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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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f their pamphlet issued last season en-titled Wrinkles for Riders. The companywould be pleased to hear from dealers havingduplicate copies. Sixty-six wheelmen, of Dunkirk, N. Y.,organized the Lake City Wheelmen last week.Edward Madigan was elected Chairman, andJohn Wallensak, Secretary, and committeeswere appointed to secure quarters and perfectthe organization. The Racing Board has publicly warned theracing men of the South to fight shy of the newcash prize company formed at Mobile, Ala., topromote racing and is considering the matterof sanctioning amateur events when run inconnection with professional races. The wheelmen of Augusta, Ga., organizeda club last week with Capt. A. F. Austin, Presi-dent; W. T. Field, Vice-President; S. L.Osborn, Secretary; Jno. P. Dill, Treasurer,and W. J. Browne, Captain. There are about500 cyclists in Augusta, and it is the intentionof the promoters of the club to secure theco-operation of the majority of the riders andestablish a club-house. «»93 25
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*^ •=!?> THIS, GENTLEMEN, IS THE FAMOUSBIDWELL FABRIC! This fabric contains the occulta vis of pneumatic tires, the true secret and real principle of all pneu-matic tires. You are well acquainted with the earnest efforts that wrested from nature this last valuablesecret, and how reluctantly she yielded to mans control this new domain of knowledge. If you will examine the peculiar properties of this wonderful fabric you will appreciate the difficultiesunder which those people labor who undertake to build a pneumatic tire upon any other principle. And youwill perceive how their persistent efforts must carry them further and further from the wished-for goal. The great French critic, M. Taine, once remarked that the essential character of a lion is his jaws.Scientifically speaking, a lion is only a pair of enormous jaws mounted upon four paws—everything else abouthim is accessory. So it is, gentlemen, with the pneumatic tire. The fabric is its essential character. Every-thing else

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