The Bearings, Vol 6, No 7
Articles in this issue
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A touching sketch of a careworn elderly woman slowly counting out $75 to buy a bicycle for her ambitious young grandson at a Chicago bicycle shop, illustrating the social reach of the cycling craze.
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J. Perry Worden travels through Europe for $95, parlaying his direct manner and honest explanation of his trip into two days as Gladstone's houseguest and lunch with the Lord Mayor of London.
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Commentary on the increasingly silent race crowds, noting that spectators now understand pacemaking too well to cheer every move, and that only a Zimmerman record attempt can still generate spontaneous enthusiasm.
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An editorial urging desk workers and casual cyclists to keep riding through autumn, praising the healthful beauty of harvested fields and coloured woods as an antidote to winter torpor.
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Columnist Swinkle addresses the question of Sunday opening at the World's Fair, sympathizing with working farmers who have only Sunday free during the fair season and arguing for reasonable accommodation of working people.
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Michigan is reported to rebate half of road taxes to users of wide wagon tires, a precedent the Bearings notes could one day extend to pneumatic bicycle tires as road advocates gain political influence.
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A Hartford newspaper places Zimmerman's 2:06 4/5 mile above a Grover Cleveland political dinner story on its front page, which the Bearings highlights as evidence of cycling's new cultural prominence.