Stearns Knight Sales Chief Recalls West Trip
F B Stearns Company Cleveland sales manager Guy Vaughan returns from a Westward journey with prospects of a big season and tales that include an unsettling encounter at a Fort Worth home. He describes being invited into a front yard and yard gate that now chills him.
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Guy Vaughan
F. B. Stearns Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Stearns-Knight
West
Guy
Fort Worth
Auto Topics and a Lively Drive to a Far Gate
Auto Topics describes A. R. Tummel returning from a Reo factory trip to Lansing and Adams Machine delivering eighteen cars. The narrator recalls driving thirteen miles from a white fence gate to a house, noting the distance with a speedometer check and a humorous warning about a somnambulist named Guy attempting similar travel in a rocking chair.
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Vaughan
Bankers See Cars at New York Show
H W Ford president of the Saxon Motor Car Company notes bankers are now engaged with the 1916 automobile show in New York. He says banking interests increasingly back transportation, marking a shift from viewing autos as a fad to seeing them as a sound investment for estates and trusts.
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New York
H. W. Ford
Saxon Motor Car Company
America
Stock Exchange
The Silent Waverley at the New York Show
The Waverly Company of Indianapolis exhibits the 1916 Light Four Model 1. It marks a departure in mechanics and aesthetics with clear driver vision emphasized from the previous Electric. The design features a two passenger rear offset seat and a folding front chair, highlighting the year’s progressive provisions.
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Waverly Company
Indianapolis
New York
Waverley Company
Chalmers Donates Car As Prize To Employee Sugges tions
Hugh Chalmers announced at a December 23 gathering of more than 4,000 Chalmers Motor Company employees that a Chalmers Six-30 touring car will be awarded to the employee submitting the most valuable suggestion for saving money at the plant during the next six months. Cash prizes of 500 dollars will be divided among the next best suggestions.
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Chalmers Motor Company
Hugh Chalmers
Chalmers
Frisco dealer buys train load of Saxons
Thirty day sales push peaked in San Francisco as F L Du Bray Saxon dealer secured orders for a train of twenty three cars valued at 150 dollars shipped from Detroit. Auto Service Company are local Saxon dealers. L G Adams of Adams Machine Company visited Thomasville. Bloch Brothers delivered two touring cars and a roadster to Claiburn Alabama and one touring car to Eugene Thoss in city.
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San Francisco
F.L. du Bray
Detroit
The
Auto Service Company
Bloch Brothers
Claiburn
Ala
Eugene Thoss
Studebaker Unveils Series 17 Models and Prices
Announcement covers the new Studebaker Series 17 six and four cylinder cars with eleven refinements and price reductions. Shipments have been going to dealers for two weeks as 8 000 outlets display the lineup including sedans roadsters and coupes with noted divided seat design and increased roominess.
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Studebaker
Studebaker Corporation
Hart-Bell Carbon Remover for Steam Cleaning Motors
An advertisement explains using live steam to loosen and blow out carbon from engines. The Hart-Bell Carbon Remover features a three way valve tapping into the intake manifold to deliver a fine spray of water vapor when the engine runs, mixing with intake air to loosen carbon.
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Hart-Bell
Prosperity Seen By Jeffery Company President
Charles T. Jeffery of Kenosha Wisconsin proclaims prosperity as factories report booming orders across many lines. He notes 3000 workers in his plant, up from 1300 a year ago, with departments operating day and night and shipments in the first six days of the month exceeding those of December last year. J D Bloch is confined to bed with la grippe.
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Charles T. Jeffery
Thomas B. Jeffery Company
Kenosha
Wis
Federal Truck Company Distributes Bonus Fund
The Federal Motor Truck Company shared a substantial bonus with all employees with six months service or more. Bonuses totaled in the thousands as workers from factory to office received gifts of appreciation from the board during the Christmas season.
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Federal Motor Truck Company
Federal Board of Directors
Mother and Harold Discuss Postcollege Plans
A Philadelphia Ledger dialogue shows Harold and his mother arguing over immediate employment after college. The mother urges timely work while Harold prefers waiting for an offer, preferring dignity in due course.
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Harold
Phi Delphia Ledger
Fannie Ward Drives A Classy Kissel Auto
Miss Fannie Ward, noted stage luminary, is described with a Kissel All Year Sedan featuring plush wool upholstery and white wire wheels. The feature notes her recent roles including President and praises the car’s elegant styling and pace.
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Fannie Ward
Geveral
Kissel
Miss Ward
Pacific i
Setan
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