Car Buyers Urge Normal Spending for War Prosperity
William H. Rankin of Rankin Company Chicago urges Americans to buy cars and other goods, arguing fifty billion dollars will be spent by government and that withholding purchases harms economy. He warns hoarding buys lead to layoffs and depression, and encourages immediate buying to support victory and national smooth running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Rankin
William H. Rankin Company
Chicago
Arthur Brisbane
Sam
Cuticura Heals Intense Itching: Patient Testimonial
A Philadelphia reader reports severe body itching and copper colored spots itching to scratch at night. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the spots healed within days following a single box of Ointment and two cakes of Soap. Free samples offered by post card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howeine
S. Chadwick St
Philadelphia
Canadian counts Maxwell popularity in Detroit
Fred Chadwick and his son counted cars at Woodward avenue and State street to determine car popularity for investment. The method showed Maxwell as the top car in Detroit within its price class, more favored than pricier rivals, leading Chadwick to become Maxwell distributor for Hamilton and surrounding area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Chadwick
Danny Canadian
Hamilton
Ont
Detroit
F. J. Chadwick
Woodward Avenue
State Street
Chadwicks
Maxwell
Chadwick
Maxwell Company
Fisk Company Employes Buy Liberty Bonds
Fisk Rubber Company of Chicopee Falls offers an employee bond purchase plan for Liberty Loans. Salaried staff and weekly payroll workers can pay over nearly a year with refund options if ill or changed employment occurs. About 85,000 in bonds have been subscribed by nearly 500 employees to support the national effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisk Rubber Company
Chicopee Falls
Fish Rubber Company
Fish Company
New England
Harroun Car Promises Sensation in Motoring Circles
EK W Shank Harroun distributor returns from Detroit with praise for the Harroun car its light four cylinder design easy riding from three to twenty five miles per hour and smooth passage over rough crossings. He notes new equipment a rear gasoline tank vacuum feed and near full production at Wayne plants with 10 000 Detroiters as stockholders predicting Harroun Motors will soon be a major industry giant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harroun
EK. W. Shank
Detroit
Wayne
John J. Wrath
Mr. Shank
Ray Harroun
Harroun Motors Corporation
Gravel Pit Sells Many Duplex Trucks
H M Lee of the Duplex Truck Company lauds a western gravel pit as a powerful sales tool. He demonstrates the truck pulling power in soft ground, showing how the differential directs force to the footing wheel to haul a heavy load out of the pit. A dealer credits the pit with convincing sales force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Lee
Duplex Truck Company of
Lansing
Lee
Mr. Lee
Danville Man On Trial For Murder Of Man And Wife
Robert B. Pursel former Danville borough clerk is on trial in Montour county court for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Kern on Halloween night. Insanity defense planned after pursuit to have an insanity commission appointed was denied. Pursel allegedly waited along the street and fired on the trio, killing Mr. Kern and Mrs. Kern and wounding his wife. a final shot missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Robert B. Pursel
Montour County Court
John E. Kern
Hallowe'en
Pursel
Kerns
Kern
Juvenile Offenses Rise in Wartime England
London reports parliament remarks that juvenile offenses climbed about thirty four percent across seventeen big cities. Lord Sandwich cites home life disruption, lack of playgrounds, street folly, and entertainment venues as key causes and urges broader Boy Scouts participation to reach street youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Engeland
Lord Sandwich
Boy Scouts
Educators Tackled Over Student Capacity And Health
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon criticizes modern education for forcing all children beyond their abilities and neglecting physical and mental well being. He urges varied curricula and earlier occupational pathways, arguing many students struggle or fail due to unsuitable schooling, with a call for parental involvement and health-minded reforms in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel G. Dixon
France Faces Serious Food Shortage The Butter Price Soars
Paris reports a severe food crisis as measures fail to secure wheat supply for the next crop. France bans pastry and crackers, raises bran content in flour, and considers cornmeal mixes. Butter retail rises to a dollar per pound amid limited stocks and wartime demand. Maurice Violette reopens butter imports, lifting previous price caps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Associated Press
Maurice Violette
Italian Front Railways and Albania Roads Report
The War Department reports 240 miles of narrow gauge rail completed on the Italian front. Albanian troops have laid 60 miles of narrow gauge lines marking the country’s first railway system and built 180 miles of macadam roads through mountains and swamps, among the first sturdy roads there since Roman times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
War Department
Albania
Excess tax on trucks unjust
Alvan Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co submits to Senator Simmons that trucking is a core commercial industry and military asset not a luxury. He argues trucks enable wartime logistics, compare government subsidies abroad, note growing demand, and warn against a 5 percent tax that would burden an essential transport fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvan Macauley
Packard Motor Car Company
F. M. Simmons
Senate Committee On Finance
Macauley
Senator Simmons
Germany
France
England
Trucks as vital wartime transport urged to support industry
A wartime editorial urges fostering the truck industry as essential for moving troops, guns, ammunition, and supplies. It argues trucks reduce living costs by trimming middlemen, would aid government requisition in crises, and calls trucks the most utilitarian American article aside from essentials.
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Verdun
America
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Wm. H. Rankin
Atlantic City, N. J
Atlantic City
Atlantic
Wildwood
N. J
Awildwood Crest
Florida
Wild
Fenwick
L. H. Boyer
Sheldo Wildwood
J. Woods
Edgeton Inn
Federal Machine Shop Court
Harrisburg
Fisk Company
Lloyd George
East End
George
Pool Champ
ARMY
Melbourne Inman
DR. Oxley
S. Sixteenth St
Emerick’s Sanitary
NEW Harroun
Public Health Service
Mother's Magazine
Dixon
Packard Co
Bis
Salu-Co
Davenport’s
Market Street
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