Buick on Rails: Car Converted for Track Travel by Railroad Chief
Phil Carroll, superintendent of the Kansas division of Missouri Pacific, converted a Buick touring car into a private railroad car. The vehicle, now rails compatible with disc wheels and flanged rims, includes a cowcatcher, special radiator shell, glass-top cabin, and enhanced ventilation. Carroll reports long service and prefers it to standard private cars.
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Phil Carroll
Kansas
Mixrouri Pacific Railroad
Carroll
Buick
Industrial Tractor Show Set for Seattle October 16
The first Industrial Tractor show opens October 16 in Seattle at Fourth Ave and Blanchard St under Ford and 70 dealers west of the Cascades. Nearly 60 major manufacturers will display equipment from rail operations to road and earthmoving gear with live demonstrations and nightly talks on modern industry.
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Seattle
Fourth Ave
Blanchard St
Ford Motor Company
Ford Dealers
Cascade Mountains
Fordson Tractor
Hughes-Keenan Co
Cleveland
Skagit Steel and Iron
Oiling cover for springs hits the market
An attachment to keep springs quiet is marketed as a small metal cover that fits over each end spring. It features a channel to feed oil between the leaf spaces and a cup at the top to maintain a steady oil supply.
New 1923 Oakland Switch Features Dimming and Throttle
A new headlight dimming switch and spark and throttle control are mounted on a compact steering column housing for the 1923 Oakland series. The dimmer is an electric switch wired across the ignition lighting resistance, while the spark and throttle levers control internal pulleys with braided wires running through the column to the distributor and carburetor.
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Oaklands
Wheat Exports Rise via Seattle Port on Lower Rates
Montana growers gain cheaper access to export markets as Great Northern and Northern Pacific cut rates. The reduction of seven cents per hundred pounds matches domestic levels, enabling Montana wheat to move through Seattle as cheaply as Atlantic or Gulf ports under the Chicago Milwaukee J Paul system.
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Montana
Seattle
Great Northern
Northern Pacific Railway
Chicago, Milwaukee & &J. Paul
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico Porta
Missing Relatives Column Seeks Help From Readers
The Star invites readers to help reunite separated relatives and friends. Report disappearances to The Star and alert others who may know whereabouts. Mrs. C. F. Personett is last known at 1823 Harbor Ave Seattle. Gerhard Reuss seeks her. Robert Stevens, last heard from in 1904, formerly at New Haven Hotel Beattie area seeks information from City Comptroller H. W. Carroll.
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The
Star
Ths
C. F. Personett
Harbor Ave
S. W
Seattle
Mra
Gerhard Reuss
Anacortes
Wash
Robert Stevens
Ming BE. M. Stevens
Commercial Road
Portsmouth
England
H. W. Carroll
Beattie
New Haven Hotel
Firat Ave
Chevrolet Body Plant Expands Across United States
Detroit based Fisher Body corporation announces an expansion plan adding six assembly plants with over 1.5 million new square feet for Chevrolet closed bodies. The Fisher Body St Louis unit will run the former GM Pulck plant in St Louis for closed bodies, joining Pontiac open body production and a Cleveland plant, totaling three plants with more than three million square feet. New plants remain under construction to assemble paint and trim Chevrolet models.
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Detroit
Mid
Fred J. Fisher
Fisher Body Corporation
Thin City
United States
Chevrolet
Fisher Body
St. Louis Company
General Motors Pulck
St. Louie
A A A urges uniform light and mirror laws for traffic
M G Eldridge director of roads for the American Automobile Association Good Roads board says uniform state laws should require mirrors on trucks and lights on horse drawn vehicles. He notes 12 states require mirrors on trucks. few regulate horse drawn vehicles. Such measures, he argues, would reduce highway accidents and fatalities nationwide.
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M. G. Eldridge
American Automobile Association
Good Roads Board
Eldridge
Secretary of Commerce
Vermont
Washington
California
Connecticut
New York
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Smugglers Captured After Tire Firefight on Mexican Border
On a dark night near Calexico a big car failed to stop for immigration officers. Shots were fired at the vehicle twice but its untouched Savage cord front tire allowed it to escape until a rear tire blew and the smugglers were halted. Earl Gaskell recounts the event from his experience at Spreckels Savage Tire.
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Dix
Calexico
Earl Gaskell
Spreckels “Savage” Tire Company
United States Immigration Service
Spreckela
Cadillac Men Are Optimists
MH TH Rice president of the Cadillac Motor Car Co told distributors from nearly 100 organizations at the annual convention the company plans to run factories at full force in winter with output greater than the past year, the greatest in Cadillac history. He expressed optimism about the coal situation and general business trends.
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Cadillac
MH. TH. Rice
Cadillac Motor Car Co
Rice
Women Roused Against Jap Invasion on Pacific Coast
Mrs. Katherine Willard Eddy traveling secretary for the national Y M C A board says women nationwide are aroused and uniting against Japanese efforts to encroach on the Pacific coast. She notes women are lining up solidly in opposition to the menace and are taking action to resist.
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Pacific
Katherine Willard Eddy
National Board of the
99Year Lease Awarded for Silverstone Building
A 99 year lease on the Silverstone building at Weatlake Avenue and Pine Street has been awarded to a corporation represented by its head A Shemanski. The deal is tied to the Boston Drug Company and involves about 2.7 million dollars.
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Silverstone
Weatlake Ave
Pine At
A. Shemans Ki
Boston Drug Company
Yacht Club Observes Close of Its Season
The Seattle Yacht Club on Bainbridge Island at Port Madison hosts a barbecue and clam bake on Saturday to close the yachting season. The two day observance continues with a Sunday program featuring a picnic and yacht races.
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Port Madison Beach
Bainbridge Island
Seattle Yacht Club
N. P. Offers Special Fare for Dairy Show Dates
Northern Pacific Railway announces a special fare and a half on certificate plan for the National Dairy Show at St Paul and Minneapolis. The offer runs October 5 to 18 for travelers from Montana Idaho Washington Oregon west of Glendive.
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Northwest
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northern Pacific Railway Today
Glendive
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
British Lecturer to Speak on Anti Vivisection
Dr Walter Hadwen of Glouches ter England will lecture Wednesday evening in the Seattle Philosophical Society rooms Lippy building at o o clock. His topic is Anti Vivisection and Humanity.
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Walter Hadwen
Glouchester
England
Seattle Theosophical Society
Lippy Building
At & O
Admiral Watson Docking in Seattle from the North
The steamship Admiral Watson under Captain Peter Oberg was due to dock in Seattle Saturday from the North with a cargo mainly of canned salmon mild cured fish and pickled herring. The British museum houses the oldest Chinese writing on animal bones inscriptions.
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Admiral Watson
Peter Oberg
Seattle
Shoe
British Museum
Walnut Origins Traced to China Not England
A note on botany reveals that the English walnut commonly believed to be native to England actually originated in China, challenging traditional naming and highlighting its Asian ancestry.
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China
Vitamins and their food sources discussed by Dr McCollum
Dr B V McCollum of Johns Hopkins testifies before Senate committees on agriculture and forestry about vitamins A B C and D. He notes vitamin A in liver fats butter yolk and leafy greens, vitamin B in peas beans liver kidneys and greens, vitamin C in fresh foods and vegetables but destroyed by processing, and vitamin D mainly in cod liver oil shark liver oil and burbot from Lake Michigan.
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Lake Michigan
B. V. McCollum
Johns Hopkins University
Senate
Moon Motor Car Co. reports record August production
Moon Motor Car Co of St Louis announces 1018 cars produced in August with expectations for higher September output. The firm studies Moon cars maintenance and adds a large building, half for factory maintenance, as it expands its services.
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Ford
ST. Louis, Mo
The
Moon Motor Car Co
St. Louis
Moon Company
New Radio Head Named for YMCA A Department
New Radio Men at Y M C A H M Truesdell of the Electric Co will head the radio department at Y M C A starting Monday. HL N foreman of Sunset Motor Co seeks an instructor for the electrical department.
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Y.M.C
H. M. Truesdell
the Electric Co
HL N. Foreman
Sunset Motor Co
Will Nees
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