Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-26 | Page 7 | 'Boy, Page a Hippo Specialist'

WOSPECIflLISr It is whispered gently around the Barnes circus that a most interesting event is Boon to occur. How soon, nobody knows; neither is anybody around the show versed in hippopotamus maternity. Al G. Barnes, himself, who la usually usu-ally able to cope with any animal emergency, is at a loss as to how to proceed; no baby hippos havo over been born in captivity; no precedent has been established; tho show's experts ex-perts are up against it, as It were. If there Ib anyone in this vicinity who has had actual experience in matters of this kind, they will be received re-ceived with open arms when the show gots here on may 4. Money is no object ob-ject In a case of this kind; experience ,,ijju is what counts. Tho two attendants have already I'l n fashioned a nursing bottle out of a )jM a picklo keg and a vulcanized inner fjs m tube, and are preparing for the worst, pjjjy T which 1b yet to cpme.