Pay While You Ride Tire Plan At Standard Tire
The Standard Tire company reports two years of success with a pay while you ride plan at 229 Fifth Street West. Manager D W Strang says less than 2 percent fail to complete contracts, noting plans include flexible terms from 1 dollar up with weekly payments. The scheme boosts volumes at Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Iowa City stores with no cash-pressure sales.
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Standard Tire Company
Fifth Street West
D. W. Strang
Waterloo Credit Guide
Krept
Strang
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Hudson Quotation System Aims at Home Delivery Prices
Hudson Motor Car company introduces a new price quotation system for Hudson and Essex cars. Prices are quoted as delivered at the buyer’s door rather than factory price. The change marks a rare shift after 25 years of factory floor pricing. Hudson-Essex Waterloo manager W. O. Keefe says production is rising to 1,300 six cylinder cars daily and will soon reach 1,700. This output growth reflects demand for the car and its door-to-door pricing.
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Hudson Motor Car Company
Hudson
W. O. Keefe
Hudson-Essex Waterloo Company
Retired Waterloo Engineer Tours the Sunny South in Home on Wheels
Charles BE. Rawards a retired Illinois Central locomotive engineer and his wife Mrs Edwards explore the south in a self built mobile home on a heavy Mord truck chassis. Their trip began September 19 1925 from Waterloo Iowa with stops in Geneva Iowa Shenandoah Iowa Nebraska City Missouri Topeka and Wichita before Texas and Oklahoma engagements. They sleep in the car and rely on private properties for lodging preferring a slow paced tour with no fixed timetable and plan to return to Waterloo in May or June.
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Texas
Charles BE. Rawards
Argyle Street
Edwards
Illnois Central
Beaumont
Harry J. Reynolds
Illinois Central
Beaumont (Tex
Waterloo
Geneva
Shenandoah
Nebraska City
Missouri
Topeka
Wichita
Oklahoma
Custer County
Reynolds
Dwards
Albert Lea
Minn
Crowells Return from Far Honeymoon to Cadillac Sedan
Mrs. Roger J. Crowell returns to Waterloo from a world honeymoon in a new five passenger Cadillac sedan, a wedding surprise from her husband. Crowell, president of Waterloo Ice Cream, left Waterloo December 26, married Miss Webster Paxton of Mansfield, Ohio. Morris Motor Co arranged delivery at the train. the couple visited Oshkosh Chicago Los Angeles and a Hawaiian cruise.
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Roger J. Crowell
Waterloo
Crowell
Waterloo Ice Cream Company
Cleveland
Wsther Paxton
Mansfield
C. A. Morris
Morris Motor Car Company
Morris
Mr. Crowell
Wis
Chicago
Los Angeles
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Tropic City Car Trip Ends With Many Cadillacs
A traveler described a tropical city filled with plenty of automobiles and a large number of Cadillacs. He noted the best part of the trip was arriving home in a new car from the Waterloo depot.
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Waterloo
Franklin Weight Distribution Boosts Car Roadability
Franklin's Weight Distribution to Aid Car's Roadability explains how the Franklin Automobile Company's J. S. Marks promotes scientific balance. It notes the running gear weight versus body and passenger load, and cites improved traction and speed from lighter rear axles in racing contexts.
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J. S. Marks
Franklin Automobile
Altha
Wrantlin
Grundy Center Pastor to Speak at Baptist Union Conference
Rev. David Alexander, pastor of the Baptist church in Grundy Center Indiana, has been invited to speak at the annual Baptist Bible Union conference to be held in Washington DC in late May. The auditorium seating capacity is 0,000.
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Grundy Center
David “Alexander
The
Baptist Church
Baptist Bible Union Conference
Washington, D. C
Hampton Church of Christ WI Receives New Pastor
Hampton Iowa announces the installation of a new pastor to lead the Hampton Church of Christ. The incoming pastor, Mr Pringle, currently serves at Earlham and expects to be on the field in about 20 days. The note mentions Franz Liszt as a pianist of note before his teens.
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Hampton Church OF Christ
Hampton
Feba Eeees
Rhona
Pringle
Earlham
Franz Liszt
Incompetence by Drivers and Traffic Reform Call
Editorial urges strict license tests for drivers and tougher law enforcement to curb auto accidents. Charles 8 Scott argues for universal driver examinations, harsher penalties for reckless motorists, and national safety council support to cut 1925 auto fatalities of 21,000, up 5 percent from 1924.
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National Safety Council
Floyd County Wins Suit Over Maintenance of Patient
Charles Guy February 24. Judge C H Kelley ruled Floyd county liable for support of Harley Gish, a patient at Cherokee hospital. The Cerro Gordo county insanity board had found Gish resided in Cerro Gordo, a claim reversed. Floyd county must be reimbursed for prior payments and future maintenance shifted to the state.
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Floyd County
Cherokee
Charles Guy
C. H. Kelley
Harley Gish
Cherakde
Board of Commissioners of Insanity
Cerro Gordo County
Gish
Kelyey
Ployd
Henry C. Smith Dies at Manchester After Long Life
Henry C. Smith a Delaware county native born May 4 1856 died Tuesday after a brief illness in Manchester Iowa He lived on a Richland Township farm later owned a Manchester store and invested in western lands He raised fine Shetland ponies and was active in Hyperion Knights of Pythias Masons Modern Woodmen of America and public service He married Margaret W H Tilton on December 31 1882 and left widow six children and siblings including W C Smith Irene Welch Kate Bush and Ethel Crain The funeral of his sister Mrs M G Ham was held near Delhi prior to his death.
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Manchester
Fev
Henry C. Smith
Delaware County
M. G. Ham
Delhi
Smith
Richland Township
Government Land
Inman
Margaret WH. Tilton
Fam
Hyperion Judge
Knights of Pythias
Masonic Fraternity
Knights Templar
Woodmen of America
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Washington, D.C
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Charles 8. Scott
Natiorality Council
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Brougham Sedan
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Hudson-Essex Waterloo CO
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