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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
3
A historical piece extols the automobile as essential for modern life and civilization. It credits reliability, economic impact, and broad social effects, noting farmers reliance, business efficiency, and improved roads, while warning against treating cars as mere toys. It lauds pioneers and predicts growing demand and safety of the industry.
Walter P Evans of Des Moines Iowa introduces an automatic automobile jack that lifts wheels off the floor using power from the car. The system uses two sets of inclined independent jacks engaging the axles and a car powered crank to swing front legs to raise the vehicle. A rope and pulley arrangement lets the operator release the car from rear without approaching the jack. Also advises inspecting front wheel bearing cones and shifting them when worn to save power.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the report notes motor trucks are increasingly used to haul hogs to market. From October to February the share of wagon and truck hogs at Peoria stockyards nearly doubled from two years earlier. In five winter months 50350 hogs arrived by wagon or truck, 19 percent of receipts, up from 16 and 10 percent in prior years. similar trends appear at Cincinnati markets with 158,977 hogs moved by truck and wagon in 1914 versus 17282 in 1917.
A brief note advises a small square of canvas about eighteen inches square kept in the roadside toolbox. It helps when working under a car, protecting trousers from knee wear, and avoids iron pressing fender dents. Use a wooden block to tap without causing extra damage.
A gentleman bandit and partner enter a saloon in a misfit comedy raid. They force patrons into a mock dance, threaten with a revolver, rattle the till, and depart as the saloonkeeper laments the audacious caper before police are called.
Min Foree, Jonathan J. West, eighty two, sues wife over eight years of marriage claiming he cooked breakfast each day and washed three times daily while she did no housework. The text notes she left him in good spirits after an incident involving wine and a patched head, with police remarks included.
A patriotic portrait traces Lafayette's 1777 voyage to America, his bond with Washington, and his pivotal role in Yorktown. It recalls France’s costly aid, the lasting debt owed to Lafayette’s vision of liberty, and the enduring French-American friendship celebrating Lafayette’s legacy.
The article notes American portable map printing presses produced for war use, enabling corps map departments to quickly print two by two feet maps within 12 hours to support frontline operations. Therapists aided maps, and designs were copied from larger-scale originals carried by each corps printing unit.
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