Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 39
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 5, 1907
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Many Going To The Big Circus.
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Many people are going from this point to Waco to see the great Adam Forepaugh
and Sell's Brothers' circus when it exhibits there on Oct. 17. This will
be the nearest to this city that the show will be this year. Since last
seen in this section of the country the Forepaugh and Sell's Brothers' circus
has grown to such an extent that the trains upon which it travels have a
combined length of one mile. The organization numbers 1,200 people, 500
horses, six herds of elephants and several hundred other animals.
The great street parade is over two miles
long and one million dollars was spent to make it the most ornate and novel in
idea of any ever presented. The spectacle "Fighting the Flames,"
which opens the regular program is the most thrilling dramatic and beautiful
ever conceived, and there is nothing like it to be seen anywhere else. It
fills the entire arena of the biggest tent ever put up and employs 1,000 people,
500 horses, 300 carriages, wagons and automobiles, a complete battilion of
metropolitan firemen with hose carts, engines, standpipes and hook and ladder
wagons and a trainload of scenery.
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