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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1928
Page
3
President Greer explains how depreciation is calculated on cars for commercial use, with typical yearly rates from 40 percent in year one to junk value by year six. Examples show a $1,000 list car dropping to $600 after year one and $250 after year three, noting mileage and repair costs as critical factors.
Washington Oct 31 The Brazilian government reports that a completed bridge or highway segment now allows driving from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo and onward to Montevideo covering about 1200 miles. Representative Menezes notes only an 80 mile coastal detour remains unfinished on Rio Grande do Sul coast.
The early aviation tale recounts the first attempts to imitate birds with flapping wings then a shift to gliders balloons and primitive machines. Despite 500 years of failure pioneers persisted carrying us from fragile craft to safer flights and setting the stage for modern aviation.
Iowa farms numbered 210,108 while farm registered autos reached 212,973. The census shows 2,865 more farmer owned vehicles than farms, 45,195 tractors, about one per four farms, 76,036 radios on farms, and a 4,583 rise in tractors from 1926.
In September 1928 Durant Motors broke previous production and sales records at the Elizabeth New Jersey plant, with a 69 percent rise from September 1927 and total output across all four Durant plants exceeding the prior year. New Durant Four and Durant Six Series 60 models were produced and announced without curtailing production.
The piece warns that underinflated front tires on hot pavement can blow out and cause veer, noting front-wheel blowouts are especially dangerous. It highlights the logic of four-inch tires and discusses rear-wheel strain from blowouts, then reports General Tire and Rubber Co.’s new dual-balloon tire promising high mileage, ride comfort, and strong demand.
When one wheel travels on a smaller arc than the other a rear wheel blowout reduces diameter. The differential speeds the opposite wheel causing a skid. Cut the front wheels into the skid direction and stop the car as soon as possible.
London reports party leaders volley statistics ahead of the general election next year. The Labour press blasts Baldwinism, calling it rich-friendly, and cites published figures showing investments up and wages down during 1928.
A Minneapolis man, proud of twelve years with no accident, suffers a fatal crash caused by one moment of forgetfulness. The piece argues pedestrians and motorists must obey traffic signals, noting cities with such laws report fewer accidents and that heedless behavior can cost weeks in hospital and years in a grave.
A dispute within the P. E. O. Sisterhood over a statement by Mrs. Alex Miller, Iowa supreme president, endorsing Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Des Moines chapters adopted resolutions deploring the statement. Martha McClure urged the supreme president to disavow it, while Miller said she acted as a citizen, not a politician, and cited loyalty to her husband’s party.
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