The Bearings, Vol 6, No 17
Articles in this issue
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Survey of bloomer-wearing habits across American cities: Washington favors somber black close-fitting suits, eastern cities see few knee-breeches, but in Chicago alone the festive bloomer blooms luxuriantly on State Street and Wabash Avenue.
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Sharp rebuke of a Chicago publication and its Sporting Life correspondent for insinuating that eastern riders had their expenses paid in violation of LAW rules, noting that the same publication's employees had worked hard to persuade those very easterners to attend.
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Expose of a New York evening paper dispatch dated from New York that turned out to be a word-for-word copy of an interview written in Minneapolis a month earlier — illustrating the resources of 'New York World' journalism.
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Recommendation to the ladylike New York editor who claims not to read his cycling exchanges to look up a particularly relevant piece in the American Wheelman of Buffalo.
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Observation that a journal unafraid of comparison never fears to name its competitors, drawing an unflattering parallel with the mangy dog that hides a meaty bone.
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A St. Louis Spectator foreman places a note in Recreation column claiming a German doctor says most drunkards can be — the sentence breaks off, implying the thought was confused from the start.