The Wheelmans Gazette, Vol 3, No 12
Articles in this issue
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The Peoria Bicycle Club's Nick Mertes sets a new American amateur record of 289 miles in 24 hours on an ordinary American Champion, bettering all previous performances and marking the record on the front wheel of his Light Champion.
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Of thirteen starters in the Sporting Life 100-mile road race in Philadelphia, only two finished — and both rode Victor bicycles, with both men breaking the existing American amateur record, which already belonged to the Victor.
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A humorous fiction piece follows a newspaper reporter who, after twelve years without a holiday, finally convinces his editor to grant him nine months' leave so he and his wife can tour England on their tandem tricycle.
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Gormully and Jeffery advertise the Standard, Brook Ideal, and Excelsior cyclometers as essential tools for recording a season's mileage, noting a few old-style Excelsiors remain at the bargain price of $5.00.
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Gormully and Jeffery suggest their Ideal juvenile bicycles and tricycles make ideal Christmas presents, promoting H. T. Hearsey as the central Indiana agent at 147 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis.
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The Ware Manufacturing Co. announces U.S. agents for the Warwick Perfection Bicycle and Safety are now in place, directing inquiries to dealers in Orange NJ, St. Louis, and Lincoln, Nebraska.
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H. B. Smith Machine Co. of Smithville NJ claims the Star holds accepted world records on the road from 150 to 305 miles, world safety records on the track from 1 to 20 miles, and won all first premiums in competition since 1881.
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The publishers announce that Volume III of the Wheelmen's Gazette, covering the full year 1888, is available in a handsome cloth binding stamped in gold at $1.50, with a combined volume III and one-year subscription offered for $1.75.