Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — THE BICYCLE OF THE PAST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE BICYCLE OF THE PAST.

A Wheel That Was Built in the Winter of 1868-’G9. The bicycle represented here was built in the winter of 1868-’G9 by T. N. Phillips, of Farmington, IIL Mr. Phillips, in speaking of his youthful experience in building and riding this machine, says: “People said that such a thing could not be ridden. Men told

father that If they had a boy that would try to ride a thing like that they would put him in the insane asylum.” Husband—“We must be more economical in the use of coal.” Wife (a Vassar graduate)—“There are untold billions of tons of coal just beneath the earth’s surface, and ” Husband—- “ And one or two big corporations Just above.”—New York Weekly,

THE WHEEL OF ’69.