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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1918
Page
5
Wartime shortages and harsh winters challenged car dealers as production fell and transport froze. Despite bleak forecasts, service departments became essential, shifting to paying bases, eliminating free work, and encouraging owners to care for their own cars. Dealers learned stricter merchandising and earned broader public respect as they adapted to wartime constraints.
Cleveland Oklahoma authorities enlist 67 patrolmen and American Protective League operatives to patrol streets amid a surge of fourte en murders and numerous robberies. Chief Smith appeals to reputable citizens to aid in ridding the city of burglars and gunmen.
Hudson motor cars will be distributed in Washington and the adjacent territory by the Lambert Hudson Motor Company. It will open a gates room at 1212 Connecticut avenue and a service station at 681-33-35 Massachusetts avenue northwest. Walter Lambert will manage the firm with prior Hudson experience and aims to provide up to the minute service. A five story service building will house the service unit and a complete stock room on the second floor. The ground floor showroom on Connecticut avenue will display a model of each Hudson type when it opens.
Growing dissatisfaction among motor car dealers over government occupancy of their lots and showrooms as the war ends. They seek prompt vacating to regain space for spring sales and restore proper service. Officials indicate delays in removal, with private business anticipated to take over wartime spaces soon.
American aviator Lieut Pat OBrien in British service announces plans for a transatlantic flight in April. He aims to be first to cross the ocean in an airplane. Associated with the venture are Captain TobP Butter and Capt Robinson, both on duty in France.
Residents complain enforcement of the 12 mile per hour streetcar and 15 foot stop rules is lax. The piece urges updating traffic laws to match current conditions, cites police manpower limits, and notes copies of regulations were unavailable delaying amendments.
Fragmentary OCR note questions why adapted amendments were never provided to the person responsible for overseeing that the printing was done. The language hints at a procedural lapse in document handling and printing duties. No names or dates appear in the readable portion.
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