THE BICYCLE IN 1993. - Akron Daily Democrat, Akron, Ohio 26 May 1893

Illustrated with two drawings of early "safety" bicycles and a more modern (to 1919) model at the bottom, the text: "A generation ago the bicycle was known only to a few. Today it is the favorite means of locomotion of the multitudes. At first regarded with doubt and disfavor, every objection has been successfully overcome, and the acknowledged healthful tendencies of wheeling have contributed much toward its popularity with both sexes all over the world. As a means of exercise the bicycle brings into alert and healthful activity every nerve, muscle and faculty. It moves with its rider like a thing of life, and adds to the mere physical exercise the exhilaration of rapid flight in the open air and the interest of constantly changing scenes. The training of the eye and ear, the alertness and suppleness of limb and joint and muscle, the quick observation, the habits of prompt decision and self-reliance necessarily developed by bicycling, are such as to cause it to lead in these respects every form of outdoor exercise. Not within 200 years has any one thing so benefited mankind as the invention of the bicycle."