Dixie Highway Man Ends Southern Tour in Detroit
W. B. Gilbreath, Dixie Highway Association field secretary, logged over 5600 miles in a Maxwell touring car on a southern preaching tour. He praised the car’s ruggedness on rough roads, noted fuel economy to twenty eight miles per gallon, and cited an eight hour 200.2 mile run from Tallahassee to Macon with no tire changes. He arrived in Detroit and visited Maxwell offices to commend the vehicle’s performance despite severe testing and winter weather.
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Maxwell
Gilbreath
Dixie Highway Association
Detroit
Dixie Highway
Maxwell Company
Tallahassee
Fla
Macon
Mr. Gilbreath
Michigan Air
Gold's astonishing properties and wartime value
A wartime piece notes gold can be beaten into 125 000 thin sheets to reach an inch, become transparent when thinned, and draw into the finest wire. Citing Faraday, it claims four sovereigns could yield a wire long enough to encircle the earth, and explains why real gold tips cigarettes despite costs.
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Pearsons
Michael Faraday
New
What You Should Take With You on That Tour
Before starting out on an extended trip, thoroughly check the car and tighten all fasteners. The outfit lists emergency gear: spare casing, inner tubes, patches, plugs, tire tools, pump, jacks, soapstone, plastic for casing, caps, hooks, rope, water tank, medical kit, raincoat, chains, extra spark plugs, and sun protection gear.
Banker Now Laborer Near Winslow Ill After Bank Failure
J Brad oe Fuller once ran Fuller & Son private bank at Winslow. He and his sisters now own a cement block firm and he earns $2 a day for ten hours with docked time for idle hours. The bank’s liabilities total 168647 while assets are 120935, leaving depositors about seventy cents on the dollar. The family aids the fund while Fuller seeks steadier, better paid work.
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Winslow, Ill
J. Bradoe Fuller
Fuller & Son
Winslow
Fuller
Compmn Fund
D. F. Graham
First National Bank of Freeport
Winslow Bank
Invincible Furniture Company
Manitowoc
Wis
Hot Weather Claimed To Harm Auto Tires
Goodyear official warns against under inflating tires in heat. Tests show air expands little. under inflation raises blowout risk. motorists urged to inflate to recommended pressure, then recheck with a gauge after short drives to verify safety and cost per mile.
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C. F. Droger
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Goodyear
Australian painter sketches hut near Daylesford
Flores Shfe, an Australian landscape painter, set up near Daylesford to sketch an old two-room wattile hut draped with a crimson creeper. A tall, hairy man emerged from the hut and challenged him, asking if the artist was “doing this at your own expense” as the hut dweller and his wife moved nearer with wary questions.
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Patterson
Pittsburg
Dealers urged to devote time to driver education
W. E. Stalnaker of Pathfinder Company warns most auto accidents stem from driver inexperience and urges dealers to educate new buyers. He cites green drivers as a risk, praises courses by distributors, and touts Pathfinder Twin Six with high gear capability and 100 horsepower as reducing need for gear changes and improving safety.
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W. E. Stalnaker
Pathfinder Company
England Opposed 10 Fortifying Panama
Washington dispatch reports an Anglo German plan to press the United States to leave the Panama Canal unfortified. Britain briefly proposed. Germany sought specifics, then signaled limited willingness to join but not at England’s full extent. War altered priorities, then Austro-Serbian crisis drew focus elsewhere. Mourning De Laure notes fashion shifts with stockings as a fashionable detail.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Great Britain
Germany
England
United States
Farone
Germans scarce interviewable near London front
A British front correspondent recalls attempts to interview German prisoners moved to the coast. Guards and heavy security hampered access as Tommies stood by while exhausted captives, some officers, faced harsh conditions, including Verdun fatigue and lengthy underground confinement. One prisoner broke down sobbing when questioned about life in captivity.
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British Front
Verdun
London
England
Mr Slevins Good Day at the Auction Sale
A railway company employee, after returning a woman's umbrella, buys a bundle of twenty umbrellas at an auction for 2.60 dollars. On the way home he sits opposite the same woman who teased him are you having a good day. The incident is recounted in the New York Railways Employes' Magazine with light humor and a social miscue.
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New York Railways
P. A. Slevin
Work Is the Secret, Dr. Conwell Speech Motto
Philadelphia minister Dr. Russell H. Conwell said the secret of success is work. He stated laziness is the main weakness to avoid, noting laziness travels slowly and poverty and failure overtake it, as quoted by the Washington Star.
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Russell H. Conwell
Washington Star
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Buick Automobile Company
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Pathfinder
Panama
U. S
de Laure
Arnold Daly
F.o.b
Toledo
Third Street
Avenue C
The
Willys-Overland Company
Toledo, Ohio
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