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CAR RUNS AWAYJim Bacon Has Exciting ExperienceWith His Ford Auto-mobile.HE IS RUN DOWNBY HIS OWN CAR.Cranked Machine Without Having Brakes on Tight—He is*Bruised Up.. «Jim Bacon, crack salesman, heftyElk, soldier, scholar, gentleman ana* , ■ »son of Lafe Bacon, had an exciting• • m| experience with his Ford peace car.«If Jim had not been so athletic and■» .strong he mighthave suffered painful injuries, as it was, he was able to getoff with only a few slight bruises to■ ♦ • *himself, some soiled clothes and a• ... • ”soiled temper. It seems that Jim, who is an expert'in not knowing anjrthingA ‘about an automobile, thought that the- *spark plugs were being bitten'by the*carbureter, or that the steering gear was full of carbon, and he decided to• 1 A “■ * §adjust the .whole trouble. So he steps■ - ■ •out in his best Hart, Schaffner Marx suit: and proceeds to make Chris. Wagner, look for ~a new- job by doingall this work himself. The first thing1 • . — ' . ’ ■' * ‘he did was to crank the machine with-out tightening the brake. --The restis a sad story. That car gave one# rjump like a bucking broncho, knocked,. '* » - *. -y— B •Jim over and went on its merry way,* * m **m V.knocking over another post and going through a barbed wire fence. It just kept going and Jim could .see that gasoline disappearing like snow before.a hot sun. The car finally stopped (Continued on Page 4.)
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Jefferson City Democrat Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 20, 1916
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