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The article notes 1916 as a landmark year for highway improvements and cites Willys on national interest in roads. It highlights Ford Motor company's American Club at Detroit, a 634 member group of Ford English school graduates meeting biweekly at the plant theater with songs, films, talks, and plans for a future garden exhibit. It also mentions 2500 students in the Ford English school, with 2200 foreign born and 800 American students studying advanced mathematics, oratory, and psychology.
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Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Mich
Ford “American Club
Ford English School
Ford
Ford Plant
John N Willys Strong Highway Booster
John N Willys president of the Willys Overland company is a staunch supporter of the good roads movement. He praises progress in the United States and predicts 1916 will set records for road construction and funding.
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John N. Willys
Washington
Willys-Overland Company
Willys
United States
Ford Safety First film to showcase factory safeguards
The Ford Motor company prepares a new film titled Safety First for theaters nationwide. It demonstrates in operation the safety devices installed in Ford plants to protect 29 000 workers and reduce factory accidents across machinery with risk.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford
Stop Pinching Tubes with Flaps in Tubeless Tires
An official from Fish Rubber explains that inner flaps protect tubes from being pinched by tire beads. In modern stiff head quick detachable tires flaps are essential. insert flat with straight eyes to avoid wrinkles. If the flap tears from casing creep, replace it to prevent pinching.
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Fish Rubber Company
Paige Six Sets Much Lower Record in 300 Mile Run
Harry M. Goff, Paige district manager in San Francisco, drove a stock Paige Six 300 miles to Eureka in 24 hours flat. He started without tuning up or special prep and beat the previous best time of 28 hours 20 minutes by four hours 20 minutes.
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San Francisco
Eureka
Harry M. Goff
Paige
Goff
Golden Gate City
Humbolt County
Plans for 200 Million Auto Consolidation Revealed
The Detroit Prep Press reports a likely public announcement soon on a merger of Michigan motorcar makers involving over 200 million dollars. W C Durrant of Chevrolet Motor Co is slated to head the consolidation with involvement from General Motors Buick Cadillac Studebaker Olds and others, plus Standard Oil and Du Pont family members in New York meetings.
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Michigan
New York
Detroit
Detroit Prep
W. C. Durrant
Chevrolet Motor Company
General Motors Company
Oakland
Buick
Continental
Maxwell
Cadilac Motor Companies
Studebaker Corporation
Olds Motor Works
General Motors Truck Company
PY Morgan
Standard Oi Company
du Pont
Pedestrians Granted Right of Way in City Traffic Ordinance
A Billings Montana ordinance presented to the city council tightens traffic rules. It limits parking in the business district to 30 minutes, requires drivers to report accidents immediately, sets age limits of over 21 for passenger vehicle drivers and over 16 for other motor cars, and establishes pedestrian priority at all street crossings with crossing on sidewalk lines only.
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Billings
Montana Record-Herald
Trucks in Mexico Give Little Trouble
The Motor Age correspondent reports in Mexico during the U. S. Punitive expedition that motor trucks, especially Jeffery Quads, incur unusually low repair costs despite difficult roads with hub deep sand and mud and severe grades. Four wheel drive trucks need less maintenance by handling obstacles with all wheels, reducing jar and vibration.
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U. S
Mexico
Motor Age
Remove Mud From New Car Paint Before It Sets
The text advises promptly washing mud off freshly painted cars to prevent stains from penetrating the varnish. If mud remains overnight it will be hard to remove and may require repaint or touch up once the varnish has set.
Fire Lands and the Western Reserve Origin
After the Revolutionary War Connecticut ceded western claims to Congress and kept a tract in northern Ohio. The western reserve included Trumbull Geauga Portage and Ashland counties. It was settled largely by Connecticut emigrants and called New Connecticut. Connecticut set aside half a million acres for sufferers from the war, whose lands became known as sufferers lands and later fire lands.
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Western Reserve
Congress
Connecticut
Ohio
Trumbull
Geauga, Portage
Ashtabula
New Connecticut
Fire lands phrase in early deeds described land location
The Philadelphia Press notes that in earlier times the expression fire lands appeared in deeds to describe where land lay within a tract. This historical linguistic usage highlights how land boundaries were articulated in colonial and early American property records.
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Philadelphia Press
The Love of Money and Its Diplomacy
A London Times reflection notes money as a mediator in life’s clash of needs. It argues greed for money hides the animal struggle behind a refined veneer, likening wealth to a diplomatic tool that masks ongoing conflict.
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London Times
Name It After Ours, Woggs Joke on Baby Naming
A playful exchange from the Boston Journal features Mr. Woggs and Mrs. Woggs discussing naming their coming baby after a great personage. He quips that Bump suggested naming it after themselves.
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Ford Factory
Ford Company
Continental Motor
Atwater Kent
Timken
Saxon
Roy William Klein
Dodge Brothers
Montana Auto Supply Co
Montana
The
Dillon Tribune
Swelied
Studebaker
T. D. Moran
Dillon, Montana
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