Billboard Excerpts 1. First titled Billboard Advertising, Billboard was a monthly paper published in the interest of bill posters, starting November, 1. In May, 1. 90. 0, it became a weekly. Microfilms of Billboard are available from various libraries and other sources. Billboard contained regular news about circuses. These excerpts are interesting for the information on circuses, acts, personnel and circus life. Included here are a limited number of dates and amount of informationon circuses published in Billboard. Only a few transcriptions for any issue are complete. Note: Billboard had typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information with a word or words underlined indicate that the transcription may not be correct. Unreadable words are indicated by . Transcribed by Judy Griffin. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by . Some items may not be circuses or circus- related. Most of the circus news was unreadable. Only selected items were transcribed. Wilton Traber, of Hamilton, O., mailed cards to his friends during the holiday season, bearing the following legend: A Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year, 1. J. Milton Traber, Hamilton, Ohio. A remnant of Montgomery Queen Circus, S. Show, the Great Adam Forepaugh Show, Phil. Diefenbach Circus, Albert M. Wetter Show, Hummell, Hamilton and Sells Show, the Famous Carl Hagenbeck Trained Animal Show, Darling and De. Onzo Dog and Pony Show, the De. Onzo Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West is now practically but a memory as a fourteen car show, as the entire train with the exception of two sleeping cars, have been disposed of to Wheeler and Downie, the Masterson Shows, and to Thos. The Masterson Shows secured the privilege car, Thelma, which the Jones Bros. Augustus Jones, has no intention of leaving the amusement field and is now engaged in assembling a two or three car outfit for the coming season. Doorman will also be associated with Bill Rice and Sydney Wire in the winter circus, which is being promoted under local auspices throughout Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Shows, is spending the winter season at his home in Toledo, O. Knupp, general agent of the John Robinson Shows, has signed the following billers for Bob Simons' opposition brigade, with the Robinson Shows next season: Thos. Roddy, Rags Warner, Leo Hart, George Chenet, Burt Mc. Phail and James Rhoades. The acrobatic acts will be billed as the Six Waltons, while their statuary work and art posing will be billed at the Dellarosa Troupe of Roman Appollos. Bremer, circus and privilege man, spent Christmas at his home, 1. Amhurst street, Charleston, S. Taylor, last season had the band with the Andrew Downie Shows, is engaged as musical director with the new Downie and Wheeler Shows. He will have a band of sixteen musicians. The soil, such as it is, gives way to my mattock. What if the industrial age comes to its overdue close, taking the love of my life with it? As I write this David is on his penultimate day of that epic trek. On Thursday GPS Dave, Val, Musmoo and I went to Botany Bay Chorley to meet him as walked the. Berger, treasurer and press agent of Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West last season, returned to his home in Warren, Pa. Eschman European Circus last season, has charge of the stock at the winter quarters of this show at Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minn. Smith has signed for next season. Lamar High School Class of 1959 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun.Hassellman closed with the Forepaugh- Sells Bros. Circus again next season. Wheeler Shows, will have charge of the cook and dining tents with the new Downie & Wheeler Shows next season. Ingalls will again be with the big show next spring. Forepaugh- Sells Show, is spending the winter in Warren, Pa., with his parents. Show, have returned to their home in Warren, Pa., for the winter. Robbins Show for the season of 1. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by . Some items may not be circuses or circus- related. Only selected items were transcribed. Next season will be the forty- third one for John White Sr., in the show business. White is one of the oldest horse trainers in the business and has traveled with practically all the shows, big and little. He was for eleven years with the Stowe and Long Show, seven years with Sells Brothers, four years with the Barnum Shows, six years with the Welsh Brothers, and with many others, besides conducting his own shows. The company was gotten together by Eddie Ward, of the Flying Wards, and Harry La. Mar, of the La. Mar Troupe. Those who took part in the performance were: Donahugh and Hamilton, comedy acrobats; Miss Victoria Davenport, bareback rider; the Flying Wards, aerialists; Dan Kelly and his giraffe Jocko; the Four Kellys, tight wire; Orrin Davenport, somersault rider and equestrian; Miss Kelly, globe roller; Charlie Smith and assistants, clowns; La. Tell Sisters, the Human Butterfiles in a mid- air act swing by their teeth; the Arisato Troupe acrobats and equilibrists; the Two Davenports, bareback riders; Miss Edith Fisher, trapeze and revolving act, and the La. Mar Troupe, trapeze artists. Coulter's Railroad Shows for the season of 1. W. Coulter, general director; Dean Leon, equestrian director; A. Buckley, contracting agent; Fred D. Fowler, general representative; Bert Scott, general superintendent; Geo. Embree, manager of side shows; J. Patton, treasurer; Jas. Babcock, master of transportation; Art Eldridge, superintendent of privileges; Mr. Carpenter, boss canvasman; Jim Howard, in charge of stock. Ray Thompson will handle the dogs and ponies. Henry's Wagon Show closed the season at headquarters, Stonewall, Okla., Nov. Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska for a season of thirty- eight weeks. Henry will put out a one- ring circus, carrying two side shows, and will ahve twenty wagons and ten cages of animals. He will also carry his own electric light plant mounted on a wagon. For the last five years they have occupied the old Sells Bros. Heber Brothers have placed orders for new tents, seats, etc. Several new wagons are under construction. Cookston is at Peoria, Ill., for the winter, acting as superintendent of the Young Buffalo winter quarters, rebuilding and remodeling the entire show, also looking after one hundred and forty head of stock that has been turned out on the farm. Great Shows and London Hippodrome Combined for the season of 1. Prof. John White, with his troupe of animals, Mme. Yucca, strong woman, and May Koster, female singing clown. C., as printed in a recent issue of The Billboard. Albert Mitchell, in a balancing act, and Mr. Mack Blyth recently joined the show. They have signed with the Sun Bros. Show for the season of 1. Levis, the allegation by the plaintiff being that after twenty years of married life she discoverd that at the time of the wedding Levis had a wife living. The truth of the charge was not questioned, counsel for Levis appearing in court only to state that there would be no defense. At the time of the wedding, Miss Carlton, then a girl of sixteen, was a rider with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, as also was Levis, who subsequently joined the Ringling Bros. Circus and more recently was superintendent of the Hippodrome in New York. Rhodes, who has closed a contract with Howe's Great London Shows, season 1. Miller Bros., touring the South for the winter. Walter Robinson, aged forty years, a former circus advance man, was found deat at a local hotel Tuesday moring of this week. Death was due to heart trouble. The remains were sent to Cincinnati, O., for burial. Clark & Sons Show will close at Tioga, La., January 1. Alexandria. On January 2, a rather cold night chilled one of the elephants, causing it to die. Assisted by his brother John, he will put out some reading next season. Irwin Family returned to their home in Steelville, Mo., after thirty- six weeks in vaudeville. They are practicing some new tricks at their new ring barn. Piel has again signed with the Buffalo Bill- Pawnee Bill Show, to sell reserved seats in the white wagon. This will make his fourth season with the show. Miller, for the past five seasons with the Al. Wheeler Shows, has signed as lot superintendent with the Downie and Wheeler's World's Best Shows. Mann, circus agent, will the coming season look after the press work in advance of the Downie and Wheeler Shows. Note: Billboard has typographical errors, and the transcription will have additional typos. Information should be checked with additional sources. Underlined word, transcription may not be correct. Unreadable word indicated by . Some items may not be circuses or circus- related. Only selected items were transcribed. Thompson, who has been press representative of the 1. Ranch Wild West since its inception three years ago, has enlisted with the Buffalo Bill- Pawnee Bill forces, under Louis E. Thompson entered the circus field four years ago, when he allied himself with Pawnee Bill's Wild West as the assistant of Edward Arlington. Joe Callis will be manager of Howe's Great London side shows next season. He has been in the show business ever since he ran away form home to go with a circus when he was seven years old. The sad ending of a romance of the circus ring was brought to light in a decision by Judge Magil, ordering Edwin K. Mozart to pay his wife, on account of desertion, $1. Mozart is maanger of various amusement concerns at Lancaster, Pa., and Elmira, N. His wife, Georgia Kane, was a former circus performer. They were married in Louisville, Ky., in 1. On application of Lucille Van Burger (Lucille Mulhall), Federal Judge E. Sanford ordered the release upon the giving of a $3. Red Buck and Grenola, two horses used by Miss Mulhall in her vaudeville act. These horses were used in the Mulhall Wild West Show here during the recent Appalachian Exposition and were tied up in litigation between Mulhall and the Expositon Company. Palace, steam heated, stock pavilion new yards, East St. Lancashire. Walks. Russell Hedley's Nature Walk. Entwistle Nature Walk. Too often we step outdoors to “do” a walk – that is follow a route with only a minimal engagement with what we see and hear. Russell Hedley who is embarking on a career as a nature walk leader takes a different approach. For him a walk is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the environment; to stop and stare; to pause and investigate more closely; to wait and see what might come into view. This walk takes us back to familiar territory but with a different perspective – to step out and look at what nature is up to and be enriched in doing so. Just before reaching the water turn left onto a footpath that edges around the shore of this remainder arm. Immediately for the nature lover opportunities open up. The predominantly deciduous woodland attracts a host of song birds which in late spring are still at full throttle. Dawn is a particularly rewarding time to listen to the cacophony of sound produced by these tiny creatures. Look out for blackbirds, robins, thrushes and titmice as the path crosses two wooden footbridges and returns you to the far side of the causeway. Keep ahead over the lane to follow the eastern shore of the main basin of Wayoh Reservoir. To the left pastureland opens up below Isherwood Fold presenting the chance to spot lapwing or the hovering kestrel on the lookout for small mammals in the grass. Hereabouts we spotted a jay, the most colourful member of the crow family. After passing by a conifer plantation the path climbs through gorse into meadows (look out for hare in these fields) before dropping down to the dam end of the reservoir. Cross to the far side and turn right. Immediately you pass through tall stands of conifers and then after bearing left when you reach the causeway enter deciduous woodland which at this time of year is bursting into full leaf. This may reduce the chances of seeing nuthatches which are attracted to these woods but you will not miss its distinctively piercing referee's whistle of a call. The path leads below the railway viaduct to climb up a level to reach the car park of Turton & Entwistle Reservoir. Continue on a broad track with the water on your right. A host of species are attracted to the water but you are more or less guaranteed to see Canada geese and the ubiquitous mallard. The fact that it is so common place should not make us admire the mallard less. As reservoirs go this one with its dense ranks of trees almost crowding down to the shore is particularly picturesque - as if some piece of the Scottish Highlands has been dislodged and come to rest in this part of Lancashire. As you cross the stream look out for wagtails - almost the classic habitat for the grey wagtail which in fact is more noticeable for its bright yellow breast than the grey back that gives it its name. Fox Hill Plantation was found to be especially abundant different species of birds when we checked the route. In the space of a few minutes we came across Great Tits, Long Tail Tits, Robins and possibly a Chiff Chaff. Out on the water cormorants attested to the rich fish life below the surface. Close to the start of an inlet a piece of public art - . Later as the path turns more to the south it passes below a colony of herons with huge untidy nests constructed almost improbably on top of tall trees. Printer friendly version. If you are interested in being led on a walk by Russell he can be contacted on 0.
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