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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1917
Page
27
Central Service Station offers Ford owners expert adjustments and repairs with guaranteed factory parts. Trained technicians handle vehicles from entry, promising economical, efficient service and reassurance of quality. Ask for details about the centralized Ford service.
A brief excerpt from Everybody's Magazine shows Pauline, after three days at school, narrating classmates' mischief at home. Her mother asks if the teacher corrected her, Pauline says the teacher spoke to the whole class except her, while Papa calls it queer and suspicious.
G A C Halff notes Texas has about sixty thousand more cars than last year and predicts nationwide growth as prosperity rises. Cars shift from luxury to essential business tools, with commercial trucks and winter motoring expanding demand for tires and accessories. Quality, economy, and standardization shape future production as good roads boost tire life and market growth.
The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company now produces 30 cars daily, about 9000 yearly, doubling last year's output. The plant has expanded, dealers report scarce inventory, and New York holds 200 unfilled orders. Prices were cut by $100 early season but restored in December to match last year.
William Steinhardt of the Crockett Automobile Company states 1917 will top 1916, with demand as strong as ever. He notes prices rise due to material and labor costs, and Hudson Motor Car Company sold over 30 000 Hudson super sixes from January 1916 to January 1917, signaling a robust outlook despite potential freight car shortages.
Texas ranks seventh in motor car registrations and ninth in cars per capita. The report notes Iowa leads density with one car per 11.2 people, California 12.5 percent, and Arizona first per capita with one car for 20.04 people. San Antonio shows about one car per ten residents as licenses top 12,000.
Henry Ford aims to ship in a large batch of reformulated alcohol potatoes from Europe and distribute them free to Michigan farmers with growing instructions. The odor and taste are off putting, but one bushel yields about four and a half gallons of 160 to 180 proof alcohol, suitable for motors. European yields reach 175 to 200 bushels per acre as Ford predicts a rising role for alcohol fuel amid gasoline shortages.
The World Outlook notes tree worship in India where some villages marry marriageable women to village tree gods due to caste imbalances. The practice binds the girl to the tree, risking abandonment to wild animals or rescue by a male of lower caste. The piece also references a South Carolina medical college decision to admit women as students.
Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit will reinstate about seventy Thirty-first Michigan regiment members after they return from duty on the Mexican border. Each will receive a sum equal to two weeks' salary, with the company having already paid an extra two weeks during service, and a full month’s pay when they resume work.
Motorists can use a thirty six inch handle to operate the jack from a crouched position. The handle is pushed into the socket to raise and pulled back to lower, moving only three eighths of an inch. A spring catch secures each position until released.
A six cylinder fifty horsepower Studebaker engine loaned by Studebaker Corporation of Australasia supplied all the power for lighting Her Majesty’s Theatre Sydney during the coal crisis. The engine operated the big generator night after night, powering four thousand lights totaling two hundred thousand candle power without any hitch. The engine’s work is likened to a car running at a certain speed.
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