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A clown from a past Circus Parade. | Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Circus Wagons on Their Way to Milwaukee
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Jim Doyle stood in front of a 106-year-old circus wagon on Wednesday to tout the return of the Great Circus Parade to Milwaukee on July 12. Like a second wagon parked around the corner, the bright red "United States Band Tableau" wagon was on its way to Milwaukee from the Circus World Museum in Baraboo. The parade is being staged for the first time in six years. Museum executive director Steve Freese says about half a million people are expected. Freese says the wagon Doyle stood in front of was purchased in 1903 by Ringling Brothers for $1,500 and it's now worth more than $1 million. It's one of more than 50 wagons that will be in what's meant to be a re-creation of circus parades of the early 1900s, but on an even grander scale. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) |
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