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The Exposition Stanford is attending is the Centenary Exhibition of American Methodist Missions. Here is an excerpt from a summary on the Ohio History Central website:
The Centenary Celebration of American Methodist Missions was a Protestant missionary exposition held in Columbus, Ohio at the State Fairgrounds, in June and July 1919. Over one million people visited the three-week fair as representatives from the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church -- South, and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church transformed fairground buildings into international pavilions. The buildings represented the work and progress of missionaries from countries such as China, India and Africa. The eight large pavilions included hundreds of cultural artifacts and featured live exhibits of Christian converts, reconstructed homes of distant lands, the latest advances in technology for the local church, and a midway complete with a row of Methodist restaurants.Below is a poster used to advertise the event:
It's low resolution, so a little hard to see, but there are representatives from the countries where the missionaries were based--China, India and Africa. They seem to be towing a globe upon which is written "Bringing the World to Columbus, June 28 - July 7, 1919." Interesting . . .
As for Mrs. Barr's place at 388 14th Ave, I've found a group of Barrs at that address in the 1919 Columbus City Directory. One of them is May, who is a widow and a clerk at the Vital Statistics office for the state. She must be the Mrs. Barr to whom Stanford refers. There is also Mabel, a stenographer, and M. Robert, a bookkeeper, her children, no doubt. The 1920 census also gives similar information, but by then M. Robert has left, and there is a daughter Roberta, who is 11. Mrs. Barr may be someone the Clossons knew, or she may simply be someone who had an extra room to rent for the Exposition.
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