Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — THE BIG SHOW COMING. [ARTICLE]

THE BIG SHOW COMING.

The announcement that Ringling Brothers’ World’s Greatest Shows will exhibit in Kankakee, 111., Thursday, Aug. 17, will be received with more than usual interest by the people in this neighborhood. The Ringling Brothers have a name that stands for all that is new, novel and entertaining in the circus line and the management announces that this season the show has been enlarged to such an extent that whole extra train is used in addition to the four trains of last season. The show is now transported from place to place in eighty-five seven-ty-foot cars, constructed especially for the Ringling Brothers. In connection with the circus proper, in which the arenic performance is unexcelled, the Ringling Brothers are this season presenting the beautiful and sublime spectacular production of The Field of the Cloth of Gold. This pantomimic play necessitates the use of 1,200 actors and actresses and of almost five hundred horses. It is presented on the largest stage ever used for exhibtional purposes. Special excursion rates have been arranged for on all lines of travel by Ringling Brothers, and those who desire to go to Kankakee where this great circus exhibits next Thursday, can do so at a comparatively small cost. This will be the only point in this vicinity where the circus will exhibit this season and no one should miss the opportunity to see it. Furnished rooms for rent one block east of Court House, on Weston St. Inquire of J. H. Carson.