Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 34
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 18, 1907
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THE SELLS-FOTO SHOW IN TOWN
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Street Parade was Witnessed by
Hundreds of People.
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       Saturday was show day in Marlin and everybody knows it.
       The Sells-Foto people reached here at an early hour from Waco where they held the boards Friday.
       Thousands of people are in town and many of them came expressly to see the show or the parade, or both.
       The "grand and gorgeous" street parade was pulled off close to schedule time and the streets and awnings were lined with people with craned necks and distended eyes, fearful that some detail or incident of the show might escape them.  The elephants, tigers, lions, monkeys, clowns and other animals, biped and quadruped, were in evidence, along with gaily bedecked wagons, the bands and other concomitants usually found in a show.  The small boy, accompanied by his father, mother, brothers and sisters who came along to "take care of Johnny," was there in all his glory.  His hungry eyes feasted upon the animals and other exterior objects in the parade, and wondered what on earth it could be in the closed wagons, so gaudily painted.
       The menagarie and zoological garden is a very good one and is first to command the interest of visitors to the show.  It is not the largest that ever went out on the road, but it is above the average in quality that comes to Marlin.
       The first performance took place at 2:30 and was witnessed by a very large crowd, in fact the large tent was full to capacity.  Another performance will be given at 7 p.m. the doors being open at 8, giving the public an opportunity to see the animals before the performance begins.

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