Mrs. Katherine Hanneford Sails With Tommy Hanneford Circus
Massachusetts native Mrs. Katherine Hanneford, a 55 year circuses veteran, is known for her long dress feathered headdress and whip. She debuted in Amsterdam at age 12 in her father's act and now performs with her son Tommy Hanneford Circus keeping horses galloping with the crack of her whip.
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Charlie Chaplin
Katherine Hanneford
Osprey
Massachussetts
Amsterdam
Holland
Harry Bird
Hanneford Family Legacy Ties To Circus Arts Across Generations
Inside today the 89 year old matriarch recounts a family steeped in circus history. Nellie Hanneford, age 8 or 81 years younger than her great elder, performs bareback riding and elephant acts while eyeing trapeze and the Princess Tajana routine once done by her aunt Struppi Hanneford. Nellie, adopted after Kay Francis’s death, studies by correspondence on the road and at home attends private school. Mrs. Hanneford widowed four years ago after a half century of marriage, had traveled with her father’s act to 22 countries before teaming with sister Katherine in New York and Madison Square Garden beginnings that featured Poodles Hanneford.
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Nellie Hanneford
Nellie
Struppi
Tommy
Kay Francis
Hanneford
George Hanneford Sr
Blackpool
England
Katherine
George Hanneford
New York City
Madison Square Garden
Ewing Visits Venice High School During 1976 Session
State Rep. Ted Ewing spent a day at Venice High School meeting Col Berry Walker and Saunders Bell classes in PAD Problems of American Democracy. He praised discussions on American economics government and taxation and noted students learn free enterprise from local business figures. He urged voting at 18 and offered contact points in Venice Englewood and Sarasota. He serves on Commerce Tourism and Labor panels and worries the growing state budget from 375 million in 1966 to 6 billion in 1976.
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Florida
Ted Ewing
Venice High School
Venice
Chamber of Commerce
OSHA
Ewing
Rep. Ewing
Tallahassee
Venice City Hall
Englewood
WENG
Highway 777
Sarasota
Fla
Commerce Committee
Labor
New Wheelchair For Johnny Brings Christmas Hope
Nine year old Johnny Colmus of Englewood, paralyzed by spina bifida, received a $425 electric wheelchair with a tray after the Lemon Bay American Legion Post and Auxiliary funded it following a hit and run crash that destroyed his mother's car chair. Charlotte County nurse Isabelle King brought the need to local veterans groups who voted to help, enabling Johnny to resume school activities and therapies when funds allow.
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Johnny Colmus
Englewood
Jeannette Kinsey
Charlotte County
Isabelle King
Johnny
Lemon Bay American Legion Post
Royce Phelps
Ransom Riggs
Riggs
Happiness House
Sarasota
Third Street
Young Johnny
Legion
Auxiliary
Venice Area Chamber 53rd Annual Dinner Install Officers
The Venice Area Chamber of Commerce will host its 53rd annual dinner and installation of officers and directors on Saturday January 21 at the Pewter Mug on Business 41. Cocktails start at 6 dinner at 7. Tickets are $9 and available through the chamber office. seating is limited so members should confirm early.
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Venice Area
Ringling Bros Circus 107th Edition Rehearsals Begin in Venice
Circus rehearsals for the 107th Edition Red Unit start tomorrow at Circus Winter Quarters in Venice. The second half of the tour runs Monday Jan 30 to Wednesday Feb 1 in Venice featuring Gunther Gebel-Williams Dolly Jacobs Carrillo Brothers and other acts. Tickets are sold at Sears stores in Sarasota Bradenton Fort Myers and the Circus Arena box office.
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Circus Winter Quarters
Venice
Gunther Gebel-Williams
Dolly Jacobs
Ante Carlo
Colombia
Carrillo Brothers
Sears
Sarasota
Bradenton
Fort Myers
Circus Arena
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Ae Eee
Eee
UGG
Katherine Hanne
Ford
Dorothy Lippstrever
VACC
Stephenson
Flying Farians
Flying Segreras
Irvin Feld
Kenneth Feld
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
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