Cycling Notes.
" All About Dunlop Tyres for 1906 " is the title of a beautifully gotten up booklet to hand from the Dunlop Rubber Co. This interesting sample of high-class printing consists of 28 pages of profusely illustrated matter of particular interest and value to all cyclists. New devotees to the wheel will find the brochure full of most
valuable information in reference to the proper use and handling of cycle tyres, whilst many useful hints will prove of value even to old stagers of the wheel. The Dunlop Rubber Co invite all cyclists to send for a copy of their artistic booklet, which can be had gratis on application, or oan be had through their looal cyole agents. The booklet will be found to be well w o rth the trouble of obtaining.
" Looping the Loop " has claimed another victim, the unfortunate person being Mdle de Thiers, who has been recently thrilling Parisian audiences with her wonderful act. This young French artiste used to loop the loop in a motor car ending with a jump across space. During her Paris season all went well, but upon opening her engagement at Lisbon a terrible accident occurred, the car leaving the loop and crashing into the arena below. Every bone in the unfortunate artiste's body was brokon and she died soon after.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 5
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