Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1915 — SPARKS CIRCUS ADVANCE CAR IN TOWN [ARTICLE]

SPARKS CIRCUS ADVANCE CAR IN TOWN

Best Equipped and Most Handsome Advance Car on the Road — Ahead of Circus. Everybody is happy today, for the Sparks circus advance car is here and the bams, walls, billboards and store windows are gaily decorated with circus posters announcing the coming of this well known show on Thursday, May i 3. Both the town and surrounding country for miles around is thoroughly advertised and no doubt there will be a large crowd in town on circus day. This car carries a crew of twenty men commanded by James Randolph and is a 76 foot Pullman equipped with all modern conveniences and the men who travel thereon enjoy all the comforts of a first class hotel. Van 0. Diver, the press agent, tells us that the show is bigger and better this season than ever before, carrying more cars, more animals, more horses, more people and many new and novel acts never before seen in this section of the country. The newspapers of the south and east speak very highly of this attraction, ranking it among the best. No gambling or dishonesty is tolerated and the management employs their own corps of private detectives who take particular care that visitors to the exhibition are protected and receive polite and courteous attention. Most any day from now until circus day will see some agent of the circus in town looking after some of the many arrangements necessary to the advance preparations of an attraction of this size.