The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-07
BABY SHOW TO Be
GIVEN BY AID CLUB
THIS AFTERNOON
Crowd at Home Products
Exposition Last Night
Estimated at 5000.
Arab Patrol Drills

The Home Products exposition under
the auspices of the Birmingham Ad club.
VIII have for its main attraction this aft
ernoon baby show. Every Birmingham
mother is invited to be present and the
presence of baby with her will be in it
ser ticket of admissions. Babies up to
years old will be eligible for the con-
test. There will be no Judges to pass
upon the relative merits of the babies in
! the contest. Instead each baby will he
numbered and the numbers shaken to-
gether in box, from which one of the
cards will be drawn. The baby possess
ing duplicate of the number drawn will
| be declared the winner.
ihere VIII be 10 awards, as follows:
tTst. socart. valued at $l2 donated by
oster Brothers; second and third. saw
ings accounts of s. each, presented by the
American Bank and Trust companv:
fourth, solid gold ring for baby. given by
F. w. Bromberg; fifth Roberts & Son
will give 100 engraved cards for baby
with the plate from which they were
| made; sixth. one-pound box of inertia
| chocolates, given by the \, b. C. COM
pany; seventh. eighth, ninth and tenth
a half-pound box of inertia chocolates
presented by the A. II. c. company.
The crowds in attendance last night at
the exposition was the largest that has
| yet been ON hand. 1t was variously esti-
| mated at from 000O to 1000
| The Arab patrol of the Zamora temple
was the main attraction and seldom be-
| fore IN Birmingham was there
! seen such drllin. Jack Biddle is
| captain of the Arab patrol and his men
show that they have been trained I'm an
a. rt mo
of the most difficult drills known to the
| United States army and for good measure
did great many stunts" that the regu-
| lar army never dreamed of
| After the Arab patrol had completed its
tine exhibition the drawing for presents
was made The awards numbered five
and were First, box of engraved mono
gram stationery, from Roberts & Son,
second, two boxes of NJ. f. r. cigars
presented by the Cuban Cigar company:
| third six months subscription to the
| Birmingham Ledger; fourth, three pounds
| of Royal Cup coffee. donated by the Bat
| terton Coffee company; fifth, five gallons
| of jackson water, given by the Fowlkes
q Myatt Grocery company The holder
| of No. 2l95i won the first present but
did not claim ii. The award is being
| held at the exposition offices in the Gipsy
Smith auditorium. No. VI ,9O2 won the
| third award and that also Is being held
| Aoi d cidilndHl. Inc second present
taken by fifth award. The fourth award
was taken by C. e. Nored
| Tonight is amateur night and John Spar
| row of the Ad club assured the crowd
last night that something great was in
store for them. The prizes tonight Will
| number six. For the first prize the Bir-
mingham Mattress company offers the
| holder of the lucky number his choice of
| an Ideal Down or Dixie Felt mattress:
| the second six months subscription to
The Birmingham Age-Herald; third, three
pounds Royal Cup coffee presented by
| the Batterton Coffee company; fourth
| five gallons jackson water, given by the
! Fowlkes &c Myatt Grocery company; fifth,
large cake, presented by the Highland
bakery of the American Bakeries-Candy
company; sixth, large tin of crackers,
given by the American Bakeries-Candy
| company.
| The admission today and tomorrow, the
! closing days of the exposition will be
! only cents to children, high school pupils
| included. 1t was announced last night
that it would be rn>ossible to decide the
winner in the story contest, which closes
Saturday night. but Mr. Sparrow assured
| the crowd that the result would be print
| ed In all the daily papers early next
week. A special committee will be ap-
! pointed to pass on the stories submitted.