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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1936
Page
5
Bud's Garage announces become a direct Dodge dealership and will install a new showroom. An open house will showcase the forthcoming line of Dodge passenger cars and trucks. Proprietor J. W. Fields notes Dodge offers sensational values with a small price gap over the lowest priced cars.
The article notes that helical gears are used in all speeds forward and reverse of the 1936 Studebaker transmission, highlighting the model’s gear design choice.
Maxine Brown America's Sweetheart of the Air praises the 1936 Hudson and Terraplanes from Detroit. She recalls old Hudsons twenty years ago and contrasts them with the new smooth ride, Tru Line steering, and Electric Hand shift. Brown notes faster travel, reduced effort, and improved comfort on long cross country trips.
Chevrolet Motor Company announced 1935 total production of 11,066,196 cars and trucks, the third highest year in company history and the fourth to exceed 1,000,000. December set a new monthly record at 115,483 units, while Q4 totaled 293,387, more than double 1934. The company also noted its 11,000,000th car in early December and an all-time production total of 11,106,278 from 1912 to 1935.
Dreams of a toll free bridge over the Missouri are realized with a two hour crossing window from 3 to 5 PM on Saturday for the Rew South Omaha bridge dedication funded by PWA money. The ceremony invites drivers to use the span across the river without charge during the event.
With two weeks left before the February 1 deadline, under half of Washington county cars have 1936 plates. 2,263 cars licensed, 200 fewer than last year at this date. 6,154 licensed in 1935, leaving over 2,500 unregistered. Trucks show slight gains. Eleven new cars and one truck registered this week. 36 transfers.
Samuel B. Horovitz, a Boston attorney, waited in Los Angeles for a reunion with his mother Mrs. Bessie Horovitz 61 wife Sara B. Horovitz 38 and son Seba David Horovitz 5 who were traveling from Wakefield Massachusetts to join him in a vacation in the South. The Arkansas swamp plane crash claimed their lives on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the boy’s birth.
A machine developed by Ford at the Rouge plant automates camshaft inspection. It checks 25 measurements on each V-8 camshaft with tight tolerances of 0.00026 and 0.001 inch. The system sorts in spec and rejects out of tolerance units, eliminating human error and reducing rejections after calibration.
Mary Morgan argues proper automobile manners apply to women as much as formal etiquette. She says courteous driving equals safe driving and lists rudeness such as hogging, beating, signaling failure, weaving, and unnecessary honking as common wrongs to be condemned.
Fayette Iowa Jan 17 In a swap of misfortune farmer Mike Lynch sought his insurer in Oelwein while the agent headed to Fayette and the two collided again Lynch hopes to settle small insurance details on both accidents in a brief encounter that day
Listings show a 1936 Chevrolet coach with 1936 plate priced at 136 dollars, a 1931 model A Tudor sedan, a 1925 Buick four door touring, a 1929 Plymouth sedan, a 1934 Chevrolet truck with long wheel base priced at 375 dollars, and a 1928 Oldsmobile coupe running well. Stewart's Auto Shop in North Iowa and Sincair Station in East Washington feature the ads with contact hints.
Riverside residents prepare for The Farmer's New Year on March 1 as multiple families relocate. Charles B. Rice will move to the Cloyd Cress farm. the Cloyd Cress family takes the Mela Hora site. Vern Droll shifts from Hills to the former Frank Dutler place. Howard Fisher moves to the Mary Mougin estate. the Holderness farm changes hands. J. J. Rotenburger shifts from the Mary and Peter H. Schneider area. and other transfers follow.
Rich Anderson, former state liquor commission sleuth now with a trucking firm, seeks an investigator role tied to the Mike Mercurio case. He says Mercurio is in Wisconsin while Governor Clyde Herring awaits Atty. Gen. Ryan’s draft on a solution to the liquor seals mystery.
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