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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1915
Page
18
Alfred Reeves of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce reports 708 597 cars produced in the year, wholesale value 538 468 803 dollars, a 36 percent rise in output and over 10 percent in value from the prior year. Demand shifts to smaller cars in rural areas as prices fall and costs drop.
Cadillac runs 100 miles in 82 minutes 48.8 seconds, averaging 72.49 mph and covering 72.41 miles in the first hour. The eight cylinder model is touted as the fastest touring car in America, eclipsing prior American touring car marks and beating a second Cadillac by 1.35 miles in the hour.
The Chattanooga Automobile company sold a seven passenger eight cylinder Cadillac to Judge M. M. Allison president of the Dixie Highway Association. The car will be delivered in Chicago to lead the Dixie Highway inspection tour which departs October 9 from Chicago to Miami Florida.
E. R. Benson resigns as vice president and director of the Studebaker Corporation to become distributor for Studebaker cars in Maine and part of New Hampshire. His long affiliation with Studebaker and the new territory are expected to bring success for both him and the company.
A teacher in an infant class uses a suggested method to prompt the children. She asks what you always must have when you go automobiling. The chorus quips a puncture, echoing a playful judge’s remark.
Cleveland Ohio October 9 The settlement of the machinists strike at Cleveland Automatic Machine Co was approved by a two to one vote. Eight hour day at current wage for machinists and helpers with overtime rates for ninth and tenth hours and beyond. All workers to be recalled including fifteen discharged. no union discrimination. plant to maintain open shop.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company concludes a nationwide sales conference in Akron praising a record year. Managers from across the country cite reaching and surpassing the 2,000,000 tire department milestone and anticipate an even better 1916 despite wartime and weather challenges.
A Ward special will travel from New York to Cleveland to test operating costs on country roads. It debuts at the Electrical Exhibition and Motor Show in Grand Central Palace from October 6 to 16 and reaches Cleveland by October 18 for the Electric Vehicle Association of America convention opening.
An old advertisement touts GETS-IT as the genuine corn treatment free of substitutes. It promises two drops remove corn cores without pain and warns against dangerous replicas sold locally.
Discontented motorists might be expected to back good roads as equal beneficiaries with farmers and tourists when hard surfaced highways are completed. In Mobile and Baldwin counties engineers are at work to unite interests and build a scenic route for week end tours, pine woods citrus belt and fishing resorts, urging automobile owners to lead in road creation efforts.
Cadil lac Motor Car Company manager says September, typically slow, is the best month. PaigeDetroit increases production to 150 cars daily amid record shipments. General Motors Truck in talks for a local agency. Touring booms as fall weather boosts country road trips. Cadillac buyer Robert Hunter purchases a 1916 Cadillac 8. Ford shipments delayed. bona fide orders required. Cadillac record run Los Angeles to San Francisco shown in motion pictures.
Richard Bennett's New York company brings Brieux's Damaged Goods to the Lyric for matinee and night performances on Saturday October 16. The play treats the social evil with frankness and moral purpose, prompting audience action against the issue. Seat sales begin October 13 at the Lyric box office.
The notice lists deaths including Frank B. Malone John Emmons Vincent Bronson Kenneth Camrell Oliva Floyd Little and others and births listing many couples and twins with varied names. Berlin reports Premier Zaimis has studied German culture and earned a Heidelberg doctorate.
Dealers note a surprising rise in limousine purchases this early season. New styles and better alignment with buyers incomes have boosted popularity as winter connotations fade and saloon images shift toward affordable luxury for more motorists.
Farmers and manufacturers alike are making more money in Canada today than ever before. Louis Logie, Canadian district manager for the Chalmers Motor Company, reports a booming motor car market with 7,000 more cars sold to date than last year. Maritime provinces show sales up 60 percent, and gains are noted in the western provinces as well.
Auto makers in the United States used foreign terms to label components and features of the first self propelled vehicles. The note traces how these linguistic choices reflected design influences and marketing strategies in the era.
The Studebaker Corporation gains the Peoples Ice Company plant and plans to boost automobile output. The Overland Bowling League prepares to kick off its fifth season October 4 at Willys-Overland factory alleys with a large turnout and music. An eight-cylinder King logs 800 miles in California on the Hi with a sealed gearbox work, touring from the Mexican border to Santa Barbara and beyond.
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