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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
5
The Seattle Motor Car Corporation unloads a big Harroun car shipment this week, the fourth since it took over the agency. The firm boasts rapid deliveries and lists the Elgin Six among its offerings.
In May MoTOR asks readers to imagine life without automobiles. Samuel A. Miles explains the impact on farmers, real estate, cities, street railways, and railroads. He estimates traffic would require 60,000 new passenger coaches and 15,000 new locomotives at a cost over 1 billion dollars.
The first cargo since January arrived at Boston harbor, consisting of 9,000 bales of Egyptian cotton. Its long fibre suits tire production, especially cord tires, now in wide use. War effects spurred a large Chandler Arizona plantation to grow Egyptian cotton exclusively.
The Burleson Mill & Elevator Company in Burleson Texas uses the Maxwell mill service truck to deliver all flour and feed. The truck makes 50 miles daily and averages 14 miles per gallon despite 720 daily stops.
Manager W A Wallace led the Central Ford Agency employees and 47 guests to a Sunday summer picnic at Waterman near Port Orchard. The event featured a clambake and chicken dinner as the highlight of the day.
John 8 Marsden of Goodyear agents urges weekly tire inspection and minor cut filling with tire putty to prevent water ingress and tread separation. Large cuts should be vulcanised immediately to avoid premature tire failure.
A conference of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and the rubber industry war service committee agreed to limit tires to 28 sizes and styles for cars and light trucks. Current market offers about 200. The plan aims to reduce capital and material needs while prioritizing government work as the industry shifts to war production.
A list of marriages includes Frank Micheael Kyen with Genevieve Moorehouse and multiple other couples with Beattie and Mebbard, Langtey and Orion, Berlin and Hedepetn, Whiteh and Graham, Beri Rule and Florence Campbell, and more in Beattie, Seattle, The Dalles, and Carbonado. Divorces filed in superior court include Amanda Perkins vs Harlan Perkins, Della Fichilimolier vs Joseph Fichilimolier, Eugenia Johnston vs Louis Johnston, Nellie Boorman vs Werner Boorman, Grace Mosher vs Frank Mosher, Peter Nordenberg vs Maria Nordenberg, William McClellan vs Noah McClellan, and Allee McNeill vs John McNeill.
Brigham, of the Brigham Motor Car Co., departed Sunday for a ten-day or two-week business trip in Alaska. The Brigham Motor Car Co. serves as the Indiana and Bethlehem truck agent.
The piece lauds Allied women in war work behind lines and in front trenches. Miss Nancy Woods Walburn’s MoToR lead story quotes an American girl at the front describing mud, huts, scant supplies, and endurance, ending with a surprising love of hardship.
A Kansas City jury convicted Rose Pastor Stokes, a wealthy socialist, of violating the espionage act for writing to the Kansas City Star criticizing profiteers. Stokes seeks a new trial, arguing that she meant the administration when she spoke of government and that such criticism is lawful.
Joseph Lynch, 44, a Black man, menaced several Beat tle youths at 20th avenue and Yesler Way with an ax. A mob pursued him before he fled into Detective T G Montgomery’s custody. He is jailed.
Mrs Arthur M Sewall of Port Townsend reported the loss of a diamond brooch at a local hotel and later found it in a garbage can on Wednesday restoring the valued jewelry.
Feneral arrangements for Charles Jones general superintendent of Ros lyn Fuel company have not yet been completed.
A railroad company in Los Angeles uses Pierce Arrow trucks to move freight between its ranch and city to ease severe rolling stock congestion. The example shows motor truck service as flexible and economical for industries once deemed unsuitable for truck transport. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co operates seven trucks on the Akron Boston line illustrating similar flexibility.
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