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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1920
Page
3
Mitchell Motora company unveils touring car and roadster with a carriage inspired yet streamlined body design. The sloped radiator and lifted lines evoke yacht imagery, signaling a shift from traditional carriage-based automotives and aiming to set a modern aerodynamic standard.
H W Perry of the Traiter Manufacturer's Association estimates overuses in road haulage by motor trucks cost the United States more than a million dollars yearly. Using 600,000 trucks at two ton capacity and 50 miles daily, he finds potential 60,000,000 ton miles per day but trucks run empty on return trips half the time. Actual work is about 30,000,000 ton miles daily, and with 265 service days per year the total reaches 7,950,000,000 ton miles.
Central Illinois highways dried rapidly but remain rough with numerous mud holes. Oiled roads fair. weather fair and improvement expected. Bloomington near McLean low places nearly impassable water over roads near Pontiac and between Pontiac and Dwight. Tremont hazardous travel with many cars stuck. Danville east and west of Monticello and east of St Joseph bad. Jacksonville good. St Louis route bad north and south of Medora and south of Oldenburg. Quincy route mudholes near Clayton.
New York April 17 The Richmond County Medical Society including Staten Island doctors at a Wednesday meeting set higher charges for home visits raising rates to 4 dollars for daytime 9 4 to 6 p m and evening calls 6 p m to 10 p m 4 dollars and late night 10 p m to 9 a m 3 dollars office calls increase from 1 to 2 dollars amid higher gasoline and living costs.
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