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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.
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