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CYCLING CHAT

... accounts showed a lair balance on the right side; while the club has now a membership of fifty, which is a considerable Lerease upon last year. A letter was read from the Liberal Cycling Club, asking if the club would be willing to join in a ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1891
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... up the amount sacrificed by the reduction. A good many arguments may be advanced, I dare say, both for and against a cycle tax. But unless it could be made to reach practically all cycle users, and to yield a substantial profit to the revenue, it stands ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1898
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 634 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Women's chat

... dingy, and faded in the bright spring sunlight, sofa cushions bear a crumpled aspect, a new low is needed here, a new cord or flower necessary there, in fact at this season there are a hundred and one little detail,, that need attention, if we would have ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1899
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 714 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... when arrayed in a garb which fits him like a rig -out of tights, it does a fellow's eyes good to see that a more rational dress is coming into vogue. Once upon a time a pair of skintight breeches and equally ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1891
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1481 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... urbanity, now persuading a lazy dancing man to make up a set, and then introducing him to a drooping wallflower. Mr Armstrong was also responsible for the programme, on the back of which was to be seen a well-executed figure of a wheelman ...

Published: Thursday 13 November 1890
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... ran to Moorend, a mile past Thursby, under the command of Mr H. Mawson, captain of the club. This riew club has a large membership, and promises to have a successful career. Mr S. P. Foster, its president, has offered to give a prize for a ...

Published: Friday 16 May 1890
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 597 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... as if he was travelling over smooth asphalte on a machine of ordinary tyre. On muddy roads, the pneumatic tyre has a great advantage over the old. It does not pass through the mud, but over it, leaving a broad ribbonlike band on the road, about one inch ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1890
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 736 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Women's Chat

... at 6.15 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Sundays. Box cleared of Local Letters at 6.15 a.m. for all parts, 6.30 p.m. 11AVER100 T. 5.0. : Week Days Only. Box cleared at 8.40 a.m., and 7.15 p.m. WALL. BOXES as follows: l3orwick Rails 8 a.m. 445 Holborn Hill 9 ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1899
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1208 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... similar to that at Carlisle they missed nothing. Already I have heard a number of A Cinder Track. racing cyclists bewailing the want of a good cinder track. Certainly it would be a boon to them, especially as the racing season will be upon us before the ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1896
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1207 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... Only. Only a tangle of twisted wire, Only a busted pneumatic tire, Only a header in deep black mire, Only a short sharp nail. Only a suit of clothes all torn, Only a lump on the head next morn. While two black ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1894
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... departed in as leisurely a manner as possible consistent with a due regard to canine dignity. Headquarters was reached shortly after 6 o'clock, where a combination tea and supper was heartily enjoyed. A fitting wind-up was the monthly concert, which many ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1891
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CYCLING CHAT

... with two or three others of a like kidney, as far as Lockerbie. This was not so bad for a man who has not crossed a machine for something over 12 months (with the exception of two or three short runs on a machine lent him by a friend). I ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1893
Newspaper: North Cumberland Reformer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1890 | Page: 4 | Tags: none