibit at the great Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis France cabled that there had bee. changes in her plans to take part in the exposition Thirty-nine nations will be officially represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The nat have appropriated huge sums for participation, China, for example, having appropriated SBOO 000 for the superb nese Pavilion, which is being rapidly rushed to completion. I" ." waTmorT.bTS ATTRACTIVE BOOK ON THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNAty per cent completed. TIGNAL EXPOSITION AND PANAMA CANAL MAILED FREE Thousands of Americans who - HV DSO”E book of sixtv pages, profusely illustrated in colors who have never toured the United A aad giving d tailed descriptions of the Panama-Pacific InternaStates will make the great circuit t ( aa . Exertion to held in San Francisco from February of the country with the beautiful 20 to December 4. 1915, and of the Panama canal and canal and colossal I anama-Pacific Inter- region, will be mailed by the Exposition free of charge to all inquirers, national Exposition as their objec- The booklet is intended for prospective visitors and will also contain nnTn^'k 1 in J 9ls - More than SSOO,- information concerning the great engineering feat which the Expo000,000 has been expended in Eu- sition is to celebrate. Write to the Manager, Bureau of Publications, Tope every year by American tour- Panama Pacific International Exposition, Exposition Building San ists, but next year the traveling Francisco, for booklet. world will ‘ See America First.”

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