Tuesday, December 3, 2019

December 3, 1919. The Carlisle News Hits the Press. Bicycles and horses.




Banner headlines appeared in the local press on this day in 1919.


It was a sad end, as we related yesterday.


And already it was noted his wound was not fatal.

And so this phase of the story concluded.

Carlisle, of course, robbed trains, one of the three big means of terrestrial transpiration at the time. . . train, automobile, and horse.

The age of the bicycle, which had already come and gone in North America, but not elsewhere, was still sufficiently recent that these gentlemen turned out, on the same day, with their bikes.


Meanwhile, elsewhere, some well turned out horsewomen posed with their mounts.















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