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Earnum's First Circus Exhibit.P. T. Barnum launched his career in the show business by exhibiting a . remarkable negro woman, believed to be 160 years old. and said to have been a nurse to George Washington. An old bill of sale was exhibited, properly dated, concerning .Joyce He:h, then 54 years old. and evidence was also furnished that she was nurse to George Washington. Everything seemed so straightforward to the young man that he was eager ^o become the proprietor of this novel exhibition, which he purchased for $1,000, $500 of which he paid down, selling cut his interest in the grocery business, and the other $500 he borrowed. He saw* that the thing to do was to make people talk and become curious and excited over rare spectacles. Regardless of expense he advertised in New York, Poston and Philadelphia, and the halls were thronged until Joyce Heth died.—Joe Mitchell Chappie in National Magazine.
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Chicago Englewood Times
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Feb 20, 1914
Page 5
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Agnieszka T.
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