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“The circus Is here? Those four manic words brought more youngsters popping out of bed at 4 o'clock this morning than a dozen words of entreaty could have awakened at 9 o'clock on any other day.The crowds which congregated along Franklin -street other years, for the unloadlngs of various 9hows were dwarfed in comparison to that which gathered today. Hundreds of people crowded the streetsfrom 10th and Franklin to 15th street. When the first train arrived at 4:30 a. m. several hundred people had already gathered there. All walks of life were represented. Groups of youngsters were perched advantageously on the top of a string of box chts .which stood alongside the circus train. The 7 o'clock whistles caused many of the spectators to reluctantly start for work, peering back every few (Herald-News photography). steps so that they might miss nothing. By 7:15 the ranks of the spec-1 lators had again been swelled to j full strength by the laic risers and : scarcely more than fifteen minutes I later it was accessary for part of i the crowd to stand in the street, j Chief interest was in the arrival ! of the last section which carried the | elephants, cnmels and other animals in the big menagerie.MANITOWOC WAS UP EARLY THIS MORNING; WATCH CIRCUS UNLOADING ON FRANKLIN ST.i enrAiT oiiipp
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 19, 1931
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