TOPICS OF THE DAY

... of having made a record will shortly be too longer her's, for all America is to be thrilled with the news that Mr. George Francis Train, the American lecturer, who has seen more than three •core years, has done the journey round the world 62 days. He ...

Published: Monday 12 May 1890
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MILLENNIUM IN TRAIN

... intelligent explanation from you, the editor of my daily guide and instructor in temporal affairs. Now, Sir, either Mr. George Francis- Train, editor of the Penny Mlagazine, published at La Crescent, Minn., is a madman, or-the millennium is at our gates. Let ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1899
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PERSONAL GOSSIP

... upon a racecourse since that day, nor has hie identity been disclosed. This is how an American interviewer de> scribes George Francis Train: In Madison-squsrs under the great maple-tree—there he sat on the bench which be has occupied for one-and-twenty years ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1895
Newspaper: Cornish & Devon Post
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HOLLOWAY TRAGEDY

... Atlantic for hia enerflry*and rare business capacity—that compound of wit and'nonsense, madness and acuteness—Citizen George Francis Train. Citizen Train—who recently passed through London on his way round the world in 60 days—is proud of his distinction ...

INTELLECT AND FAT

... INTELLECT AND FAT. Onr modern philosopher, George Francis Train, who has red need nutrition to the smallest possible amount, and says thrives on it, avers that fat is deadening to the brain, and const too to intellectual activity. But is this so ? Some ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1890
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 446 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

V arntli. AB VIEWED IN AMERICA

... arntli. AB VIEWED IN AMERICA. On October 1, there was a dinner at New York when many newspaper men met, among them George Francis Train, who spoke, and in his usual wild strain. In the middle of his harangue he exclaimed :— Boulanger is dead, Balmaceda ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1891
Newspaper: Anglo-American Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PER SON AL

... wedding to testify in a libel suit. I'll got married to-nigbt if I go to jail for it. The wedding tJok placo. _ _ _ George Francis Train has left for Tacoma, Washington, It honco ho is to start on his rooord•boating tour of the world. This is the itinerary: ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1890
Newspaper: Anglo-American Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

A REMARKABLE MAN

... remarkable men of the country of Mr. Jefferson Brick pawed through Dover on Saturday, in no leas a personage than George Francis Train, who is on a scurry round the world in the attempt to beat Mies Nelly Bly's recently-made record. Mr. Train, wto claims ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1890
Newspaper: Dover Chronicle
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Around the World for Nothing

... the interests of the New York World, Miss Bisland. doing ditto on behalf of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and citizen George Francis Train, who undertook to belt the world in the shot test time on record, partly to demonstrate the importance of Tacoma aa ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1893
Newspaper: Madras Weekly Mail
County: Tamil Nadu, India
Type: Article | Words: 476 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

... exploded at Illinois Steel Works, Chicage, and five workmen were horribly burned and crushed. A Tacoma telegram says that George Francis Train completed his world-circling last night, arriving there at 7 e'clock in fine health and spirits. The trip was made ...

Published: Tuesday 27 May 1890
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 463 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DANISH BUTTER MAKING

... Paresis r.-t for stamps. Ovar Isatlmnnlsrs reoatved (ram medical msu.—CSLEMAN Co., LlMlian, Norwich Sold svaiTvrhets. _ George Francis Train will start from Boston ths 9-b of this month on tonr round tho world, aspects in sixty days.— Dal-M. Mr Webb, Kitionsliat ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1890
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PERSONAL GOSSIP

... making & wager upon since that day, nor has his identity been disclosed, This is how an American interviewer de- scribes George Francis Train: In Madizon-square under the great maple-tree—there he sat on the bench which he has occupied for one-and-twenty years ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1334 | Page: 3 | Tags: none