Vintage Ford shines in University of Illinois feature
University of Illinois senior Bill Robson shows off a restored 1911 Model T Ford on campus. The Chicago ceramic engineering student spent a summer restoring the convertible with 14 coats of lacquer and polishing brass, turning it into a showroom like display.
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First Smokers on Trains Then and Now Change
The piece recalls 1840s railway etiquette when a man was removed for smoking and an Edinburgh to Glasgow passenger won £8.68 for the odor. It notes smoking compartments shifted from exception to rule on the Great Eastern line a century ago.
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