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An Early Story Of Cycling and Thanksgiving from 1880 |

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An Early Story Of Cycling and Thanksgiving from 1880

November 28, 2024 cathcam

A bicycle / cycling story for thanksgiving, original printed in the Paxton Record Newspaper on Thursday, December 2nd, 1880. {fn. The Paxton Record was published in Paxton Illinois}. It is reproduced here without alternation except ....

headline of the original article in the San Francisco Examiner

The Round-the World ‘Cyclist’s Arrival

May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 cathcam

On Thursday I started a twitter thread with old newspaper clippings of interesting cycling news as reported. I thought it would be fun to post at least one every day as a tweet. I started ....