The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 149
Articles in this issue
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Harry G. Rouse of Peoria, one of the founders of the League of American Wheelmen in 1878 and promoter of the famous Peoria racing meets, died of typhoid fever at age forty; he had been a pioneer Columbia and Crescent dealer and manufacturer of the Sylph and Overland bicycles before business complications forced a suspension in the late 1890s.
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A detailed review of the Inter-Ocean automobile show at Washington Park found its racing program chaotically organized and poorly managed, but acknowledged that the performances of Alexander Winton and motorcyclists Champion and Skinner provided spectacular entertainment, with Champion repeatedly furnishing most of the genuine racing action and beating Winton's time in a disputed fifty-mile event.