Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1915 — FREE SHOW COMING OPENS TUESDAY EVE [ARTICLE]

FREE SHOW COMING OPENS TUESDAY EVE

Franklin Man and His Wonderful Free Vaudeville—Children Not Admitted Without Parents.

Franklin, the man who succeeded in stirring New York to its foundations last winter and who will arrive in this city shortly, has had a remarkable career. He began life on a farm, in Iowa; left home at fourteen, wandered all over the world until twenty-five and finall yacquired a fortune in two years from medicine, the formula of which he claims to have acquired from a French chemist in return for a small loan. Franklin believes the stomachs of civilized nations are slowly degenerating from centuries of abuse. He says that 50 or 60 per cent of all Americans are in poor health, owing to weakened digestive organs. He claims there would be little sickness if we could eradicate the chronic stomach trouble of the present generation. With his medicine to back him up he began a campaign two years ago traveling from city to city, “educating the stomach”, as he calls it. From the first he was extraordinarily successful and his theories are now widely accepted in the eastern and middle western states. _ This will be Franklin’s first visit to this part of the country where he will spend the next month expounding his theories and introducing his medicine in our city. Franklin expects to arrive here on Tuesday. FREE SHOW—Franklin carries a large vaudeville company with him and will start a series of ftee concerts and vaudeville shows at the Ellis Theatre commencing Tuesday evening at 7:3o.—Advertisement.