Pacific Northwest tourism to set record in 1922 says official
Herbert Cuthbert secretary of the Pacific Northwest Tourist Association after a Vancouver trip predicts the 1922 tourist season will be the greatest in the region's history. He bases the forecast on facts observed about next year's business potential and travel trends.
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Pacific Northwest
Herbert Cuthbert
Pacific Northwest Tourist Association
Vancouver
B. C
Cuthbert
Pacific Coast Conventions Boost Rail Travel and Tourism
Mr. Cuthbert notes a likely rise in rail travel due to three to four large national conventions on the Pacific coast and railway industry plans to develop tourist travel. He cites potential changes in rates, equipment, advertising, and agency cooperation, with autos also increasing. He mentions winter recruitment of travelers from Eastern Canada, where 5,000 to 6,000 people spent winters in the Northwest last year.
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Pacific Coast
Cuthbert
Canada
Pacific Northwest
Fir Northwest
Auto makes the country grow
George W. Davis of Davis Motor Car Company argues autos boost farming towns. He notes Iowa leads in farm product value and car ownership among farmers, with multiple cars common. He cites time savings, market access, supplies, and social benefits as drivers of prosperity.
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George W. Davis
Davis Motor Car Company
Towa
Old Timer Club Gears Up Fall Membership Drive
An old timer organization launches a fall membership push aimed at boosting enlistment before the national auto shows in New York and Chicago. Members are urged to wear new buttons, with obsolete pre January designs retired. headquarters set at Hotel Commodore in New York and Congress Hotel in Chicago, guiding new joins and banquet bookings.
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Old Timer's Club
New York
Chicago
Old Timer’s Club
Commodore
Congress Hotel
Champion
Maxwell
Local Invention Going Big Its Own Windshield Swipe
The Polk Hueber Co of Spokane and Pacific highway showcases an automatic windshield swipe for full front visibility. Seattle inventor Henry H devised a two part, dash controlled device connected to the intake manifold. Ten units already operate on Seattle municipal railway coaches and other vehicles.
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Spokanest
Pacific Highway
Polk-Hueber Co, Inc
Seattle
Henry H
Seattle Municipal Railway
Auto travel from Maine to Seattle by pioneer style
An account describes C. B. Dommons of Bremerton driving a Reo speed wagon from Rockland Maine to Seattle July 11 after leaving June 9. He covered the car with brown canvas, used cot beds and a Sterno stove, stayed in camps and farmer yards, and avoided hotels except during rain. The journey measured 2756 miles from Portland to Seattle, with two tire punctures and minimal mechanical work beyond spark plug maintenance.
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Rockland
Maine
Seattle
C. BE. Dommons
Bremerton
Ike
U. S
Syracuse
N. Y
Portland
Coleman Dock
Haynes Movie Man Stanley Haynes Reported Missing
Stanley Haynes, a motion picture producer employed by Haynes Motor Co., is missing during a national tour to promote the company. The firm has begun a search and appealed to the public and press to help locate the missing contract film producer.
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Fuld
Stanley
Haynes Motor Co
Haynes Co
Furnish Pictures
Briscoe Motors Inc Changes Name to Earl Motors Inc
The Briscoe Motor Corporation changes its name to Earl Motors Inc effective immediately. Company heads say only the name changes and personnel relations remain unchanged. The switch aims to promote events as a good time and reunion for the club. DO NOT attempt unsafe train crossings.
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Earl Motors, Inc
Briscoe Autos
Briscoe Motor Corporation
Fart Motors, Inc
Largest turbine generator shipped from East Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing delivers a record turbine generator by a 95 ton special car. The unit weighs 201000 pounds and stands 16 feet 6 inches high and eight feet 4 inches wide requiring a special route. It moves from East Pittsburgh to New York in seven days despite tunnel and crane-access limits.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
New York
Local man lands King Oil contract for railroad lines
R. W. Riddell of this city, manager for King Oil Co, obtained a contract to supply oil for 2,700 miles of the Chicago St Paul Milwaukee lines. The award followed his trip to Tacoma where A J Krohn Milwaukee assistant general storekeeper and L W Smith assistant signal manager discussed the matter.
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King Oil
King ON Co
Traffic deaths: 28 percent involve children under 15
A report finds about 28 percent of all persons killed by automobiles are children under 15. The study notes that lack of lubrication is cited as the chief cause of hard-working steering wheels.
Famous piston wins honors at Salem state fair
H B Johnston, manager of Johnston pistons and rings Seat tle made products, announced that his piston won first prize at the Salem state fair. Hemrick, Oregon representative, said the new piston was deemed the greatest improvement on auto engines among a dozen competitors.
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