Diesel engines and public utilities in early 20th century discourse
A columnist surveys innovations in propulsion noting a diesel engine’s fuel flexibility and higher efficiency than gasoline. The piece contrasts Chanute Kansas with Fall River Massachusetts in public ownership debates, follows stories of polio survivors and a fashion-minded survivor, and closes with pheasant restocking efforts and the spread of imported pheasants for sport.
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Chanute
Kansas
America
Fall River
Massachusetts
Chevrolet Price List Shows Historic High in 1913 model
A 1913 Chevrolet listed at 2500 dollars as the highest price for a standard model. The old car weighed about 3700 pounds with a 120 inch wheelbase and brass headlamps, a stark contrast to modern Chevrolets. Since 1922 prices above a thousand dollars disappeared, and today Chevrolets range from 475 to 675 dollars despite a larger 1931 model lineup.
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Chevrolet
Pension incentives and Chicago seaport dreams
The piece discusses broad pension expansion across society from veterans to civil servants and teachers, suggesting eventual universal adoption. It also notes Chicago’s ambition to become a seaport via a St Lawrence to Great Lakes waterway, along with a look at infantile paralysis epidemics in the East and the unknowns of its cause and cure.
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Western University
al Smith
New York
Chicago
St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
United States
Roose
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Louise Bernhardt
Boston
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San Francisco
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