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Waupaca Record
(Waupaca Republican, July 12
has identical article)
THE CIRCUS COMING
Gollmar Bros. Greatest of American
Shows
The
billboards are all covered with many colored advertisements announcing the
coming to Waupaca on July 19 of Gollmar Bros.
Greatest of American Shows, Circus, Museum, Menagerie and Hippodrome. Judging from notices appearing in newspapers
published in towns where the shows have exhibited already this season, the
establishment is much larger than ever before.
It is said that the free street parade is a magnificent spectacle and
that a larger number of wild animals are shown in open dens than with any other
circus on the road. Our exchanges state
that it is a fact that the Gollmar Bros. do exhibit a
monster blood sweating hippopotamus in their menagerie and that their horses
are perfect specimens and splendidly trained.
They have a herd of monster trained elephants and in their immense
zoological collection are to be seen the rarest wild animals, including the
weird and mysterious vlack vark,
the only specimen on exhibition in the world.
The press is unanimous in endorsing the Gollmar
Bros.’ Shows as clean, free from graft of every kind and of the highest class
in point of general merit. They will
exhibit here on Friday, July 19, giving two performances; doors open at 1 and
Mighty! Meritorious!
Monumental! Gollmar
Bros. Greatest of American Shows! Circus, museum, menagerie and hippodrome coming to Waupaca Friday,
July 19, in monster trains of double lengthed cars. One hundred feature acts – 200 performers, a
world’s congress of arenic and hippodrome celebrities
– a record of the past, the guarantee of present attainment. More horses, more actors, more wild animals –
a greater display of absolutely new, novel and unique features than ever
before. Grand, gold glittering and
glorious free street pageant, 2 performances daily, doors open 1 and
Waupaca Republican
The
place for Gollmar Bros. Show is changed from near the
depot to the old fair grounds I the Second Ward.
Waupaca Post
THE CIRCUS
Gollmar Bros.’ Circus was greeted by large crowds last Friday, and gave general satisfaction. The tent was well filled in the afternoon, and in the evening about 1,000 were present. The circus and menagerie were all that were claimed for them, and everything about the show was worthy of commendation.
In the menagerie were three cub lions, two weeks old, and a Shetland colt, 3 weeks old, which were quite an attraction. The hippopotamus, larger than ever, weighing about 5,000 pounds, also attracted much attention, and there was a goodly showing of other wild animals.
The circus performance, while it had no sensational death-defying act, was clever throughout. The twelve trained ponies, the riding of Lizzie Rooney, the performing horses of Mrs. Royal, and the aerial act of the Nelsson-Maxwell family, were particularly pleasing, the latter act being on flying trapeze in the peak of the big tent, the work being very gracefully done. The ballet gave two very pretty numbers, and the usual hippodrome races ended the entertainment.
The street parade in the morning was eight blocks long and was witnessed by 3,000 people.
Those who have watched the Gollmar circus grow year by year from fifteen years ago, when it came here on wagons to its present size, a sixty car railroad show, feel like congratulating the brothers upon their success.
One noticeable feature about the show was the thorough system which prevailed and the qiet, gentlemanly manner in which it was conducted. There was no profanity, no loud talking, no grafting games, and nothing unpleasant. No thieving occurred in the city while it was here, and everything about the organization was clean and up to date.