Show glrst circus exhibit P T barnum launched his career in the show business by exhibiting a remarkable negro woman believed to be IGO years old and said to have been a I 1 nurse to george washington ap all old bill or of sale was exhibited properly dated concerning joyce heth then 54 years old and evidence aas as also furnished that she was as nurse to george washington ashington lV everything seemed so straightforward straight forward to the young man that he was eager to become the proprietor of this novel noved exhibition which he purchased for 1000 of which N lie he paid down selling out his interest in 1 I the grocery business and the the other he borrowed lie he saw that the thing to do was to make people talk and become curious and excited over rare spectacles regardless of expense he be advertised verti sed in new york boston and philadelphia and the halls were nere thronged thron ged until joyce bieth died joe mitchall Mit Alit choll eliell chapple chappie in national magazine |