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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 

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

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

BUSY 50 YEARS

... and trolley buses (says a Manchester Guardian gossip), it may be recalled that it was just eighty years ago that George Francis Train started the world s first tramway system in New York. Called in his lifetime the Champion Crank, Train was born in ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1938
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHIPPING DISASTERS

... Signori Campanini, Kuncio, Gallassi, Del Puente, David, &c., with Signor Ardito conductor. G. F. Train’s Latest. —George Francis Train physiologised a wild steer on Sept. 1. The animal was racing through Central Park, New York, tossing men, women, and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RAILWAYS

... the autocar or horseless carriage will come soon, and will come to stay. It may be pointed out, however, that when George Francis Train came across to this 'country from the United States to advocate the formation of tramways he was ridiculed being a ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1896
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 732 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FENIANS

... detained under ithe Lord-Lieutenant's warrant, On the arrival of the Scotia at Cork, on Friday night, the notorious George Francis Train, Mr Grinnell, a Boston mer- I chant, and a person named Gee, a commercial traveller, were arrested by the police on ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1868
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 814 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GOSSIP FROM THE WORLD

... rates. The deflacatious aro reported 1to be heavy, i N IlOUNI) T'uI WOI:LI IN 67 DAw.-A Tacoma I telegram says that George Francis Train coropletei ibie vrorlt cirelingt trip onl Sunday niht5 arriving there at seven o'clock in fine health and spilitS. ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1890
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OBITUARY

... OBITUARY. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. inventor street A Router's telegram from New ,r g9 day states that the death is announced « Francis Train, political speaker and A Boston man birth, G. 1 connected with the shaping hrni cousin, Colonel Enooh Train- a line ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1904
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, TEMPERATURE, AND RAIN-FALL, IN THE EIGHT PRINCIPAL TOWNS OF SCOTLAND

... Conservatives and 34 Radicals. The number of county petitions s not yet accurately ascertained. *e The brief career of Mr George Francis Train, ex-remway id projector, and political fanatic, in this country, has come to Le a termination. On Saturday he was formally ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1868
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1253 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

FAIRS AND MARKETS FOR DECEMBER

... Omrnibus Company, he soon establshed'-. ial na excellent and cheap omnibus service. He also isr joined the notorious George Francis Train iu building Wrj and working the first tramway in Londo. Hedis- ip approved, howveir, of the raised rail, aud thiis: ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1282 | Page: 6 | Tags: News