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[[Image:howelon.png|left|thumb|250px|June, 1875 advertisement. Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald]]
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[[Image:howed.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/circus/backyard/item/272]]HOWE'S GREAT LONDON CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE. Howe's circus was to arrive in Dubuque on the second week of July, 1875. It came to town again on August 23, 1878.
[[Image:howed.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/circus/backyard/item/272]]HOWE'S GREAT LONDON CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE. Howe's circus was to arrive in Dubuque on the second week of July, 1875. It came to town again on August 23, 1878.

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June, 1875 advertisement. Photo courtesy: Telegraph Herald

HOWE'S GREAT LONDON CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE. Howe's circus was to arrive in Dubuque on the second week of July, 1875. It came to town again on August 23, 1878.

For more information on the Howe circus and fascinating pictures of the circus equipment see Circus World--http://www.circuswagons.org/floats/howes-dragon-float/

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"A Big Show and Big Crowds," The Daily Herald, July 4, 1875, p. 4