Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 40
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 9, 1907
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The Big Circus at Waco.
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       The people in and around this city are to have an opportunity of seeing the great Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros' combined shows, the point of exhibition being Waco and the date Oct. 17.  Since last seen in this part of the country this great enterprise has grown to such an extent that it is much the largest circus in the world, and it has been so greatly improved that it stands above comparison with any other similar form of enterprise.
       One million dollars was spent on the parade alone this season, for the purpose of making it a complete department from old lines.  It is an absolutely new idea in the way of street spectacles; longer than any other and not one thing in it that can be seen anywhere else.  In it alone are 1,200 people 500 horses and more than half the elephants in America.
       The performance under the main tent is without the greatest ever seen in America.  It is made up almost entirely of European acts never before seen in this country.  The climax of the great program is an automobile somersault, performed by a young French woman, who rides from the dome down a steep track in a heavy machine to within a few feet of the ground where a sharp upward curve in the tramway dashes the automobile and rider high in the air.  The machine pauses the fraction of a second, then turns a complete revolution and plunges to a spring platform where it lands wheels downward.   dw1

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