From The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday,
Oct. 30, 1919
Circus Day Here
November 7
What is there about a circus that thrills the blood of a
healthy person? What is it that makes you restless and stand up on your toes
when you hear the band coming up the street, playing that music with a swelling
and vigor only heard in a circus band? You say that circuses are all alike and
when you’ve seen one, you have seen them all, but still you walk fast—or even
run—right in the heat of the day in order not to miss one bit of the
fascinating street parade and then when the calliope has passed, you will rush
to the return street and push several children out of the way to see it all
over again.
Why do you do it? Think it
over. Then you will go to the show “just to take the children,” or possibly
because your girl insisted on going and you did not wish to displease her.
It’s all right to alibi yourself almost everybody has done
the same time and time again. Does not the flash and glare and glitter have a
lot to do with your enthusiasm for circuses? Don’t you like the scintillating brilliancy
and gaudiness of the ensemble? Sure you do. Let’s all be human when the Walter
L. Main Fashion Plate Shows are in High Point, November 7th, and
have a good time. Good circuses do not come often and they are not expensive.
So meet us in front of the elephants when The Walter L. Main shows are in High
Point and we will throw trouble to the winds and peanuts to the elephants.
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People knew of the
Walter L. Main Circus because the circus train had crashed in 1893, killing dozens of
circus animals and the escape of dozens more into the Pennsylvania woods. To
see more circus posters and photos, go to https://maps.roadtrippers.com/stories/a-horrific-circus-train-crash-and-a-missing-mass-grave-lead-to-a-mysterious-local-legend
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