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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1910
Page
9
Advertisement promoting commercial wagons with 600 to 3000 pound capacity. Claims savings by using commercial wagons for multiple teams and notes combination cars for both pleasure and business in light delivery roles.
The article notes strict controls at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with guarding soldiers and reporters present. Expert drivers stayed alert as motors ran throughout the program. Only Herbert Lytle suffered a serious injury when his car overturned, while measures limited crowd handling and ensured safety across the trackside enclosure.
A city motor club endurance rally to Indianapolis drew 35 entries. Fourteen year old Paul Cox briefly left a Seventh Street show house window to join the tour with his father’s Overland, earning a flawless score and a rare early triumph amid springtime distractions for youths and spectators.
Governor M E Hay of Washington led a 128 mile auto tour from North Yakima along the Columbia River into the dry region north of Pasco and south of Wenatchee. The expedition aimed to inspect a water power project and the party completed the journey in about fifteen hours, calling the sandy area not barren after all.
The Glidden tour opening from Cincinnati on June 15 will include a unique military aspect. Two Cadillac cars mounted with rapid fire guns, authorized by state governors, will form a balloon-destroying battery manned by Northwestern Military Academy cadets. Major Davidson plans to test automotive military use and report feasibility to the War Department.
Fragmentary text mentions a figure labeled Wise Ih War seeking to seize armament within estates and obtain sanction from Mr Myers factory manager and governors, with Tecatur car in Chicago this week.
Fragmentary note states Mr EB will appoint an agent in Boston. The text is incomplete but implies a formal action or appointment connected to Boston. entities: Mr EB, Boston. No dates or further details available.
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