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Show A telegram announces the arrival at Tabreez, Persia, of Thomas Stevens, the American bicyclist. The natives are astonished beyond measure at his bicycle, and think only an Englishman is able to ride one. He is requested to ride before all the prominent men in the cities he passes through. At Angoria, Yuzgot and Sivas, Asiatic Turkey, a guard of zaptiebs was necessary to protect him from the crush of people pressing forward to see him. He travels alone, and has been attacked by robbers only once. He says he managed to turn the tables on them. |