Word: circusman
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Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling; in Sarasota, Fla. Charges: vilification, physical violence which caused the pulse of Mr. Ringling, ill with thrombosis, on occasion to rise from...
...Ringling will travel with it, to learn more of the family business. It is a Ringling tradition for some member of the family to accompany the show. Old John Ringling, last of the founding brothers, has been too ill to do so for the past two years. As a circusman, Robert Ringling will spend his first season helping the publicity department. In his spare moments he hopes to do some work with the Ringling musical clowns...
...Circusman John Ringling had to admit newsmen to his suite at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel, hard by the area which was destroyed by fire last week, before they were convinced that he had not had his legs amputated. Angrily he explained that an infected blister on his right instep had been treated, that was all. Now he and his wife had come for a fortnight's rest as guests of his good friend Samuel W. Gumpertz, president of Coney Island's Board of Trade. As for the amputation story, which had already gotten into print...
Authorities of Brockton, Quincy and Lowell, Mass, refused entry to Walter L. Main's circus unless it eliminated from its program a sideshow in which Negro William Allen told how he discovered the body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Circusman Main withdrew Negro Allen following his New Bedford debut, which aroused slight interest...
Publisher Brown kept no office at his newspaper plant, or anywhere else. Like Circusman John Ringling, he always conducted his business at night, principally after 9 o'clock, until daylight, "because I find I meet with less disturbance than working during the day." He would arise about 4 p. m. at his Cherokee Park home, go to town in the evening, to a branch of his National Bank. There he would sit at the desk of a vice president and, with barely the scratch of a pen, direct his myriad affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue...