The entire collection can be found
here.
Wednesday, May 30, 1888 (Beacon)
Eighteen or twenty members of the Bicycle club left this morning on their wheels for Hutchinson, a run of about 50 miles.
Tuesday, July 5, 1892 (Beacon)
Report of 4th of July activities. The bicycle races at the fair grounds attracted a large crowd, and street cars were crowded beyond their capacity.
Tuesday, April 24, 1894 (Eagle)
Article about Griswold's park says estimated nearly 7,000 people visited it last Sunday. It has been thoroughly cleaned up, 150 rustic seats put in, and a bicycle and race track fixed.
Friday, May 18, 1894 (Beacon)
Article about bicycle races at Griswold park last evening.
Friday, February 14, 1896 (Beacon)
A bicycle club was organized last night and it will be known as the Wichita Wheelmen.
Monday, May 17, 1897 (Beacon)
The half mile track at Griswold park is being improved for the bicycle races on Decoration Day.
Thursday, March 10, 1898 (Beacon)
Grounds have been secured for an athletic park in the block between Gilbert and Morris streets nine blocks south of Douglas avenue on Main street. The ground is owned by a number of persons, but year leases have been obtained from all of them, and some with options for renewal. Work will be rapidly pushed on the baseball diamond and enclosure, the latter being 450 feet long, 320 feet wide, and eight feet in height. A grand stand with capacity of 1,500 will be finished in time for opening of the ball season the first week in April. A five lap bicycle track is to be constructed outside the baseball diamond and the street railway company has agreed to install 25 arc lights so that night races can be held.
Saturday, October 20, 1900 (Eagle)
Work on the Fairmount bicycle track has been commenced. The track is on the grade of the old 15th street car line.
Thursday, January 24, 1901 (Beacon)
A. S. Parks has owned an automobile for about one year. He says they are a nice thing just like a bicycle in good weather. When the roads are muddy they are no good.
Friday, December 25, 1908 (Beacon)
F. W. Hockaday, of the Wichita Bicycle and Sporting Goods company, will open up a wholesale and retail motorcycle house at 422 East Douglas, the Hockaday Motorcycle company. The present bicycle business at 240 North Main will continue under management of R. K. Hockaday.
Wednesday, June 30, 1909 (Beacon)
City commission passed ordinance requiring bicycle owners to pay 25¢ a year for a license tag for their bicycles.
Friday, October 7, 1910 (Eagle)
A man on bicycle was struck by Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 403 from Kansas City, pulled by passenger locomotive No. 2732, at 17th street yesterday.
Sunday, June 4, 1911 (Eagle)
Article reporting the following traffic across Douglas avenue bridge on May 1 between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.:
422 automobiles 785 buggies
97 motorcycles 1174 wagons
636 bicycles 427 street cars
72 carriages 10,675 people.
Sunday, March 8, 1914 (Eagle)
Recent count of street traffic passing the corner of East Douglas and Market street in one hour between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. showed 132 automobiles, 66 motorcycles, 48 bicycles, nine buggies and hacks, 96 horse drawn wagons, and 144 streets cars (?).
Thursday, January 12, 1922 (Eagle)
A boy riding a bicycle was struck by a South Water street bus in the fourth block on South
Water yesterday.
Sunday, February 19, 1922 (Beacon)
Interview with George H. Schollenberger regarding the first gasoline auto in Wichita. Says his company is the oldest auto company in the southwest. They started in 1899 as a bicycle company and in December 1900 brought the gasoline automobile to Wichita.
Friday, January 11, 1924 (Eagle)
James L. “Bunny” Mead of Chicago, bicycle manufacturer, was in Wichita yesterday to ransfer seven lots on East Douglas avenue valued at between $250,000 and $500,000 to the First National Bank in Wichita to be held in trust for the Mead children, James, Myron, Theodore, Agnes and Beatrice.
Sunday, December 14, 1924 (Beacon)
Recent poll of 1734 students at high school showed following means of conveyance to school:
Street car 678
Walking 482
Automobile 393
Motor bus 98
Bicycle 83
Sunday, March 15, 1925 (Beacon)
Detailed article about the Wichita Bicycle Club of the 1880s, with photograph and names.
Saturday, August 28, 1937 (Eagle)
Photo of bicycles in front of Wichita theater.
Wednesday, December 8, 1943 (Eagle)
Report of death yesterday of James Lucas “Bunny” Mead, 80, at his home in Evanston, Illinois. Was son of Wichita pioneer, James R. Mead. Born in Towanda in 1863. Last visit to Wichita was about three weeks ago. Began manufacture of bicycles here in 1895 under the name of the Mead Cycle Company, now headquartered in Chicago under direction of his son, James E. Mead, of Evanston.
March 29, 1947 (Eagle)
Report of death yesterday of F. W. “Woody” Hockaday, 63, for many years a well known Wichita business man, in a hospital at Macon, Missouri. Came to Wichita as a youth from Stroud, Oklahoma and established a bicycle and motorcycle shop, later enlarged into an automobile service station. Had been in ill health for the last several years. Burial to be at Old Mission mausoleum.
Friday, May 5, 1950 (Eagle)
Ad for the 40th anniversary of the Hamilton Bicycle Company, 151 North Emporia. Gives
history of the company and photo of C. B. T. Hamilton, proprietor.
Saturday, October 27, 1956 (Eagle)
Hamilton’s Bicycle Store, located for the last 14 years at 151 North Emporia, is moving to a new location at 2106 East Central and will open there on Monday. The shop was founded in 1910 by C. B. T. Hamilton, who 2½ years ago sold it to his daughter, Betty, and her husband (Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Carpenter).
Monday, October 24, 1966 (Eagle - Beacon)
Report of death yesterday of Cecil Brooks Thornton Hamilton, 86, of Kansas Masonic Home, founder of Hamilton Bicycle Company, 2106 East Central. Born at Birmingham, England and came to the United States as an infant and to Wichita in 1910 and opened a bicycle shop a few days after he arrived. Survived by two daughters, Mrs. Bettie Carpenter, Wichita, and Mrs. Maxine Vaught, Oberlin, Ohio, two brothers and one sister (named -- none in Wichita).
Friday, April 9, 1971 (Eagle - Beacon)
Photo of construction on the 12 foot wide asphalt bicycle path along the east bank of the
Arkansas River between Douglas and Lewis. To be completed by mid-summer.
