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Excerpt from Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897 When the United States undertakes to supply ways and means to aid any public enterprise of national importance, it is never niggardly or ineffective in its work. For the Tennessee Centennial Exposition it has done a great part. The provision by Congress for the admission, free of duty, of goods from foreign countries intended for exhibition, and. The transmission by' the Department of State of this information to all foreign governments, was the inducement that led many of them to participate. The' result of this is seen in the foreign section of the Com merce Building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.