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RICE AND DORE'S WATER CIRCUS
RICE AND DORE'S WATER CIRCUS. Making its first appearance in Dubuque in August, 1915 the circus consisted of twenty or more expert swimmers and divers performing in a tank estimated at thirty feet long, twenty feet wide, and ten feet deep mounted on a large barge. One diver performed from a ladder said to be one hundred feet high. The "crowning feature" was 'Neptune and his Nymphs' who performed underwater for fifteen or twenty minutes without appearing to come to the surface.
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Source:
"Good Swimmers at Water Circus," Telegraph-Herald, August 27, 1915, p. 13
