Corsicana Times

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FIRST CIRCUS TO APPEAR IN CORSICANA
Corsicana Times, June 5th 1857
Robinson's Menagerie and Circus will exhibit in Corsicana next Monday and Tuesday. The Company is considered to be the best in the United States at present time, according to the newspaper reports. A small specimen of the fair sex is in the shape of a young girl of 18 years, weighting 600 pounds net. She is represented as being handsome and can dance as light as a feather. All wishing to see the elephant and Indian can now have the opportunity.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL
Corsicana Times, January 1857
Mail arrives from Galveston via Springfield on Mondays at 6 A.M. Arrives from Austin and Dallas via Taos on Tuesday at 6 P.M. Departs for Austin and Dallas via Taos Tuesdays at 7 a.m. Departs for Galveston via Springfield Sundays at 6 a.m. L. T. Wheeler, postmaster.