As Mom and I worked our way through the HA &C building on Friday August 9th, I didn’t stop to catalog everything quite as thoroughly. I thought this prize-winning pillow was very cute with the big yellow boots..
The bottle on the right is from the United States Brewing Company which opened in 1899 and closed in 1900. It wasn’t around very long. The bottle on the left is “Coca Cola Soda Water” made in LItchfield IL in 1926. The middle bottle, manufactured in 1911, reads “Sanford’s Fountain Pen Ink. Easy flowing Green.” Why green, I wonder? In smaller print the label reads “This ink should not be mixed with any kind of color.” Curious. I wonder what would have happened if somebody had mixed the colors. Once again, why green?
It’s not so easy to see what all of these things are, but there’s a funeral notice for Miss Lena R. Morse, age 20. Under the tag it reads “Embellishments to mourning clothing and a mourning bracelet made from the deceased’s hair. 1881.” Gee. It must have been a very sad funeral.
I love this hot chocolate set and I want it. I can’t believe it only won second place; I have no idea which one captured the blue ribbon. On the card it says “This hot chocolate set was painted by my Great Aunt, Laura Long. Laura was my mom’s favorite aunt. I never had the pleasure of meeting her – she was born in 1872, died in 1950, and was buried in Warren County, Illinois.”
I have so many question about this – how did Great Aunt Laura learn hot to do such beautiful work? Where did she live, what did she do in her life? Such a beautiful set.
This says “Louis Marx Super Circus, 1940’s. My mother and aunt used to play with this toy when they were 6 & & years of age. This was their favorite toy.”
Hmm. It doesn’t look like much of a toy, does it? I’m hoping there must have been some kind of figurines what went along with it?
Ok,never mind, this is the first-place chocolate set. It is, indeed, fabulous, and the accompanying sheet about it is interesting. But I do have to say that the other one gets my vote because the exhibitor’s Great Aunt made it.
Thanks goodness I was able to copy and past the information about this set so I didn’t have to write it all out.
It is nice that this person wrote such and extensive history of the set. I love it that she got to have chocolate parties at the dining able with her grandma. Lucky girl.
And that wraps up the Hobbies, Arts and Crafts Building at the fair in 2024. More fair to come…
Ok then,
Mrs. October Hughes.