Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1915 — 25 YEARS UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT [ARTICLE]

25 YEARS UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT

Sparks World’s Famous Shows and Trained Animal Exhibition Coming to Rensselaer Soon. So familiar has the public become with the fact of the enormous growth attained each year by the Sparks World’s Famous 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 season 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 10:30 a. m. 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 uoats, fierce wild animals, ponderous elephants and stately camels will swing past to the martial music of four brass bands, musical wagons and the soul stirring caliope. 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 amusement achievement of the century, keeping ever in mind the three chief watchwords—magnitude, excellence and exclusiveness. At Rensselaer, Thursday, May 13.