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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON HIMSELF

... GEORGE FRANCIS TRIIN ON HIMSELF. George Francis Train lectured in Boston the other depE evening to an audience of 150 people, and is concisely proc reported by the Y~e~a York Heald as follows :-If he least had been president of some savings bank, Saul ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1129 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

George Francis Train has been pronounced insane. The Alexandra Palace at Muswell Hill, London, will be opened ..

... George Francis Train has been pronounced insane. The Alexandra Palace at Muswell Hill, London, will be opened on the of May. A telegram from Melbourne states that the South Australian wheat harvest is satisfactory, and that there are 180,000 tons available ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1873
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1300 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

G. F. Train's Latest. —George Francis Train pliysiologised a wild steer on Sept. 1. The animal was racing ..

... G. F. Train's Latest. —George Francis Train pliysiologised a wild steer on Sept. 1. The animal was racing through Central Park, New York, tossing men, women, and children on its horns, when the brute suddenly charged squarely the nc'h occupied by Mr Train ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 921 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN ECCENTRIC FASTING MAN

... AN ECCENTRIC FASTING MAN A New York correspondent telegraphs :— George Francis Train, the eccentric individual who claims to have invented tramways, is engaged in a fast, which has already lasted eight days, in order to prove that food is not te sustain ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1889
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JUBILEE OF TRAMWAYS

... ago yesterday, August 30, 1860. first tramway in Europe waa publicly opened at Birkenhead. One those associated with George Francis Train, the originator of thai scheme, was Sir Clifton Robinson, then a boy twelve. Six Clifton ha« given ftome interesting ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1910
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ELECTRIC MOTORS AND MORSES IN A WAIN A

... proved failure. is not generally known that the first advocate the use of tramways in this country was the celebrated George Francis Train, who still alive and advocating the extensive use the electria moles ia New York. fba reawm Mr Train didZToooZJd in ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1895
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BIGGEST FOOL IN AMERICA

... THE BIGGEST FOOL IN AMERICA A story comes from Boston about George Francis Train, which says that soon after Mr Train was released from imprisonment there the other day, being in one of hie most eccentric moods, be collected a little crowd around bim ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1889
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

! } It is stated that there is no foundation ia fact for | | the semsational reports respecting the

... pioneer merchant of Port Townsend, Washington, from that place on a race round the world, with the ; _ object of beating George Francis Train, who has gone on the same jourmey. Port Townsend citizens con- tributed 5000 towards Miss Rothschild’s ex- ‘Hees is ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1890
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STREET TRAMWAYS,

... STREET TRAMWAYS, That spread-eagle Yankee, George Francis Train, whose very loquacious aversion to England arose out the failure of his London tramway, which was equally convenient and inconvenient, will have some reason for his denunciations in the general ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1870
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Last Day Of London’s Trams Londous last trams will dis. appear from the streets at miii. night to-night, ..

... services. One of last strongholds has beer, the Embankment. London's trams —which wen first introduced by an Amcri can, George Francis Train, ir, 1861 —have served the Metropolis for ninety-one years Electrified in the early 1900' they were carrying two-thirri' ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1952
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Last Day Of London’s Trams Londou s last trams will disappear from the strcels at mid night to-night, marking th.

... of th' trams’ last strongholds has beer, the Embankment. London's trams—which wen first introduced by an Amen can. George Francis Train, i, 1861 —have served the Metropolis for ninety-one year Electrified in the early 1000 they were carrying two-thirdof ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1952
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AS INSOLVENT CBAIN 11BRCHANT

... the skin wnooth, supple, healthy, comfortable. labels everywhere. Taa Bigokt Fool a.—A story comes from Beaton about George Francis Train, which says that toon after Train was released from imprisonment there the other day, being iu one of his most ecoeotrio ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1889
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 7 | Tags: none