Savage 1899 sold to “The Fair” in November 1913

**MrBojangles** · 02-04-2023, 07:49 PM

As per the attached factory letter. Any ideas as to what “The Fair” might refer to?

**Blue Avenger** · 02-05-2023, 12:32 AM

https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/1913-fair-merchanile-store-bonner-springs-kansas-calendar-artist-impression-4677/4331459

wild guess

**MrBojangles** · 02-05-2023, 09:09 AM

That seems like a fairly good guess. You might be right.

Any other suggestions?

**Model24** · 02-05-2023, 09:54 AM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Store

God help me, I do so love the interweb.

**MrBojangles** · 02-05-2023, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Model24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Store

God help me, I do so love the interweb.

I do believe that’s it!

How did you find that with such a common choice of words? I certainly didn’t.

I was more focused on trying to find a fair, maybe a World’s Fair from that era, but typing in The Fair didn’t bring that up readily.

**Model24** · 02-05-2023, 12:06 PM

I think I got lucky with “the fair” in quotation marks followed by <retail> on Safari. When I really care about finding something, I’ll do identical searches in Safari, Bing and Google.