Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — 25 TEARS UNDER one Management [ARTICLE]

25 TEARS UNDER one Management

John H. Sparks World’s Famous Shows and Trained Animal Exhibition Coming Soon.

So familiar has the public become with the fact of the enormous growth attained each year by the John H. Sparks Shows that the return of this greatest of American shows is awaited with much interest, knowing full well that there is always something new to be seen each visit.

In fact, words fail to do justice to this wonderful aggregation of arenic celebrities, hippodrome spectacles and animal features. This seasoxi they have come together from all corners of the earth to make this the most complete exhibition of its kind ever attempted. Every day at 12 o’clock noon the

grandest, rarest and most complete free street pageant ever seen—a fortune invested in wardrobe, trappings, and accessories—will pass through the principal business streets, and cages and tableaux in endless variety, gorgeous floats, and fierce wild animals, ponderous elephants and stately camels will swing past to the martial music of four brass bands, musical, wagons and the soul calliope. Notwithstanding the previous enlargements the claim is made that the additions that have been added to the show for this season are far greater than ever before attempted and make this beyond all doubt the most noteworthy amu sem en t achievement of the century, keeping in mind the three chief watchwords —magnitude, excellence and exclusiveness. . \ The Sparks Shows will exhibit in Rensselaer, Wednesday, May 21..