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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1922
Page
10
Advertising section claims a single seven inch ad will sell all used cars. The 1920 Paige Roadster is described with five tires, recent overhaul, maroon paint, and wood seating for three. Price listed as $696.00 with optional terms.
Peerless engineers promote an improved taillight with an integrated stop signal and ground illumination for backing. The design also supports license plate visibility and mounts as a sturdy bracket. Officials claim it aligns with advancing state taillamp laws as nationwide auto employment and truck use rise.
Hal Baker of Western Auto Supply argues that many safety accessories are essential or legally required for cars. He cites safety lenses for headlights, reliable warning signals, horns, bumpers, fire extinguishers, windshield wipers, automatic stop signals, windshield visors, spotlights, and stop plates as reducing accidents and may lower insurance costs.
Ford dealers announce a large tractor show in Beattie open Oct 1 at Fourth and Blanchard, featuring Fordson power for industrial and agricultural use. The 240 by 90 foot tent will house 70 exhibits plus a motion picture tent showing Ford films. displays include locomotive drive wheels on a tractor, irrigation pumps, electric lighting, a bucket hoist, saw mills, loading gear, and road building machinery demonstrations.
A 1932 poem imagines a future with thousands of cars daily clogging roads. It weighs crowding versus pride in mobility, joking about licensing and parking while celebrating touring vehicles and social benefits of driving.
Features of road building equipment now spreading to this region come from major manufacturers to serve Fordson contractors. Fr D Harman of Cedar Falls Wash has invented a tire deflation warning device. Pennsylvania highways gain motorist telephones and an automatic bumper that cuts ignition and engages the emergency brake when struck.
A soft wire helps replace screws and other email parts in hard to reach places. It can be threaded through narrow gaps to manipulate fasteners, easing repairs where fingers cannot reach.
The wire is placed into position and the end is screwed in. Once work begins the wire can be pulled off with ease and adjusted as needed.
An Johns Manville and U S Bureau of Mines study finds vast gasoline losses from evaporation in uninsulated storage tanks. Tests in Oklahoma show insulation could cut losses. 775 tanks store 56 000 barrels each and lose over 6 million gallons monthly.
Road condition notes report gravel and new pavement across communities including Fall City Redmond Inglewood Woodinville Lake Forest Park and Renton Junction. Details mention excellent to fair surfaces with some rough sections 1000 feet near Melford and a detour route via North Truck road. Official opening of new pavement from city limits to Lake Forest Park scheduled at 290 pm October 7 with restricted tire traffic until after opening.
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