Graham Paige Cars Post New Year Sales Records
Graham Paige Motors reports a new sales high with car sales topping 80 million dollars in 1928. January output reached 5670 units, nearly four times January of the prior year, and the company is ahead of 1928’s pace with strong sixes and eights. Detroit release notes expanded production and distribution facilities to meet rising demand.
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Graham-Paige Motors Corporation
Graham- Paige
Graham-Paige
Detroit
Eleven Thousand Oldsmobiles Slated for February Output
Factory officials in Lansing Michigan report that 11,000 Oldsmobiles will be built during February, the largest February production in the history of the company.
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Oldsmobile
Lansing
Mich
Oldsmobile Sets January Production Record At 6500 Units
Oldsmobile reports a January production total of 6500 cars, a record for the first month. Output was four hundred percent higher than January last year when the model was introduced, with spring schedules expanding based on nationwide surveys by Oldsmobile officials. Despite high production, demand outpaced supply, leaving dealers with limited showroom stock and no reserve for the spring rush.
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Oldsmobile
Whippet Superior Fours and Sixes Set New Standard
Willys-Overland introduces the 1929 Superior Whippet Fours and Sixes highlighting design beauty and proven mechanical excellence. John N. Willys says low price car makers must include outstanding design to compete, challenging others in the Whippet class to meet this new benchmark.
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Willys-Overland Company
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland
Whippet Principles Shape Budget Car Acceptance
The passage notes that after the original Whippet's success, buyers in lower price ranges embraced the Toledo maker's engineering principles as representing the most modern practices, signaling a shift toward these standards in affordable models.
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Toledo
New Studebaker Line Strengthens Market Position
A Standard Statistics Company survey based on the New York auto show reports that Studebaker has strengthened its competitive position with the new Commander Hight and improved Commander Six and President Richt models. The Traders Securities Service Bulletin calls these 1929 models among the most attractive in the line.
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Studebaker
New York
Standard Statistic Company of
Traders Securities Service Bulletin
Oakland traveling men at convention in Pontiac
Pontiac Michigan February 16 Oakland Motor Car Company announces a two week traveling representative convention at the factory. Of about 100 travelers fifty are new to augment the field force for 1929 aims. All 25 Oakland district offices have representatives present through February 11 to 25. The event seeks to deepen traveler understanding of factory methods to boost sales and public service.
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Pontiac
Mich
Oakland Motor Car Company
Oakland-Pontiac
Oakland
United States
Ford
W .H. Loudon
Tolhurs and Kolbe families visit in Cleveland area
Miss Florence Tolhurs of Cleveland spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Ward Tol, and Mr and Mrs Alvin Kolbe and family of Brownherm were Sunday callers at the home of Mrs Catherine Kole.
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Middle Ridge
Florence Tolhurs
Cleveland
Ward Tolswee Abase
Alvin Kolbe
Brownherm
Catherine Kole Ani Sre
Local Social Notes From Brownhelm And Nearby Areas
Mrs. George Eppley attended the Women’s Missionary society at Brownhelm Evangelical chapred. Numerous brief visits and gatherings are noted including families from Amherst, Penfield Junction, and Vermilion. Activities include meetings of Victory Tree Grange, a biology club sleigh ride, social times, church society dinners, and various visits and illnesses across Elyria and surrounding towns.
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George Eppley
Women’s Missionary Society
Brownhelm Evangelical
Geo
Stick
Brownhelm
FE. C. Catton
Edwin
N. W. Bechtel
Victory Tree Grange
Amherst
Lerain High School
Katherine Schmitkens
Mary Britain
Marjorie Ahrens
Esther Dempsey
A. K. Jenne
BR. HW. Hearn
Frances Richmond
R. H. Hearn
Anna Brandan Johns
Harry Haiti
Luella Cotton
Ammona Girls
Rose Vicha
Penfield Junction
F. O. Fleming
William Bechtel
Milton Ludwig, Jr
Painesville
Cleveland Clinic
Kipton notes and church leadership change near town
Kipton February 16. Mrs Orson Humphrey of Elria visited Mrs J L Brown. Reverend Harding resigned as pastor of Community church and Mr Bunker was hired as pastor. Mrs J K Brown visited daughter Marian in Cleveland. Mrs Hewitt of Lorain and Mrs Ackerman of Amherst visited Gower family. Peter Beam is having a well drilled. Waller Aid Society entertained at Mrs James Calkins home. Mr and Mrs J L Brown attended Mrs Brown's aunt's funeral.
Old Memphis slave market being razed for modern offices
In Memphis Tennessee the building that housed the Souths leading slave market is being torn down to make way for a contemporary office structure. The site recalls Gen Nathan Bedford Forest famed Confederate leader who once dominated slave sales in the room at center stage. The Forest Brothers operated there before the Civil War, and the trade sign once read Ike Nevers Nesto Mart though erosion faded it.
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Memphis
Tenn
Nathan Bedford Forest
Gen. Forest
Forest Brothers
Ike Nevers
Nesto Mart
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Jim Calkins
Camden
C. A. Weeks
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