Word: baraboo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baraboo, Wis., Otto Bach, arrested on a charge of forging checks, was released, placed on three-year probation when he explained: "I manufacture check protectors to prevent forgeries. Business is slack and I ran out of funds...
...Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...Ringling partnership which preceded it. Nor was the integrity of its principal owner, John Ringling, at stake. So far as the Government could see, the alleged frauds had been perpetrated without the knowledge or consent of robustious old "Mr. John," the last of the seven Rungeling Brothers from Baraboo, Wis. whose name was changed by a typesetter and allowed to stand uncorrected. All six men indicted in Manhattan last week were agents-"Mr. John's" secretary and his lawyer, John M. Kelley, and four onetime Internal Revenue agents. All had had a hand in preparing or passing various Ringling...
...Robert Edward Ringling, when he was a small boy in Baraboo. Wis., the fact that his father Charles was one of the seven brothers who owned the biggest circus in the world meant nothing at all. At seven he took up the study of the violin, followed, when he was ten, by the piano. When a football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut...
...Ringling Fall was the low estate of the biggest show business. Only three of the six Ringling circuses were on the road this season. And there had been four straight seasons when net receipts were almost as low as they were when the seven sons of August Rungling of Baraboo, Wis. toured the prairie towns in ''Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance...