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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1916
Page
12
Armor reports August business ahead of last year and September showing strong gains with rising auto sales in the South. He notes tire factories work around the clock and local stores have low stocks, signaling a robust fall trade.
Business reports strong demand in the auto tire sector and persistent supply shortages.
The Kiyo Maru sailed from Yokohama with 931 steerage passengers bound for South America. Forty five Japanese girls, chosen by a marriage agency from 200 applicants after exams of physique and education, will marry farmers there. Brazil attracts Japanese settlers seeking land cultivation and prosperity.
The Southwest Oakland Company led by J. T. Simmons moves to a larger 50 by 150 foot fireproof building at West Commerce and St. Marys, with offices on Commerce and a Market street rear for parts. Wilson & Felder join as city dealers and a new South Laredo service station opens October 1 to support Oaklands.
John Aitken driving a Peugeot powered by Goodyear Cord tires won the 300 mile Labor Day race at Sharonville speedway Cincinnati with a time of 3 hours 5 minutes 27 seconds averaging 97.06 mph. Eight finishers from twenty eight starters. no tire trouble apart from two tire stops.
John Clem Jr. reports Studebaker led seven passenger car output in fourteen months with 70 000 built and shipped. Output across models rose with strong dealer expansion from 2000 to 6500 and plans for 100 000 annual production and new plant space in Detroit to meet demand.
W. R. Adama of Atlas Tire Company visited the San Antonio branch and announced immediate plans to open three more branches in New Orleans Atlanta and Jacksonville. He praised the San Antonio unit as a leading automobile center and noted growing business across established branches.
Automobile men report increasing business, a trend that favors buyers with minor blemishes lowering prices. The slight flaw reclassifies goods as seconds but preserves value, boosting tire dealer profits in a rising market.
William Steinhardt of the Crockett Automobile Company recounts an incident on the world’s highest highway where Hudson cars traveled at dawn. A car encountered two elk on the road blocked by headlights and narrowly avoided a collision as the animals moved aside.
Dr. Silvio Portello told the Engineers Association he has invented a device to refloat vessels even when deeply sunk. He plans to form a company to commercialize the invention and will first attempt to raise the steamships Orion and Principe Asturias sunk off the Brazilian coast.
The Muellers of South Bend Indiana bought a new Jeffery car and drove twelve hours to a Wisconsin town, illustrating the vast changes in travel over fifty years. Fifty years earlier Mr Mueller’s parents made the same trip by prairie schooner, taking two weeks.
Goodyear official C F Dwyer notes that over 50 000 cars this season use wire wheels and predicts by 1917 to reach about 200 000 new wire wheel equipped cars. detachable Goodyear rim widely adopted by makers.
Dublin reports sentiment runs high against a British bill to sync Irish time with Greenwich time. Ireland now lies 25 minutes behind England and many see this as a token of nationhood. Merchants favor uniform time, while overall opposition remains cautious as clocks revert under daylight saving rules.
South Bend Indiana commercial traveler B W Zimmer sat on a street car when a man seated next to him greeted him and left abruptly. Zimmer later found his pocketbook containing 30 dollars missing and is searching for the supposed friendly passerby. The piece ends with a note on global coffee consumption.
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