Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — The First Big Circus. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The First Big Circus.

The first big circus of the season to visit this city will be the Great Wallace Shows, which will exhibit ,i a Rensselaer one day only, Tuesday August 27th. For seventeen years the Wallace Show has visited the ohief

cities of this state and of the country, but this city seldom befoie has been on its route. Our oitizensare liberal patrons of anything in the oirous line, and a show of the high standard and real merit possessed by the Great Wallace Show is sore to be most liberally patronized. A large number of the residents of this city have either seen or heard of the Wallace Bhows, an.-k have direct knowledge that it is a high-class attraction, but for the benefit of those iyho are not so trail posted, wp will stats that the Great Wallace Show in one of the Urgeet cm the road- It hasa large menagerie, three rings and a stage, and has a national reputation for having the finest horses on earth. It oliums to be the “highest class oirous in the world,” siod judging from the prees notices by the papers of the large cities of this state and throughout the country the Wallace Show has a dear and undisputed title to its motfo. The great Wallace show will give twoperformanoes in R eases laer on Tuesday August 27,