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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1911
Page
22
A newborn boy, naked and covered in ashes, was discovered in a Portland alley when an ashman dumped a can into his cart. Police Captain Hodgins found the infant, rushed him to the station, where a matron cleaned him and wrapped him in cotton. Doctors say he will live.
Four San Antonio residents drove 3340 miles in July from San Antonio to Denver and back in a Packard 30 touring car with only one puncture. They camped along the route, visited Colorado Springs and Denver, met cowboys near Heresy Oklahoma, and returned July 29 glad to be home.
The article notes widespread adoption of automatic starting devices by about fifteen car makers for 1912. It describes pneumatic self starters, air storage in tanks, and dash buttons to power engines while discussing locking devices to thwart theft, air brakes, ventilator ideas, four speed transmissions, and frame material shifts to pressed steel.
The party resumed its way and the whole affair proved as much of a novelty to the cowboys as it did for the San Antonians.
A city automobile inspector outlines a speed signaling and automatic deceleration system for high powered English cars. The device uses air pressure to monitor speed and emit a whistle when the legal limit is exceeded. The description notes a two-cylinder arrangement with a whistle vent and spring driven piston connected to the car’s mechanism. The Washington Herald quotes dialogue about a summer engagement.
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