Parade of 75 Circus Wagons Draws Mass Milwaukee Crowd
Milwaukee staged a two hour tribute to the Greatest Show on Earth as 75 ornate circus wagons rolled 33 city blocks before an estimated 750000 to 775000 spectators. The parade honored Barnum and the Ringling legacy with bands, historians, and a festive Midwestern pageant.
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Milwaukee
P.T. Barnum
Barnum
Circus World Museum
Dominique Jando
Richard Whitmarsh
South Shore Circus
Massachusetts
Whitmarsh
mid-America
Don Booth
Barkin
Elderly Women Starved and Billed at Illegal Boarding Home
Five elderly former mental patients in Ocean Township New Jersey were fed minimal meals and had their Social Security checks cashed by owners Rosemary Scorp and Josephine Scorp at two illegal boarding homes. Investigators say the women lived in filthy conditions with no operable toilets, some kept on filthy, cramped floors while diets consisted mostly of soups and dog food reported by a neighbor. The state probes potential criminal charges as welfare workers reported tips leading to a July raid and further inquiries into the other residents’ whereabouts.
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Ocean Township
N.J
William Connolly
State Department of Community Affairs
Division of Housing and Development
Rosemary Scorp
Josephine
Hope Township
Connolly
Michael J. Wilfing
Department
Wilfing
Scorps
Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office
Hope Wayscan
Charles Musak
Marcella Carkhuff
Vera Lamar
Margaret Woods
Evelyn Cohen
Riverview Medical Center
Red Bank
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Ben Barkin
The
State Historical Society
Circus Museum
Baraboo
Madison
August Ringling
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Warners
Heritage Square
Schrader
Petite Place
Vanity Fair
J.B. White
Ola
Hentage Square
Tristen
Linda
Karl of
Vienna
Aiana
Karl
Alana
Aiken
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