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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1920
Page
3
An article urges drivers to help fellow motorists stranded with car trouble especially when far from a garage. It notes a puncture incident where a bystander lent a key to unlock a tire lock, highlighting the need for courteous, practical aid and a chivalrous attitude among experienced drivers, including guidance for assisting women drivers with basic repairs.
A guide discusses hard starting from an overly rich fuel mixture and advises pausing starts to let gasoline evaporate. It also warns tow procedures, recommending hitching to the frame rather than bent axles, and mentions body rattles from loose mounting bolts on the frame.
A historical description explains a tire design where a spring ring is placed inside a rubber tube to provide puncture resistance and resilience. It details metallic scales along the tube, a solid outer rubber band, and a split tubing arrangement forming a complete armored tire without a inner tube.
The passage explains that by using split armored tire sections that glide over one another, low pneumatic pressure can be used due to the spring ring’s supporting power. Parts are screwed to prevent air escape, creating an airtight juncture where upper split-tube portions are squeezed between metal parts. Attachment to the wheel follows standard clincher methods.
A collage of tips and observations on cars and driving including public motor services in Shanghai, garage work by American Indians, church garages in Concord, parking on hills, using cinders as a home floor, tire spares, and tractors in Georgia. It notes New York police using Bertillon for car ID and remarks that women drive 80 percent of car sales.
Dorothy Noble four years old died after Robert Scanlon a playmate lit a match to her dress following a refused candy request. Neighbors rushed to help. parents reside at 42% North Lawndale. Coroner and juvenile authorities take over as Bobby's father Sam Scanlon struggles to cope.
Baltimore news recalls a 70 year old bride, Ida KE Young, who marries Mr Hussell after her first love George Bell vanished four months earlier. She praises her new husband’s honesty and cooking, while he values a dependable wife. The wedding breakfast featured rolls and coffee. In a second item, two pedigreed bulls fight on a ranch near Tillamook, one killed. another report from Clarksburg notes a 91 year old woman’s jaw dislocation during a yawn, requiring medical aid.
A large brick snake escaped from a show in a local Greensburg barber shop. It was identified just in time to save its life after a close shave escape.
Washington report notes calls for postal savings reform amid charges of profiteering through redepositing funds. Herbert Hoover urges distributing profits to depositors and stopping government competition with private banks while maintaining overall national savings. Armament budgets and League of Nations concerns add to a backdrop of broader fiscal and foreign policy debates.
George Washington used the English coats of arms on his seat and bookplate, a family lineage long kept. Quakers of early settlers might view surrendering inherited heraldry as renouncing a family right, as they also Aboriginally shed plumes and lace from attire.
The piece notes that punishment in Porto Rico extended beyond Africans as Spain used convicts for public works. When those tasks ended, convicts were released to fend for themselves, many retreating to the mountains where a substantial “poor white” population persists. The current generation is not more criminal, just driven by hunger and overcrowding, with petty thieving common.
In New York City a grand victory parade drew seventy five thousand veterans led by a flying column of automobiles carrying wounded soldiers. Uniformed platoons marched down Fifth Avenue amid cheers as American Legion members and delegations from Connecticut and New Jersey joined. A Mohawk Indian band in tribal dress marched with veterans, and a large gun mounted on a decorated track fired clocklike signals.
Lemuel Bolles of Seattle reappointed national adjutant of the American Legion. A Casper Wyoming Legion stampede exhibition thrilled crowds, with broncho busting shows and a luncheon by the Women’s Auxiliary. Proceeds funded a new home for Stanley Dangler Post Crestona Massachusetts.
The American Legion aided Wiley H L Turnant of Theodore Peterson Bost of Minneapolis and his fiancée in Waukon Iowa as they sought a marriage license. The court clerk required proper identification before the license would be issued, and the couple proceeded to comply.
Arthur W. Kipting of the American Legion addressed the Union Nationale des Combattants convention at the Trocadero. He urged French veterans toward mutual understanding and the recovery of the race, stressing fraternity among former combatants alongside Allied nations. Andre Lefevere presided. messages from Britain, Belgium, and Holland were read.
A fragment notes someone offering to accompany a clerk of court to verify proceedings and identify witnesses at a ceremony, mentioning ancestral ties and intent to act as a witness.
The Janes O Brien post of the American Legion opened its new Shelby home with elaborate ceremonies. The clubhouse, estimated at 1200 dollars, was presented to the post after town approval and was named the G A R by the post.
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