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    The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa in August. It began in 1854 and has been held on the Iowa State Fairgrounds since...
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    California Exposition and State Fair Police Iowa State Fair Police Minnesota State Fair Police Department Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department A...
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    Iowa (/ˈaɪ.əwə/ EYE-ə-wə) is a landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and...
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    The butter cow has been an Iowa State Fair staple since 1911, when J.K. Daniels created the first cow. The popular exhibition, which consists of hundreds...
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  • versions were set at the Iowa State Fair, the 1962 version was set in Texas (the family drives through Dallas where the State Fair of Texas is held). It...
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  • a farming family, the Frakes, and their three-day adventure at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines in 1946. While parents Abel and Melissa are hoping to...
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    at fairs in the US; among them, the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Texas, the South Carolina State Fair, the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, and...
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    Jack Lamberson House at 511 North Park Avenue. Oskaloosa hosted the Iowa State Fair in 1858 and 1859, prior to the Civil War. In 1934, Oskaloosa became...
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    The film tells the story of a farm family's multi-day visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the parents seek to win prizes in agricultural and cooking competitions...
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  • Frake family is getting ready for the Iowa State Fair – each with their own hopes for the trip ("Our State Fair"). Father Abel (Charles Winninger) tends...
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  • The Iowa State Fair Straw Poll is an informal poll for presidential and Iowa congressional candidates. The poll has been conducted by the Iowa Secretary...
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  • State Fair is a 1932 novel by Phil Stong about an Iowa farm family's visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the family's two teenage children each fall in...
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  • exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 28, 1931. J. L. Potter supervised the project. At the conclusion of the Iowa State Fair, the television...
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    62miles Iowa Iowa State    The IowaIowa State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry game between the Iowa State Cyclones and Iowa Hawkeyes...
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    650 in 1847. The city was the site of the first and second Iowa State Fairs. The first fair was held October 25–27, 1854 on 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land surrounded...
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    and have become a Fair tradition. The first butter cow in Iowa was made by sculptor John K. Daniels at the 1911 Iowa State Fair. The sculpture was sponsored...
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    The Iowa State Fairgrounds is located on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa. It annually hosts the Iowa State Fair in late summer. The state fair was begun...
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    Reggie, a Red Wattle Hog, set the record at the Iowa State Fair. "He posted a new Iowa State Fair record weighing in at 1,335 pounds." Wikimedia Commons...
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    Caitlin Clark (category Basketball players from Des Moines, Iowa)
    broadcast. In August 2023, the Iowa State Fair unveiled a life-size butter sculpture of Clark. She was one of three Iowa college athletes, alongside former...
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    the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 492,401. It is Iowa's most populous county, and home to over 15% of the state's residents...
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  • Butter (2011 film) (category Films set in Iowa)
    Greene, Alicia Silverstone, and Hugh Jackman. The film is about an Iowa State Fair butter sculpture contest and the competitors and onlookers who attend...
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    (/dəˈmɔɪn/ də-MOYN) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County with parts extending into Warren...
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    going. Shari Lewis' other puppet, Hush Puppy, made his comeback at the Iowa State Fair in 2010. Until 2024 Mallory Lewis didn’t perform Charlie Horse, as...
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  • to participate. The Iowa State Fair Straw Polls for both the Republican and Democratic races were conducted at the Iowa State Fair instead. The U.S. territory...
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  • Lovato had been confirmed to perform at several state fairs, including Illinois and Iowa State Fair. A year prior, she also was announced as one of the...
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    been conducted at the Iowa State Fair since 2015. The poll took place among attendees of a fundraising dinner benefiting the Iowa Republican Party. Before...
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    2012). "State Fair's Ye Old Mill: As timeless as a first kiss". St. Paul Pioneer Press. Retrieved July 15, 2015. "Ye Old Mill". Iowa State Fair Blue Ribbon...
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    Collins Jr. were included, but got no votes. "Iowa State Fair Presidential Straw Poll – August Poll". sos.iowa.gov/. Archived from the original on September...
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    Sugarland (category Country music groups from Georgia (U.S. state))
    their concert scheduled for the following day, August 14, 2011, at the Iowa State Fair. The band also posted a letter on their website explaining their resulting...
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  • Connie Boesen (category Iowa Democrats)
    politician from Iowa. She is the mayor of Des Moines. Boesen is from Des Moines, Iowa. Her father, Ken Fulk, managed the Iowa State Fair. She graduated...
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