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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT HOME

... GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT HOME. We have received half a page of the New York Sun of December 22, with these few words: —“Home, Christmas, 1870. Sony I did net see it. Shall leave America for France in sixty days. Train.” The print relates to the interview ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1871
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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 

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

IHE STONEHAVEN JOURNAL, rHUKSUAV. October 27, 1370

... nature of these negotiations, there seems little hope of the place holding out much longer. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AT MARSEILLES. Marseilles, Oct. 22. George Francis Train, the American, has arrived here from San Francisco. He was present at meeting held at the ...

Published: Thursday 27 October 1870
Newspaper: Stonehaven Journal
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 4 | 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

PACTS AND FANCIES

... per. world , I WIIIFD'f OF FORT: NIL , pusget of gold. the i weiglied 1511 b., and has larAist ever taken from the es George Francis Train witnessed a gregter. He dropped in at the fever was at its height, found • f oe'er-do•well, who had roamed . wide - ...

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... attack was made the Martello Tower at Duncannon Saturday morning; and says also that important documents were found with George Francis Train when arrested. The correspondent adds that Train has been lodged in Cork County Gaol, that the American Cabinet has ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1868
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 8 | 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

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