Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-24
MAN IS BURIED A[N[
Actually Entombed for Six Days
and Resurrected on the
Seventh.
Burial Takes Place Before Thou.
sands OF Witnesses-A Pub
lie Resurrection.
Carnival Company Expends Sl2,'
900 for Free Shows June 81
to July 6.

When years ago travellers in Hindu
stan, Persia and the Great Thibetah
uplands brought back With them mar
yelous stories of the supernatural pow
ers of the Adept Theosophists ana the
mystical Brahmin priesthood they tod
OF men whose burial they had witnessed
and whose resurrection they had seen
with their own eyes after weeks OF IN
terment. Their tales met with sniai'
credence. It remained for the present
decade to prove their absolute truth by
the actual performance in America OIL
the feat of which the travellers told,
This wonderful act has been accom-
plished in this country and viii
be done again at the Marshall
town carnival. The subject VIII
be thrown into trance ana
buried near the grand stand under the
ewes of the entire assemblage. The
grave will be filed UP and grass seed
sown upon its surface. 1t Will be rig
idly guarded day and night to prevent
fraud. Grass seed will be sown upon
the grave and the sprouting grass
make fraud impossible without detec-
ton. On the last day of the carnival
in full sight of the immense crowd, the
grave will be opened and its occupant
restored to life. 1t is the revival in
America of the almost unimaginable
powers of the old Arabian magii. The
mere thought of it's possibility seems
absurd. Nevertheless. it will be done.
The man will be in his grave from June
80 to July and be returned to life and
strength upon the latter date
Twelve thousand dollars has been
expended by the company on free
shows alone. Barnes famous diving
ciks, which plunge from a tower eighty
feet in height: the five Guthries, Eu-
ropes greatest gymnasts and acrobats;
an English hunting scene introducing
high jumping horses, hounds and deer;
balloon ascension and actual airship
races every afternoon and evening by
the renowned Starr sisters, the only ri
walls of Santos-Dumont since the death
of Severe, are among the list of high
class attractions. They will show the
wonderful cycle dazzle over which the
London papers raved as defying the
laws of gravitation and to which the
Strand Magazine devoted pages of It's
valuable space in illustration.
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Davenport, the high wire artist,
whose dangerous acts fifty feet in air
are perhaps as attractive as any other
feature of the fair. walks blindfold with
feet in market baskets. rides a wheel
upon slender wire charged with cleo
tricity and glazing with lights. and does
dozen highly exciting and thrilling
acts. The victoire electric fountain
Ia magnificent spectacle; a midway
great with all new features and the
shows of foreign lanes. French and
Turkish theaters, Turkish kiosks. Jap
anese tea houses, Moorish temples,
Boer farm houses, gun spinners, sword
fighters, Egyptian almehs and whirling
dervishes, Japanese jugglers and ladder
balancers, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese,
Mexican, Hindoo and Egyptian cos
tunes, feats of agility and strength,
Arabian acrobats and pyramid build
ers, Ferris wheels, moving pictures,
vaudeville companies, the German viii
lage. with its cool shade and beverages,
the Moulin Rouge gypsy camps, tenn
pies of mysteries, the children's thea
ter and a thousand new and novel at
fractions never before brought to Iowa.
All these are but partial list of the
great pot pourri of amusement the car
nival company has provided for Its pat
rons
The company gives assurance that
the carnival shall be clean and free
from the vicious features sometimes
admitted by carnival promoters. The
great show will be made a resort for
the best and most fastidious classes OF
amusement seekers. No one need fear
to come The carnival grounds will be
made place where ladies and children
may resort without fear of insult or
contamination. Every day will be a
big day of special attractions. On the
opening day, June 80, the burial of the
subject of the theosophist test will be
made; Wednesday, July 2, the most
magnificent floral parade, composed of
hundreds OF flower decked floats, led by
the carnival queen in her $1,000 char
lot. Thursday, July 3, Carrie Nation,
the great saloon wrecker will lecture to
the people, and may incidentally break
UP a few plate glass mirrors and ma
hogany bars. Friday, July 4, $4,000
worth of fireworks will be shown, the
greatest exhibition of its kind ever at
tempted this side of Chicago. Satur-
day is Marshalltown day, and the time
set for the disentombment of the bur-
led Hindoo adept. The company has
outdone itself in the effort to give CEN
trail Iowa a show such as it has never
before dreamed of. Not only a place of
amusement, but of instruction. They
have raked the face of the earth for
clean, high-cla features. Everything
will be clean. quiet and interesting. Let
every one come. No one can afford to
miss it. The week of June 80 to July
will be we'll spent at Marshalltown'
great carnival circus.
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