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Springs Valley Herald
(May 6, 1915)
Bob Flick, who had
been the Herald devil for nearly two years got afflicted by the wander lust
last week and left with Gentry's show as a roustabout. Bob had been thinking
seriously of joining the Navy, but decided that show life was more attractive
and easier to quit in case it got monotonous. He will probably arrive
in French Lick before many moons.
Springs Valley Herald
(May 20, 1915)
Bob
Flick arrived home yesterday evening after a two weeks sojourn with Gentry's
show. Bob was with them at Louisville and Indianapolis, where they played a
week's stand at either place, but grew tired of the tinsel and gaudy equipage,
the white lights, the glamour and especially the long hours of work and the
catch-as-catch-can style of sleeping. So when the show got ready to put out of
Indianapolis Bob tendered his resignation, thinking to draw his accumulation of
salary and return to his mother, but the show people gave him to understand
that he had forfeited his wages by having the presumption to ask for it without
giving at least two weeks notice. Bob says he thought the position he was
filling was not so important as all that, and he had to bid farewell to the
ponies, the tented field and brilliant arena, Dr. Dooley, Mr. and Mrs. Snyler
and the whole push as well as his two week's accumulation of hard earned salary
and pensively return to "Old French Lick". He is open for engagement
for the first legitimate job that turns up, but don't care for any more circus |