Automobile News Highlights From Farm to Fast Motors
The piece describes a multi compartment car with sleeping and dining areas, a kitchenette, and a 3000 rpm test motor from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It covers Connecticut motor law changes on brakes mufflers and warning signals plus a note on a high speed run by Malley of Tonopah and a Pacifi Coast route decision by Indiana automobile makers.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Studebaker
David G. Gallup
Connecticut
Best Auto Route to Washington D C
Guide to motor routes from Wilmington to Baltimore via Newark Elkton Havre de Grace and Belair with an alternate Kirkwood Middletown Frederick town Chestertown Tolchester Beach steamer to Baltimore Regular summer schedule shows boat times From Albany scenic NY loop Sharon Springs Richfield Springs Cooperstown notes toll gate abolition in Syracuse Fayetteville road and state improvement plan Fuel Committee proposes $20000 auto industry lab in Detroit or Indianapolis with testing for heavy fuels in wake of gas shortage. stockpiled methods for washing sheets using soda and hot water described.
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Wilmington
Baltimore
Washington
Newark
Elkton
Havre de Grace
Belair
The
Automobile Club of America
Kirkwood
Middletown
Fredericktown
Chestertown
Tolchester Beach
Albany
Sharon Springs
Richfeld Springs
Cooperstown
New York State
Sharon
Richfield
Vermont
Adirondacks
Society of Automobile Engineers
E. E. Sweet
C. E. Grimes
N. B. Pope
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Detroit
Indianapolis
Westport Business Men Push Oiling Plan and Bridge Repairs
Westport business men consider an indignation meeting to press the Public Utilities Commission over delayed oiling of state roads and the State Street bridge. Selectmen report they urged the trolley company and highway department, while Conn Co repairs on Bridge Street progress amid humor from a drum corps and a stray pig. A church picnic to Savin Rock is planned for July 30 with six large cars, plus a charity fair by the Women’s Town Improvement Association and funeral services for Mrs. Mary A. Underwood.
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Westport
State Street Bridge
Public Utilities Commission
Acton
Board of Selectmen
State Highway Department
State Street
The
Connecticut Co
Ruland
Conn. Co
Selectman
Coley
Bridge Street
Georgia
Savin Rock
the Rock
Women's Town Improvement Association
Desert Run Highlights Ponopah Sheriff Candidate
The Ponopah Nevada scene spotlights a sheriff candidate making a rapid desert run in New Marion on July 17. Local coverage notes the quick trek and underscores his drive to secure desert frontier support.
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Omopah
Fast Desert
New Marion
Ponopah
Nevada
Ene Cpaericn
Uneeda Biscuit Package Sold at Grocer's Counter
A brief scene shows a moisture proof Uneeda Biscuit package exchanged for coin at a grocer's counter. The narrator extols the biscuit as the most nutritious flour based food, clean and delicious as when fresh from the oven, in a National Biscuit Company promotion.
Landowners Urged to Secure Permits for New Pavement
State officials warn residents to obtain permits before digging for the new road surface to avoid fines and avoid tearing up the pavement later. Supervisor Donnelly can be reached at his Clarsoe street home in Bridgeport and residents are urged to write him promptly. The George Bunnell estate on the state road will be auctioned Saturday July 26 featuring the mansion, sixteen acres, three barns, a gardener's cottage, trees, shrubbery, artesian well water and electric lights along a notable trolley-line showplace.
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Emmet Donnelly
State Department
Donnelly
Clarsoe Street
Bridgeport
George Bunnell
State Road
Bunnell
Fairfield Life Saving Station Probable Site Found
Fairfield July 17 Sheriff Elwood reports road work hampering travel with oil and patches. His car struck a bump twisting the rear wheel after hitting a patch hole near Fred Sturges place. A new wheel fixed the damage. Nearby a stump cutter at 0 G Jennings’s land draws attention as a novel invention.
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Corres
Fairfield
Elwood
Fred Sturges
Gas Company
G. Jennings
Girla Club
Ivy
Frank McNamara
Maurice Sullivan
Bacon
Monroe Man Albert Fohrenbach Jr Dies at ?Bridgeport
Albert Fohrenbach Jr formerly of Monroe died at his Bridgeport home 135 Hillside avenue after months of illness. He was T1 years old and survived by two sons Albert Jr and Frank and three daughters Josephine Alheer Cresence Traub and Anna Douglass. The funeral was held from his late home Friday at 8:30 a m and from St Joseph's church at 8. Interment was in Monroe Cemetery beside his wife who died earlier. Elizabeth Beardsley widow of Dr Edward Beardsley celebrated her 88th birthday on Saturday.
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Albert Fohrenbach, Jr
Monroe
Hillside Avenue
Bridgeport
Fohrenbach
Albert Jr
Frank
Josephine Alheer
Cresence Traub
Anna Douglass
St. Joseph’s Church
Monroe Cemetery
N Y Wholesale Prices Old Time Market Hints
A listing of New York wholesale prices for butter eggs fruits hay poultry and vegetables with detailed grades and per unit costs. Includes butter creamery extras eggs fresh gathered rates poultry prices and Long Island Jersey and other potatoes onions beans squash and corn. A Cornell professor urges students to borrow for courses but cautions against borrowing too much.
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Hennery
Hennery Brown
Jersey
Long Island
Hubbard
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Automobile News
Malley
Tonopah
Marion
Indiana Automobile Manufacturers’ Association
Pacific Coast
Fay
Washington, D. C
Tolchester
Supreme Court
Syracuse
Fayetteville
Wm. C. Hunt
Manlius
Utilities ‘Commission
Mary A. Underwood
Harry Woodworth
Riverside Avenue
William C. H. Moe
Congregational Church
Charles Miller
Springwoode of
Norwalk
Standard Oil Company
Ane AR Oil Company of
New York
LEE Bros
MAIN
Congress ST
Grand Rapids For Co
Leonard
Ranney
Axminster
Brussels
Beach
Wakeman
Newtown
Alfred
Perry
Virginia
Raymond Ives
David Winton
Stratford
Peck
William Sherwood
Banks North
Do. N. Choate
Greenfield
Ruth Giles
Wim. Giles
Dunham
April
Hope Chapel
Burr
Center Street
New Jersey
Christian Endeavor Society
Fairfield Beach
W. O. Burr
U. S
John E. Boyle
Blondell
Charles Blondell
Jamaica
R. I
Robert Goldsborough
New York City
John H. Hawkins
Beardsley
New London
Bennett
Hartford
Rice
Aimee Leavers
R. J
Bilizabeth Beardsley
Geneva Beardsley
Pearl Wales
Hampton
Samuel W. Smith
Ansonia
N. Y
Cornell
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