Dealer Meeting Prank Leads to Cadillac Demonstration
Police escorted twenty Peoria car dealers from a Travis Cadillac session to the Jefferson hotel for a staged "demonstration" by Chief Rhoades. The gag, designed to reveal a car’s performance, ended in laughter as the officers released the group, who then planned future meetings and Chicago auto show attendance with several Peoria participants among the attendees.
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Peoria Transcript
Department of Police
Travis-Cadillac
Main
Orange Streets
Schofield
Rollen Travis
Rhoades
Sergeant Schofield
Jefferson Hotel
Travis
Peoria Department of
Chicago
Glen Brubaker
Litchfield
Harvey Storts
Peoria
Roy Coggin
Decatur
C. R. Constant
Springfield
H. G. Groves
W. Davis
Taylorville
J. S Miller
Mattoon
Leonard Travis
la Salle
Harry Snell
Princeton
J. R. Oakes
W. G. Schnell
Farmer City
James Hedrick
Morris Adler
Quincy
W. S. James
Macomb
Leo Pickrel
Galesburg
Guy Coleman
Canton
Thomas Waugh
W. A. Wood
C. A. Roadstrum
Regional Auto Exhibitions Schedule Across Major Cities
A listing of upcoming automotive shows runs through February in cities including Los Angeles Spokane Shreveport Milwaukee Chicago New York Fargo Cleveland Rochester Albany Louisville Newark Minneapolis Des Moines St Louis Kansas City and Detroit. The notices note dates, venues and local dealer associations as organizers with emphasis on engine fuel passage and pipeline reach.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Motor Cars Dealers Association
Spokane
Wash
Spokane Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Shreveport
Louis
Shreveport Automobile Dealers Association
Milwaukee
Wis
Automobile Deaers of
Chicago
Chicago Auto Trade Association
New York
Automobile Dealers Association
Fargo
N. D
New Jersey Auto Exhibition Co
Minneapolis
Northwestern Automobile Association
Tes Moines
Des Moines Automobile Dealers Association
St. Louis
St. Louis Automobile Manufacturers and Dealers Association
Kansas City
Kansas City Motor Car Dealers Association
Detroit
Detroit Automoile Dealers Association
Overland Car Dealer D L Yantis Predicts Banner Year
D L Yantis, Overland distributor for northwestern Illinois and northeastern Missouri, reports rapid dealer growth from 56 last year to 100 so far this year. He cites 1 050 cars contracted through March and daily new dealer signings. Henry Geise warns buyers to order early as Buick supplies tighten. he cut orders from 100 to 26 cars this year and expects Oak land three cars next week.
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D. L. Yantis
Overland
Illinois
Missouri
Overland Company
Henry Geise
Geise
Buick
Oakland
Morris Adler Offers Garage for Mail Plane Station
Morris Adler received a courteous reply from Otto Praeger second assistant postmaster general in response to his offer of the Morris Adler Moller garage as a landing place for government mail planes. Praeger notes Quincy is not on the Chicago New York air mail route and planes on that route are unlikely to land near Quincy.
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Morris Adler
Otto Praeger
Morris-Adler-Moller
Prager
Quincy
Foch Holds Germany To Armistice Terms
BASEL January 10 The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reports Marshal Foch notified the German armistice commission that the Entente powers rejected a prolongation of the armistice ending January 7. He said he would meet the German plenipotentiaries on January 15 at Treves.
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Basel
Duetsche Allgemeinne Zeitung
Marshal Foch
Trawler Brings Food to Starving Kola Villages
Archangel reports a trawler loaded with American food, led by Captain D Lively of San Francisco, delivered relief to about six thousand residents along the Kola peninsula. The voyage lasted ten days through the White Sea, with villagers in Umba Kuzoman Tetrani Tchapaha and Ponoi sharing scarce sugar and other provisions while noting a communal lifestyle and absence of Bolshevism. The ice is already filling the rivers.
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Archangel
White Sea
Kola Peninsula
D. Lively
San Francisco
American Red Cross
Lively
Umba
Kuzoman
Tetrani
Tchapaha
Ponoi
Saviours of Russia hailed after Arctic relief mission
An Arctic relief voyage reports famine and influenza sweeping coastal towns. Food was enough for winter, but ships had not reached Tetrani for two years. At Pond thirty of three hundred died in a week, many with scurvy, as medicine was unavailable and locals hoped America would save Russia.
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Tetrani
Pond
Russia
America
How to Care for Lady Toilers Is British Problem
London notes the Ministry of Labor plans to demobilize about 1,000,000 women war workers. Many face returning to low paying domestic work from munitions jobs, with long hours and reduced freedom. A 13 week $4.75 weekly bridge is offered. 11 labor districts and district councils will coordinate with labor agencies to ease transitions amid postwar unemployment.
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London
Ministry of Labor
Labor Ministry
Associated Press
Wages and Cost of Living Tangle Prompt Action
A speaker urged reducing the prices of necessities to ease hardship from rising wages and the high cost of living. He argued lower essential costs would relieve the financial strain on households.
Arch W. McFarlane to Speak for Towns 38th Session
Waterloo figure Arch W. McFarlane will serve as speaker of the house for Des Moines Iowa town's 38th legislative session beginning Monday. He is noted for prior service and leadership in regional politics.
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Mfarlane Igwa
Des Moines
Arch W. McFarlane
Waterloo
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Morris Adler-Moller Co
Service
Foch
Germany
Northern Sea
Gasolene
Richardson Lubricating Co
Toilers
Chevrolet
F. O. B. Quincy
Clough-Reihm
Barry
Toledo
Overland Automobile Co. Dist
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