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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

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... altogether apart from the question of the safety of tiie town, and the illegality of the Watch Committee's action. George Francis Train, the globe trotting, inventor of tramways, has completed his scamper round the world. He has done it over beaten tracks ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1483 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MAN IN THE STREET

... wealthy, bub the aggregate wealth of the masse? has also advanced by bounds. Ib is worse etill in obher countries. George Francis Train is a citi;;eu of the world, j but mostly Irish-American. Although a citizen of the world 1 doubt whether the world ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5109 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... commission. Previous to his occupation of the White ouse, the President-to-be was generally known as Major McKinley. George Francis Train—the most picturesque citizen of the United States—the man who first broke the Jules Verne record of Round the World ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1898
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1626 | Page: 6 | Tags: none