An email that I received on December 17, 2009
From: Jack Page [mailto:jackkf5bd at juno dot com]
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:49 PM
To: Everything Bicycles
Cc: Robert Alderisio
Subject: Shelby Cycle company 29 era
This writer is 90 years old now and I remember buying two bikes from the factory in 1929. One for me and one for my sister. I bought the bikes with $50.00 I won for selling Woman’s World Magazine subxcriptions in a national contest. I was second place in the USA and first place in Ohio. Plus I earned a quarter for each sale. The subscription price was fifty cents for 12 months. The News paper there in Shelby is called Daily Globe as it was back in 1929. The Globe’s archives show my picture and a little write up about me. 
Today a ten year old kid could not do it. That is it would not be safe for a kid traveling around to surrounding towns and working all of the houses in a given town. One advantage then was that people were most always home and a lot of them bought from me. The BIG depression was going on then too.
I also was a Boy Scout in Shelby. Our Scoutmaster was Wayne Carlton and he was the sales mgr for the factory. They furnished us bikes to ride on camp-for-alls at nearby towns . I was part of the team that rode the 4 seated bike that towed a small trailer. We walked up a lot of hills because there was no 10 or 20 speed transmission in those days.
Shortly after getting my new bike I was running my paper route and collided head on with a 1928 Chev coupe that was owned by Mr. Hayes owner of the greenhouse in Shelby. I sailed up over the front of the car and landed on the trunk lid. No harm then to me but the bike was totaled. He was making an illegal u turn in front of the fire house. He bought me another brand new Shelby bike.I was running about ten miles per hour and he was going very slow or stopped. Today I have a partially blind eye that does see straight ahead anymore. It may be that my collision with the car jarred my body or my head in such a way as to damage something internally. We don’t really know. And we did not go the hospital or a Doctor to get an examination as one might today.
A friend of mine gave me your web page address and that is how we found you to pass this yarn on to you-------a little bit of history RE SHELBY BIKES.  I retired a salesman.
Merry Christmas .  Jack W. Page,  Albuquerque, NM USA