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...city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from its winter headquarters at Peru. Ind., at the height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels. Menagerie fatalities: two monkeys, two cockatoos, a springbok. Hearses never reached cemeteries. Big employers like Illinois Sell...
...There were six circuses in the merger: Ring-line; Bros.-Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks, Al G. Barnes (TIME, Sept...
...aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity...
Died. Otto Floto, 65, of Denver, sports editor of the Denver Post and founder of "The Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show," from which grew the "Sells-Floto Circus"; in Denver...
Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...