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According to Earl Shipley, “My home town.” The Billboard, Chicago, Illinois, “Only a Clown, anywhere U.S.A.” Earl Shipley,” A Tramp on and Off” says the comment on the page.
Vic Shepherd, “My home town is Toronto Canada. “Just a forlorn accident of birth.” (September 15, 1924). My tricks on bars are few. In fact there are only three kinds. I’m a wonder to the folks back home- to keep this rep. (reputation) I’m content to some.”
Jimmy (James) Dugger was a Contortionist with the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus. He left the circus, after 5 years and married a local girl in Detroit in 1927. He owned a China shop for many years. He died at age 93 in 1988.
