Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1897 — A SHOW TRULY MORAL [ARTICLE]

A SHOW TRULY MORAL

“The Great John Robinson and Franklin Bro .’ Enormous Shows combined" are announced to appear at Rensselaer in all their vast entirety, on Monday, July 26th, and for one day only, giving two complete performances, afternoon and evening.— All of our exchanges speak int e highest terms of this great amusement enterprise, and the many “tough hangers-on” which are so frequently found with large shows, are made conspicuous by their absence.— There is not a game of chance of any kind permit ed on or around the grounds. All the attaches are gentlemen, and there is not a loud or profane word spoken. It is a wonderful sight to see the wonderful “horseless carriage” in trial tests of speed at every performance and in the great doubleiparade. The three ringa and elevated stages are all going at one time, w-th entirely different acts Per< ormers picked from the best the world affords, and there is more than four score of them, whose combined salaries would more than equal twice ovei the entire expense of the every day circus. The daily free street parade io One ma is of glittering magnificence, containing “sc.nes from all nations” numerous open dens of rare wild beasts, twelve kinds of music, herds of elephants and the finest imported horses ever seen with a tented amusement enterprise. The coming of this, the world’s biggest amusement, is cause for a "regal" holiday in every city it visits, and h is worth coming a day’s travel to see.