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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Batman_2000, post: 57303, member: 481&quot;]These are brilliant <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />. Although they were billed as a &quot;European novelty&quot; I have a feeling they were better known outside of Europe, since I couldn&#039;t find them on the British Newspaper Archive... not even in Blackpool, which is on one of the bill posters. Of course, I might not have looked properly! But I did come across the following from 1913:&nbsp; <i>Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 2. Peter W. Barlow and his newly organized circus, which left New York Oct. 23 last, opened with Circo Tatali at San Juan, Nov. 1. Barlow remained on the island three weeks and then came to this place. In the company are Ouika Meers, Melrose and Meers, <b>the Newsomes</b>, Blush Family, Loretta Twins, George Novikoff, George Meers, Ben and Josie Dunham, Mr. Tyler, Luciana Trio, Anita and Joseph Mansanero and the Barlows. Variety, January 17, 1913, p. 5. </i>(<a href="http://www.circushistory.org/History/BriefS.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.circushistory.org/History/BriefS.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.circushistory.org/History/BriefS.htm</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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