Early Wheels Museum Displays Many Historic Vehicles
The Early Wheels Museum at 817 Wabash Ave exhibits 25 vintage cars from 1898 to 1921, plus bicycles, motorcycles, a Conestoga wagon, and an 1885 Leeds steam engine. Highlights include two electric cars from 1899 and 1902, top-line 1921 Hispano Suiza and Isotta Fraschini, and notable models like the Model T Ford and Brush Runabout with a Pike’s Peak record.
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Early Wheels Museum
Wabash Ave
Tony Hulman
Hispano Suiza
Isotta Fraschini
Ford
Oldsmobile
Buick
Maxwell
Franklin
Overland
Olds
Woodstock mother charged in double stabbing case
Peggy McPherson 38 is charged with two counts of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her children, Peggy 13 and Roger 10, as they slept in Woodstock. Both children suspended in serious condition at Sherman Hospital Elgin. weapon reportedly barber scissors. An appearance set in Woodstock Circuit Court.
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Woodstock, Ill
Woodstock
Peggy McPherson
Roger
Sherman Hospital
Elgin
Alvin Witte
Nancy Anne McPherson
Witte
Bottle Fever fuels search for oldest American glass containers
Washington AP reports the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute seeks the six oldest or most unusual American-made bottles. Kenneth Wilson of the Henry Ford Museum notes that several dozen aged or rare bottles have been found. Winners receive an all expense paid trip to the Jamestown Glasshouse, site of America's first factory.
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Washington
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
Kenneth Wilson
Henry Ford Museum
GCMI
Jamestown
America
Burglary Reports Hit Local Homes and Business
A Terre Haute man reported $775 in cash and four stereo speakers stolen from a locked chest. Clifford Woods said a front door was kicked in Tuesday between 4 and 6 pm. A safe was taken from Little Pigs BBQ but recovered by police before opening. Witnesses heard a glass break near 10:45 pm as two suspects fled with a safe, later found unopened in an alley. A citizen band radio worth $189 disappeared from Guy Hammond’s auto during a 20 minute absence.
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Terre
Guy L. Hammond
Krumbhaar
Hammond
Electricity Costs in New York Rise on Fuel and Taxes
Fuel coal oil and nuclear energy and taxes account for almost half of the average New York household electricity bill. The report highlights how energy sources and levies shape monthly charges for residents.
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New York
Electric car drives itself around motel lot shocks owner in Salem
In Salem Illinois a Sebring Citicar owned by James A. Baughn roams a motel parking lot without a driver. Onlookers found it comical while the owner called the situation perplexing and unusual for the self propelled vehicle.
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Salem
Ill
UPI
James A. Baughn
Sebring Citicar
Self-igniting car wrecks motel lot and spreads flames
A car parked at a motel owned by its proprietor reportedly caught fire and then moved autonomously. It drove into a neighbor’s yard, spread flames across grass, returned to the motel lot, struck another vehicle, and burned to a scrap metal pile in battery acid. The owner paid $3,000 for the car years ago.
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Baughn
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U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center
Wabash Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America
First Baptist Church
Poplar St
Ron Smith
Otto Nasser
James L. Snow
Naval Reserve
Ben Wernz
House of Photography
Early Wheels
Abernathy
Brush
N. Y
Oklahoma
Sears
Indiana
DeDion Bouton
George Pierce
Cannonball Baker
Rey
Vay
Pride Eta Detergent
Procter & Gamble
Lee
Stan Steel Corporation
National Steel Products
Clyde G. Hall
U.S. Savings Bonds Division
U.S. Treasury
Jack Moody
Stran Steel
Bill Brackall
Stran Steel Union
Don Harry Jr
Yroot
Honey Creek
Orig
Bootster
Frances Wig
Prince Marco
Medacrylic Dynel
Honey Creek Sq
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