Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — Noted Horseman Coining To Rensselaer Next Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Noted Horseman Coining To Rensselaer Next Tuesday.

Termed by Major General Leonard Wood, United States Army, as “The ideal horsewoman,” Miss Minnie Thompson, who will be see in Rensselaer at the matinee and night perfonpances of the Gentry Brothers famous shows on Tuesday, Sept. 4th, is universally acknowledged to be America’s foremost woman trainer and rider of high school, jumping and menage horses She will head the group of Gentry woman stars this season in several beautiful equine posing numbers and her act with the waltzing and tangoing horses will prove a sensation in the realms of the white tops. Miss Thompson is the- winner of countless blue ribbons at the-New York and other eastern horse shows. It was during the 1915 Piping Rock show that she leaped General Wood’s hunter, ‘Corsair,” over the' racing runabout owned by Otto Cushing, the well known caricaturist on “Life,” who sat in the car with Colonel Samuel Reber, head of the U. S. Artny aviation corps.