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 helped by word of mouth and through advertising handbills. But Mitchell leaders also got on the road to get the message out.