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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5008, 2 August 1926, Page 2

New Zealand cross-trajnpers might take, note that Mr Edward Payson Weston, America’s most famous “hiker,” now aged’ 85, was lasit month found wandering aimlessly unable to take care of himself, and was taken off to a mental hospita.l. He had left a shopman at Philadelphia and did not kiiow in the least how he- had come to. ramble as 'far as New York. It was just habit, no doubt. Mr Weston made his first big walking trip in 1861, when he walked from Boston tel Washington in 208 hours to attend the first inauguration of President Lincoln. But it was not until 1867 that he became, recognised as a serious, professional walker. In that year he gained wide attention by walking from Portland, Maine, to Chicago, 1867 miles in 26 days. His last great walking expedition was in 1913, when he walked from New York to Minneopolis. He then was 75. But the real climax of his career had come three yea,rs previously, when nearly 72 years old, he walked from Santa Monica, California, to New York in 104 days seven hours. The distance covered was 3895 miles. It was; the first time in all the years of his walking career that he abandoned the country roads and walked on railroad tracks. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs. a,nd Colds never fails.