Date (happened)
c. 1928
(possible)
no year appears in the recovered OCR; 1928 is asserted only by the article's own title
A Brooklyn paper reports the opening of the Brooklyn County Fair exposition at the 106th Regiment Armory, to run all week with special attractions each night. Coney Island, the reporter says, had moved to the Armory. Among the attractions: Gangler's Circus, a performing seal, Angle Costillo with her trained lions, 'Zaza' a sensational snake in its first appearance in this country, a crystal gazer, a four-legged boy, a 'lobster boy', the smallest pony in the world, a Punch and Judy show, a Hawaiian night, a Lodge for the Blind stand, a new apple called the 'Golden Starks' handed out in samples, and a flea circus in which one flea weighing an eighth of a grain pushed a silver pinwheel studded with diamonds while others danced the black bottom.
Also among the attractions, and the reason this clipping sits in the Abdullah research file: a figure in yellow and red silk turban and robes, 'supposedly a beautiful woman' — the reporter noting a growth of beard beneath it — telling fortunes. The clipping gives no name for this person, and no identification is made here.