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Twenty-third Annual Arizona State Fair

ARIZONA'S Twenty-third Annual State Fair, offering more than $25,000 in premium money, will be held November 7th to 12th, Secretary J. P. Dillon announced today. The grounds will be open from 9 a. m. until midnight, while all buildings will remain open until 9 p. m.

This year's State Fair will offer the greatest amusement and sport program ever attempted in the southwest. Five days of harness races with the fastest trotters and pacers in the west in action, auto races, on Saturday, football games, a dozen circus acts, airplane exhibitions, parachute jumping and a halfmillion dollar livestock parade on Tuesday of Fair Week, are just part of the menu to be dished up to visitors to the fair.

Sharing attention with the pretentious sport and amusement program will be more than 15 exhibition buildings and tents displaying Arizona's resources in every shape and form. The good part of the news comes in the early reports from the superintendents of all depart-ments that this year will be a recordbreaking one of all exhibits. Dr. Bartlett, in charge of the agriculture and horticulture departments, is the authority for the statement that not less than 10 counties will have farm products on display.

Fourteen departments will be represented at the State Fair: Cattle, dairy, swine, sheep and goats, poultry, boys' and girls' club work, apiary, fine arts, domestic art, domestic science, agriculture and horticulture, manufacturing, minerals and Indian. There will also be a specially arranged flower show, it was announced.

A grandstand program, one of the greatest in the history of the State Fair, will include the following acts and attractions: Amusements The World-famous Nelson Family, acrobats and wire-walkers who were featured with Ringling Bros. circus for five years; William Morris, clown bicyclist, featured on the Keith and Orpheum circuits; Joe Melvin & Co., diabolo and boomerang experts; Nathal, the man-monkey, the greatest foreign novelty of recent years; the Van De Velde Troupe, a company of picturesque singers and acrobats, and Mlle. Florence who performs daring stunts on a 75-foot high rigging.

A special added attraction will be Phoenix's own daredevil, John S. Shaw, Jr., who performs all sorts of crazy stunts on a slack wire. Shaw, who is a student at the University of Arizona, broke into the limelight July 27 of this year when he walked on a slack wire for nine hours, 20 minutes, in front of the Rialto Theatre at Los Angeles. He will present a new and novel stunt every day of the Fair.

Bernardi's Shows, with many new rides and attractions, will occupy the big gladway.

The C. W. Mayse aerial circus will present daring stunts, such as changing from one plane to another, jumping from an airplane to an auto and also parachute jumping.

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