The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-28
A SERVICE DEPT.
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Much Machinery VIII Be Dis
played at Free Fair.
Manufacturers and Retailers
win Join in the Big Show.
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TO COVER FIFTEEN ACRES
Every Make of Motor Car Will
Be Exhibited Here.
Special Display of Machinery
for the Farmers Use.

The department of mutual service
would be a more appropriate name for
machinery field at the Kansas Free
Fair
Fifteen acres filled to Overlooking
with all conceivable kinds of modern
mechanical contrivances and labor
saving devices and including one of
the biggest automobile shows in the
state Is worth a visit from practically
every man and woman in Kansas. AT
the rate the space is being taken up
now it is evident that additional room
will be required to handle the large
number of exhibits when the 1922
Free Fair opens September IL. And
Ii wiH all be free to the visitors.
Many Exhibitors This Year.
Manufacturers and retailers thru
out the country are coming to realize
more and more the great value of ex-
hibiting their products at machinery
field, from an advertising standpoint.
And with this gigantic array of ma
chinery gathered into a compact space
and with demonstrators at his COM
mand, the prospective purchaser has
an advantage he would never obtain
otherwise.
y The man who intends to purchase
a motor car, for example, will find
under the wide roof of Motor Hall
nearly every make of machine used in
this section of the country. He may
inspect them infinitely, from the hum
Bile Ford to the luxurious Rolls
Royce. Attendants will be on hand
10 explain in detail the performance
and construction of each car. Spe-
cia1ly constructed models will demon
strate the operation of every work
ing part. One may take all the time
one desires in looking 'em over and
in weighing one against the other and
at length arrive at the particular
make or design which best suits his
fancy and his pocketbook. Such a
course of inspection, thru the ordf-
nary channels, would require months,
If it could be made at all, and then
with only partially gratifying results.
For the farmer or merchant with
an eve to commercial possibilities
there will be on exhibit various kinds
of trucks which may be examined at
leisure. Even if one does not intend
to purchase within a year, or longer,
a thoro visit in motor hall will serve
as an education that might some time
prove invaluable.
Exhibits for Farmers.
For the farmer there will be trac-
tors of various makes; threshers and
shredders. piOws and listers, farm
heating, lighting and water plants.
power plants and other electrical de-
vices; silos, wire fencing. wagons,
trucks and every imaginable kind and
make of farm machinery. For the
housewives inspection there will be
stoves and furnaces. bathroom fixtures,
furniture, draperies, light fixtures,
washing machines and a thousand and
one other articles found in the home.
When one gets thru inspecting this ex-
hibit, especially those particular arti-
cles the purchase of which is cOntenn-
plated. one should have a very good
idea what to order when one gets
home.
And then. there is a scientific side
to machinery field. Each year the
very latest productions are exhibited.
They show the progress the country is
making each year in mechanical lines
and this is a mechanlcar age. Every
one who is mechanically inclined,
whether or not he contemplateS the
purchase Of anything, will thoroly en-
soy a visit TO machinery fie1d-and
win be made welcome.