Delco-Light Convention Showcases Rural Electric Advances
Willis reports the Delco-Light convention in Dayton from 18 to 20 featured factory tours of the Delco-Light plant covering a million square feet and a full display of new rural electrical equipment and products. The event drew about 1,500 attendees with talks by R. H. Grant and other officers, plus demonstrations of anti service and financial plans, concluding with a large parade and evening program.
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The Roadster Roadster Has All Essex Qualities for Business and Pleasure
Essex promotes the Roadster as a versatile business companion and smart pleasure car. It cites 25 000 owners and endurance records on a Cincinnati speedway stock chassis while highlighting economy durability regularity and cargo space. Butana Motor Co Butte Montana.
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Essex
Cincinnati Speedway
Iowa
Saving a Nation by American Drivers and Trucks
A March issue feature in Motor chronicles the bravery of American drivers and the efficiency of American motor trucks as they help save a nation, with a vivid description of Armenians confined in a narrow strip of territory surrounded by roaming bandits.
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Motor
Miller Rubber Opens Americanization Classes at Akron Plants
Miller Rubber company starts an Americanization program led by Mrs. Louise F Copp to teach history and American ideals to foreign born workers. Classes run 1.5 hours weekly with ages 7 to 60, not mandatory, and attendance sparked by the employment manager. If successful, similar programs may expand to all factory branches.
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Miller Rubber Company
Abraham Lincoln
Copp
Northwest Auto Company
Miller Tires
Car temperament and race in Motor magazine
W B Stout argues in a March issue that a car reflects the temperament of its producing race. He supports the claim with pictures and notes that without mechanical knowledge even a stripped chassis would be produced by islanders like South Sea inhabitants or the Hot tenfots.
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Ford
W. B. Stout
Motor
South Sea Islanders
Hottenfots
Public schools teach tractor operation in Minneapolis Milana
Public schools of Minneapolis Milana teach motor tractor operation. The text notes that matches were first sold in the United States in 1881 for 1 cent each.
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Minneapolis
Milana
United States
Sweden buying American cars in wartime deals
Observations by European military attaches praise American autos after France and Belgium tests. The Guaranty Trust of New York will honor drafts from Commonwealth Motors Chicago for 167 500 dollars for a month’s shipment of touring cars to Sweden, with future shipments of touring cars and trucks. A Swedish buyer deposited 10 000 dollars in cash to bind the bargain, with balance payments via trade acceptances through the bank’s foreign loans division.
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France
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Commonwealth Motors Company of
Sweden
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Dancers Seek Creative Steps in Automobile Motors
The March issue of Motor magazine profiles top American dancers Bessie McCoy Davis Ann Pennington Mary Eaton and Florence Walton who turn to the engine of a car for inspiration in choreography and movement research.
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Bessie McCoy Davis
Ann Pennington
Mary Eaton
Florence Walton
Motor
National Magazine of Motoring
Make a hub cap from a tin can for emergency use
A March issue of Motor explains a simple method to fashion a hub cap from a tin can. Choose a can of the proper size, cut and slit it, slip over the hub, and bind with wire to seal the bearing and keep grease from leaking in an emergency.
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Motor
Electric lighting and starting systems common in European cars
Nearly all European made automobiles are now fitted with electric lighting and starting systems and in the great majority of cases the two units are employed.
Mrs Bass Emerges as Dynamic Democratic Leader
Edna Huber Church profiles Mrs George Bass of Chicago as the leading female Democrat and head of the Democratic National Committee's Woman's Bureau. She built her career through club work, suffrage activism, and wartime committee service while balancing homemaker duties and public service.
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Edna Huber Church
International News Service
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Women
Democratic Party
George Base
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Bass
Tanks Find Unlikely Civil Jobs in France
French authorities repurpose war tanks for tourism transport in resort areas and snow clearance in northern cities. A Motor magazine writer notes the project proves tanks can perform useful civilian tasks and hints at broader possibilities.
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France
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