Friday, November 26, 2010

Ledger Time

NEW YORK, May 14. – The celebrated Bonner team trotted 2 miles on the fashion course yesterday in five minutes, one and a quarter seconds.  Bonner drove himself.  This is said to be 17½ seconds quicker than the same distance ever before known.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 3

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