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Raleigh citizens of a hundred years ago were eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Barnum & Bailey circus.

Circus Day! And those who have tried, say that it is hopeless to try to tell it – the multifarious glories of the Barnum & Bailey circus. The advance representatives ruefully confessed their inability last night. That a great revelation of the resourceful genius of the circus man in literally re-creating the famous amusement institution is in store for the local circus goer today, was the positive and unqualified promise. That familiar catch line, “Greatest Show on Earth,” will be lived up to far and away more generously, it was assured, than in any year the circus has made appearance here.

Novelty is set as the keynote of today’s entertainment, the best elements of the dear, old-time circus mingling with the newest things in gorgeous spectacles. Monotony and repetition have been eliminated. Old-timers, it is said, will rub their eyes in astonishment.

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