License fees hit 150000 as Iowa auto registrations rise
Des Moines reports brisk auto registrations for 1926 with 665000 motor vehicles, 640000 autos. State records show 30580000 in license fees last year and expected total near ten million as counties shift numbers and retain some old plates.
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Des Moines
State Automobile Department
State Department
Standard Oil
Iowa
Amo Une
Ibig
Clinton
Webster Counties
Winneshiek
Worth
Wright
Demarid Steady for Rickenbacker Sixes and Eights
Rickenbacker Motor reports September shipments for sixes and vertical eights at 1060 percent of September 1924. Hodkins cites October up 30 percent from last year and predicts November will exceed 100 percent, crediting rising demand and buyers’ purchasing power.
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R. T. Hodkins
Rickenbacker Motor Company
Higher Powered Cars Seen as Demand for Years Ahead
The article cites Walter P. Chrysler and William Ulman forecasting cars capable of 96 mph within two years. It notes road improvements like concrete highways reducing grades and turns, pushing buyers to seek sustained high speed and comfort. The fragment ends with a train incident and a death linked to an Alverado collision.
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Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler ‘Corporation
William Ulman
Detroit Automobile
Detroit Motor News
Uliman SA Bas
Surging Auto Demand Drives Record Fall Orders in Industry
The text notes large harvests boosting buying and a strong push for enclosed cars. It says millions prefer closed autos, making business better than ever for the fall and predicting a flood of orders rather than warehousing, with January expected to bring even more demand.
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Jan
Democrats for Total Repeal of Excise Tax Seen in 1930s
Washington reports Democrats plan to press for complete repeal of the excise tax on passenger cars rather than a mere reduction. They argue this stance will appeal to 417,000,000 car owners, while Republicans seek a two percent cut and repeal of taxes on trucks tires and parts. Leaders Swanson Garner Oldfield will lead the challenge to keeping any three percent rate.
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Washington
Coolidge-Melion Alliance
Automotive Daily News
Congress
Altho
House
Ways and Means
Claude Swanson
Virginia
John A. Garner
Texas
William A. Oldfield
Obstructionist minority push against automotive tax repeal
The minority seeks to block progress and force acceptance of their demands to abolish the total automotive tax through obstructionist tactics if needed.
Crude Rubber on Unsteady Market
Akron brokers describe the crude rubber market as unsettled amid shifting prices and demand in this early December report. The piece notes volatility and cautious trading by local dealers.
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Akron
Speculative rubber market unsettled with record futures highs
The market is described as purely a speculators market with suspended supply and demand. Prices for rubber and related products climbed to new highs with futures and December 1926 deliveries quoted above the spot market. Dealers note manufacturers with independent supply are trading front hand to mouth while brokers expect ample stocks initialy.
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Ber
Altho
Philanderer Married in Sunday Night Scene
In Omaha Nebraska Lewis Weymiller reportedly found with Fred Williams of Sioux City printing his wife Dorothy Cantentbein. Williams formerly lived in New Albia and had wed Dorothy, ending a secret union exposed Sunday night.
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Philanderer
Omahs
Lewis Weymiller
Fred. Willams
Sioux City
Lved
New Albia
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CONRY
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Doose Bromhers
Scott Goon
Mee
Buick
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Buick Motor CO
Flint, Michigan
General Motora Corporation
Black Hawk
Buick CO
Cash
West Pourtt
Oakland
DuMond Motor Co., Inc
A. 3
DuMond, Pres
East Fifth Street
Oakland Motor Car Company
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General Motors
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