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Show HE TRAVELED 2,000.000 MILES IN 47 YEARS ON ONE ROAD Chicago, Feb. 6. More than two million mil-lion miles travoled In forty-seven years in performance of his- duty as a passenger pas-senger conductor on the Illinois Central Cen-tral railroad, is the remarkable record of William Thayer, who is dead from heart failure in Hinsdale. This long period of service was passed on the run between Chicago and Dubuque, a distance of 180 miles, over which Mr. Thayer made about 240 trips a year from 1853 to 1000. He retired eight years ago at the age of 71 years. I |