Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — St. Louis Fair Incorporated. [ARTICLE]

St. Louis Fair Incorporated.

Articles of incorporation for the World’s Fair, to be held in St. Louis In 1903, to celebrate the Louisiana purchase centennial, were filed in the office of the recorder of deeds at St. Louis. Similar papers were filed later with the secretary of state at Jefferson City. The capital stock is 86,000,000, of which $5,000,000 is subscribed and $500,000 paid up. At the Planter’s hotel, St. Louis, a banquet was given by the Business Men’s league, In honor of the national committee, and to celebrate the passage by congress of the World’s Fair bill.