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Show HECOBD-BREAKINGr CEOWD. Attendance at Fair Thanksgiving Day Unusually Large. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24. Thanksgiving day being tho last holiday beforo the close of tho exposition, was taken advantage of and the attendailco will probably bo found to have been of the record-breaking class whon It is totalled up. The crowds started early and for sovcral hours long lines of visitors sti etched from each entrance slowlv filing fil-ing through the turnstiles. The heavily leaded streot cars constantly poured out a stream of visitors, particularly at tho main entrance, and the forenoon had well advanced before the crowds at the gates had thinned down. Inside the grounds Thanksgiving dinners were served ln many of the State buildings to Invited guests and In other buildings and exercises exer-cises commemorative of tho ocaslon were held In Festival hall. |