Don Elder

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FROM UNKNOWN EPISODE

Born in Belvidere. Was on vaudeville team with Aiden Fitzpatrick as half-bicycle and half dresser-set. - compiled by Richard E. Hunton

Gus Cheebawater

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From DeKalb, Illinois; left there to move to Tulsa, Kansas.  In Tulsa, Kansas he married a woman seventeen years old, went into the Automatic Saxophone business, taught himself to ride horseback without any horse, successfully passed fourteen nickels in counterfeit money he'd made at home himself out of ordinary gingerbread, spent one whole winter sleeping on the handlebars of a bicycle to win a fifteen-cent bet - and later died.

Steve Yowper

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From Belvidere; got into a "rassling" match with a fellow who had a thermometer - when the thermometer got up to 100 in the shade he got overheated, asked for a glass of cold lemonade, climbed on his bicycle, waved to the girl he was gonna marry, keeled over and kicked the bucket in "19 aught 10." He would have been 47 his next birthday.

Ned Burlihy

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21 years old from Union Grove, Illinois.  He married a woman 17 years old. His landlady put molasses on the table every meal and Ned didn't like it.  He decided to learn to like it, so he quit work and spent one year, devoting his entire time to sitting around in his bedroom with a molasses cruet and a tablespoon trying to enjoy the stuff.  He built a fire and melted down a bicycle.

Mr. Powers

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Lived in Mis' Harris rooming house in 1934.  Rented a shed from Sade for 15 cents a month; used it for more than 3 months and only paid one month's rent.  Liked to sit in the shed in the evenings and smoke his pipe.  Road his bike on the Gook grass even after being asked by Sade not to do so.

Ed McNilch

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Vic read in the newspaper that he invented a bicycle that could say, "Mama."

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Clifton Hosternflitch

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Married a Winona, Minnesota woman 21 years old (he was 24.) He tried to teach a bicycle how to kick.  People thought that he had gone out of his head but after four years of hard work he succeeded in teaching the bicycle to kick! [His last name could be "Hostenfoot."]

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