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Identifier: dedicatoryopenin00worl (find matches)
Title: Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Stone, Kastler & Painter
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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OPENING TfiB EXPOSITION. THE CEREMONIES ON MAY 1st, WHEN PRESIDENT CLEVELAND STARTEDTHE MACHINERY. AT 12:20 oclocK, on May 1, 1893, President Cleveland touched the electricbutton which set in motion the machinery, and signalized the opening of theWorlds Columbian Exposition. That single touch of Grover Clevelands finger did a million things. First itmarked on the page of history the beginning of another epoch in the life of man—theplanting of civilizations center within the interior of America. It transmitted by themagic current of electricity the motion which opened the valve of the greatest ofengines and breathed life into the cylinders and wheels of that monster industrialservant. It loosened the throats of a hundred steam whistles, and caused fire andsmoke and mighty reverberations to belch from the guns in the harbor. It filled theivory horizon with 800 flags and streamers from the roofs and towers of the surround-ing palaces as if they had all been geared to the same unfurling

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookcontributor:Allen_County_Public_Library_Genealogy_Center
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