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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
3
A detailed guide urges car owners to inspect rear axles transmissions and engine bearings, then prepare parts lists and begin a full cleaning and rebuild. Steps include draining oil, removing carbon, grinding valves, installing a new gasket, and ensuring all fasteners and ignition components are secure before sending the cooling and starting systems to a service station.
A Popular Mechanics Magazine sketch explains using compressed air to oil leaf springs. Readers learn a quick method: jack the car, apply air along the spring to push oil into gaps, aided by a tie-valve nozzle. graphite powder may help lasting lubrication. John A. Linor, New Haven, Conn.
Washington March 23 Rear Admiral William Benson then chief of naval operations admitted he told Admiral Sims not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes and that the remark was made during conversations in the office of Rear Admiral Palmer and again six months later in London The testimony comes as the senate committee probes the navy wartime conduct and anti British sentiment within the service.
The article discusses sediment traps fitted at the outlet of gasoline tanks. It notes the traps have a wire gauze screen and a cup to gate foreign matter, urging car owners to clean the trap twice monthly during operation as impurities accumulate quickly in the fuel.
Immigration officials report relief ships will carry over 400 Russians Finns and Poles deemed to advocate violence to overthrow the government. Groups will depart from New York on ships operated by the United States Grain Corporation and commercial vessels. Russians and Finns likely to Hangro Danzig or Hangro frontiers with rail connections. Poles to Danzig as food ships.
Chicago faces a growing strike risk as teamsters chauffeurs clerks and other city workers vote to quit in protest of pay. Teamsters demand 11 dollars per day for a man and team and chauffeurs seek 3 additional dollars while clerks push for a 35 dollar monthly raise. Police and fire personnel also demand higher annual pay amid service disruptions to street cleaning and public health responses.
Automobile hints discuss spark plug cleanliness carbon disulphide soaking for insulation complaints about short circuits mainly in batteries wind shield cleanliness in snow fog gasoline aging in tanks caution about motor car body strength vs locomotives and wheel locking devices emergency equipment for motorists and truck dimensions to fit local ordinances.
Chimga March 23 R H Aishton former president of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad and regional director of the Northwest for the federal railroad administration during the war has been asked to retain the presidency of the American Railroad association by its advisory committee and has consented. He was elected to the office in June 1919. His salary is said to be $40 000 a year. He will have his headquarters in Chicago instead of New York.
The Ola ham corporation commission was en joined by the Supreme court from balting the Oklahoma Operation cam pany, Speriting Innodries in Oklahoma City, In contempt on charges of violating the commission marks about laundry prices.
Grains and provisions open with futures quotes and spot prices. Cattle hog and lambs shown with receipts and price ranges at Buffalo and an extended market table listing rye flour hay eggs and creamery products with varying scores and packaging details.
New York reports a price cut across standard shoes for spring and summer by Metall Shoe Dealers association president John J. Slater. Retailers agreed to smaller profit margins while fancy and ultrafashionable footwear are excluded. Arthur Williams, federal footwear administrator, notes reductions may presage narrower margins in other wearing apparel.
Olympia March 23 reports the Washington senate unanimously passed a resolution ratifying the federal suffrage amendment after the house had already approved it. Washington becomes the thirty fifth state to ratify, with only one more state needed to make the amendment effective for the next presidential election.
A collage of dialog demonstrates editor reporter tension over phrasing and bias. Vignettes touch on divorce proceedings, a new wireless distress call system, and a quip about beauty specialists and human nature, with brief remarks from a Birmingham newspaper.
A weary traveler asks if there is more to eat at the counter display in the railroad bedroom. An attendant replies with grim humor that there is nothing to eat, claiming the person only has to cil it, reflecting a quirky Home Sector tone.
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