Drumming up interest in the Corn Palace was town-to-town task in 1920s
Caravans in the mid-1920s were meant to build excitement for the Corn Palace Festival Written By: Marcus Traxler | × Billed as "The West's Wonder Show," the 1926 Corn Palace Festival was advertised in a Sept. 25, 1926 edition of The Mitchell Evening Republican. The advertisement is part of the Carnegie Resource Center's collection on the Corn Palace. (Marcus Traxler / Republic) EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the current Corn Palace building, which opened in 1921. Interest in the Corn Palace Festival in the 1920s was hel...
Source: mitchellrepublic.com