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WHE7KE F7*AJVThere is rather a startling reminiscence of the old days of the bicycle , craze in a paragraph written recently • by Col. P. H. H. Massy In the Qeo-grnphical Journal. Col. Massy has done a gToal deal of exploring in Asiatic Turkey and in one of 'ho fastnesses of that country he came across a memento of the late Frank l.cnz, the American bicyclist who was wheeling around tin* world when he was murdered in this little-known section of the world. Col. Massy says: -It was now October. A blinding snow with I bitter wind served as a reminder of the altitude and advancing season. From the lake a route was followed to Toprak Kale (Alashglrd). Along here fairly easy tracks cross into Transcan-I casia. It was here that an oifleia! I asked my opinion of a nice American made revolver. There was an inscription on it which showed that it had been presented to Frank I.enz by some American bicycle club. I returned it with the remark that it was a good revolver which might hare him. At my unexpected reply the official’:; companions looked at him curiously while he appeared visibly agitated Frink 1 on/. ] iftid been murdered near here a couple of years' before while on a bicycle tour | round the world and I knew thlt; story.I p to now this individual was tin er the impression that the inscrii tin \ was either the maker's name or an ornament.”
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Turner County Herald
Hurley, South Dakota, US
Thu, Nov 23, 1905
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