Miles in Six Days Won Great Bicycle Race Champion
William Martin, an Irish American born in Dublin, wins the New York six day race setting a record. The rider, aged in his years, is praised for endurance and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco.
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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1891
Page
7
William Martin, an Irish American born in Dublin, wins the New York six day race setting a record. The rider, aged in his years, is praised for endurance and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions addresses and products like Ely's Cream, a Dr. or retailer in Boston mass and Woodward Ave. It references pneumonia and coughs with names like Robt ksport and Chie Ision, and claims of cures by various medicines. The text is unclear and partial.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad offers round trip tickets from all North Carolina stations to Raleigh for Exposition travel at greatly reduced rates. Tickets are valid until December 3, 1891, with special sale tickets on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays for seven days from sale at one cent per mile. For details contact your station agent or W A Turk AGP Charlotte NC.
The Cary Hotel in Cary North Carolina promotes its location on the Richmond and Danville railroad and Raleigh and Augusta Air Line with frequent service to Raleigh. It offers well furnished rooms and a city market table, advertising a special one dollar per day Expo rate. The note mentions train schedules and touts Simmons Liver Regulator.
If you are not feeling strong and healthy, try Electris Bitters. This remedy acts directly on liver, stomach and kidneys to aid their function. For sick headache you will find speedy relief. One trial will convince you. Large bottles 50c at John Y. MacRae's drugstore. Also Simmons Liver Regulator as a vegetable substitute for pills curing sick headache.
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