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ISAIIrdAlltDenison Auto Company Drive a Flock of Fords From Kansas City to DenisonShortage of freight care does not Interfere with the Denison Auto Co. ! securing machines and this loot was i0n demonstrated last week when II. G. I Saggau. the proprietor, went to Kansas City with a party of drivers and. IN returned overland with a consignment ! of fourteen Ford cars. Automobile ^ dealers have been handicapped for the past two years on account of short- j J age of freight cars in which to ship machines Irom the factory. This has jK»i caused them to lose many sales. Last He week. Mr. Saggau learned that lie *Ja|primdrarenareyofTS‘atdomlne»n.Oilcoin-ho rl-ol-■is lallt; on Id secure fourteen Ford rars from the assembling plant In Kansas City, hut that it would bo necessary for him to drive cross country as there were no available freight cars in Kansas City in which to ship them to Denison. He at once got busy and it was not long before seventeen of his friends volunteered to help drive the* cars buck.The party left on Monday evening of last week for Kansas City and on Tuesday evening started on the trip back to Denison with the fourteen At 1:30 o'clock that night they reached St. Joe. .Mo., where they put up for the nigiit. after having travelled about sixty miles. An early start was made from St. Joe Wednesday Morning and made Walnut that evening. Cnable to secure hotel accomodations ut Walnut the drivers slept in the cars that night and arrived home Thursday about noon All of the cars had been sold before 'hey were brought to Denison and the purchasers were on hand Thursday to i tic secure their machines. ! theMr. Saggau is one of the most pro- | gressive Ford agents in western Iowa and he finds no difficulty in selling all of this make that he can secure from the factory.Uelow we print the names of those who made the trip from Kansas City to Denison. Henry IV Saggau. Hugo Jensen. Paul Malone. Edward Geh-ring. John Stender. Ido Perconi. Ray Kobinault. Walter Loclmiiller. Herbert Cusman. Mike McCord. Ed. Watke.Carl Berndt. Bert Thomalson. Ru-I dolph Stender. Wm. Reimers. Harry j Saggau. Martin Saggau.The boys looked lllte a bunch of trench fighters when they arrived in Denison, being covered with dust and grease, but all report the time of their lives without a mishap of' any kind.; They received a royal reception in — j many of the towns through which 1 they passed.heesbePdbellstiste-toliero-it.in-beiu-at;nstheisHeme Bel nut ass fun n in par cei ref for fra of in1Hethesinnsccei1WQforKitdir-MbBrtamproEu;rouWoGrfgiuGet.lohtinasAftbooNeforwabluhermocalFrapreClOJa f ing
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Denison Review
Denison, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 01, 1917
Page 10
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