John Dodge and the Dodge Brothers Rise to Auto Power
Detroit profile of John F Dodge who died in New York from pneumonia, tracing his Niles Michigan birth October 25, 1864, early work with Horace Dodge, Detroit machine shop ventures, the 1914 Hamtramck plant, military contracts, political activity, and a lavish Lake St. Clair palace nearing completion. The narrative notes their financial ascent, major stock transactions, and a 1919 Essex record driven on Iowa roads during a blizzard with no engine adjustments.
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Detroit
Mich
John F Dodge
New York
Niles Mich
Horace E. Dodge
John
Niles
Horace
John Dodge
Canadian Typograph Co
Windsor
Dodge Brothers
Dodge
Ile
Rochester
Lake St. Clair
Isabel
Winifred
William J. Gray, Jr
John D. Dodge
Matilda Rausch
Francis
Daniel
Margaret
From 7 Miles To 44 In 24 Years Time
C Lawrence Wells of Gem City Motor Car notes that 24 years have brought major changes to the automobile industry since 1896 when an encyclopedia stated US auto building lagged behind Europe and public trials were unsatisfactory. A Chicago trial on November 28, 1895, recorded the best speed as seven.
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C. Lawrence Wells
Gem City Motor Car Company
United States
Chicago
Handley Knight Co Auto World's Baby
Announcement of Handley Knight Company forming a new four cylinder Knight automobile manufacturer. 280000 shares of common stock issued no par value none preferred or bonds. Over subscribed in under 20 minutes with working capital over 1 million dollars. Plant on 40 acres in Kalamazoo Michigan with rail links. First unit 30 cars daily in an assembly building. Temporary Detroit offices to aid engineering and purchasing. Notable automotive industry figures named in the organization.
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Handley-Knight Company
Knight
Treasury
Kalamazoo
Mich
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Equipmnnt
Detroit
Henry Ford Picture and War Profiteer Jokes In Snippet
A humorous clipped note references Henry Ford’s new picture and mocks wartime profiteers. It jokes that cars now have brass rails enabling easy access to alcohol and quips that consumers bear the casualties of the war on profiteers, with a folded joke about Jack becoming a dough-boy.
Yeast Cake Blues and the Quinc y High Yeast Plot
A fragmentary verse tale describes a Quincy High School youth who claims to brew with yeast cakes. Neighbors’ kettles and porch thermometers vanish as a dangerous mock brew is shown to mock authorities. The piece lampoons alcohol culture and 1930s social tensions without graphic detail.
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Quincy High
Odd snippets on elections and whisky as war of words
Fragmentary remarks mix political satire with oddities about duplicate elections a cent as scent and non refillable whisky bottles. A stray line mocks Dempsey doughboy status as the Legion rails against prices and bids for a fight around the half bit.
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Legion
Dempsey
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Olds Motor Co
Ford
Ford Co
Ford Motor Co
Dodges
Edsel B. Ford
Ford-Dodge
Ford Motor Company
Hamtramck
Iowa
Cleveland
A.C. A
Pennsylvania
Automobile Club of America
Mid-West Tire and
N. 6Th ST
Hannibal
Quincy
P. E. Hess
20Th and
Hampshire Sts
Handley-Knight CO
Auto World's Baby
Nel
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Messrs
J. Edward Schipper
Automotive Industries
Chester S. Ricker
M.E
the New Mormon
Washington
Marmon
Jobs
Jake
Henry Ford
Jack
Dago Red
Virginia
George
Berger
Brother
Cain
Nordyke & Marmon Company
Bureau of Aircraft Production
Indianapolis
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