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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1919
Page
8
A 1920s guidance piece urges drivers to stop and remove stones from tires. It notes solid tires pick up stones like horses’ hooves and warn that small cuts spread with each revolution, risking major fissures and tire failure. The US Tire Company endorses trimming rough edges as the proper remedy once a cut is found.
A small cut is carefully trimmed to remove jagged edges, producing a smooth, low mood in the tire. The adjustment aims to improve ride comfort and reduce vibration, with attention to maintaining tire integrity and performance.
Thomas M Beatty received from the Illinois State Highway Improvement Association a certificate praising his cooperative effort in securing voter approval of the 60 million state good roads bond issue. The award notes his long advocacy and work since aiding the 1910 campaign, including trips to Chicago with Mayor Frank Garner and leadership roles in the Cannon Ball tract association.
Tire repair men from nearly every state attend free courses in Akron at the B F Goodrich Rubber company service department. The three week class starts March 31 and covers cord and fabric tire repair with lectures and bench work. A refundable initial fee offset by material purchases, travel and living expenses only. Applications go to any Goodrich branch or Akron factory.
The article praises the 1919 Briscoe model for a near fifty percent power increase from refinements over ten months. It notes a larger bore, rotary counterbalance testing of each crankshaft, shaft balance machine use, and improvements in valve lift timing cooling spark plug position and piston and rod weighing as key power factors.
The piece praises a power plant's efficiency, noting its economy in gasoline and oil usage and its excess power, describing it as near a perfect energy source.
An item in the Quincy Press stated Geisel Brothers of Adams would handle the Pfanschmidt and Marshall interests. That report is in error. Geisel Brothers are not connected with Pfanschmidt and Marshall except for handling the Parrett tractor.
A compiled list of Irish authors and works spanning poetry plays histories and songs. Entries include Tenney Ledwidge Fisher Ervine and Redmond alongside many titles on Irish freedom home rule and national identity, with references to biographies and collections of songs and dramas.
Fifteen persons were injured in a collision between a South Shore Interurban car and an Erie Central streetcar near the Chicago outskirts close to the Illinois Indiana line. About six are badly hurt. investigation underway by local authorities.
Kansas becomes the first state to recognize airplanes as vehicles, excluding them from motor vehicle license tags for now. The law defines motor vehicles as conveyances propelled by power other than muscular and says airplanes will be licensed only when routes and landing sites demand public regulation.
New York March 16 Senator James W Wadsworth warned at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce event that if the league covenant had been in effect in 1898 our rescue of Cuba could have drawn attacks from all nations. He supported a revised covenant but said it must bind all, not be treated as a scrap of papers. In Prussia March 14 German delegates at a conference accepted terms for allied seizure of the mercantile fleet and provisioning.
Washington reports railroad administration action against train robberies shown in ten months ending Feb 1 with 14 114 car theft arrests by railroad secret service. Of these 5 475 were railroad employees. Convictions reached 9 891 and 838 000 of 1 200 000 stolen property recovered.
Amsterdam reports the Dutch government has not yet begun talks with other small nations on a league of nations. The interior minister says the government will wait and only form a separate grouping if there is extreme necessity.
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