Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — If You Don't Intend to Visit but One Circus and Menagerie This Season, Take Our Advice [ARTICLE]

If You Don't Intend to Visit but One Circus and Menagerie This Season, Take Our Advice

and on June 18, come along with your family and witness the Only Really Big Show that will come to Rensselaer this V®ar, which is ihe Old John Robinson’s Ten Big Gigantic New Shows Combined for 1886, and you will see a confederation di marvels, and miracles, and curiosities that has takenfifty-nine years of diligent and faithful services to accumulate. Talk about the pre- ■ *umption of some shows calling themselves the oldest show on earth. John Robinson's Big Show is now on its fift yainth annual tour, and he will giro a thousand dollars to any man who can come forward and testify, on oath, that there is a single tshowman on eartn that can show a record of nearly sixty years before the American public. One more year only, and then he will have been more than three times as long a proprietor of a combined circus and menagerie than any man in the world. John Robinson never divides, never splits up, it has been John Robinson t Big Show lor fifty-nine summers and winters, and the name of John Robinson’s Grandest, Oldest, Biggest and Best of all the Big Shows, will be, kept green and bright before the people for years and years to come, for the sou, John F. Robinson. Jr., the able Manager, and also the grandson of the old veteran showman, who also betas the same of his grandsire, and 2»oMwar horse is hale and hearty and 77 years of age, his scions will keep the name of Old John Robinson before the American people for many years to come. Remember, that there is btat one John Robinson Big Show, and it will come to Rensselaer, June 18, » sere «s the sun rises in die East and --- ****** irill II Kahtiars cheap Drag Store and A<o mistaxe* Save yovr mom* b.v -eeiog w before nlre aIJ