Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — WATCH FOR IT. [ARTICLE]

WATCH FOR IT.

On Friday, August 23 a series of great white buildings will be erected at Riverside Park in Rensselaer. These structures will contain a world of exhibitions, hundreds of novelties, a la World’s Fair. There will be seating capacity for many thousands of people, bands playing, great crowds, parades, horses gaily decorated with costly and unique trappings, riders, acrobats, chariots and charioteers, flags flying, great pomp and dash of color, superb blending of gold and silver costuming, etc. Before going farther, however, it should be understood that these great white buildings are the immense white tents of the Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows Combined, and world famed Trained WUd Beasts Exhibitions, that comes with a menu of brand-new attractions circus and menagerie wonders.