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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1924
Page
10
The Shoreen Motor Co of Evanston led Ford tractor sales in January across three counties including Chicago and earned an extra carload of Ford cars. The article cites Ford’s price reductions fueling demand, notes supply and demand govern prices, and quotes Henry Ford predicting a low priced car for the masses with greater future popularity.
Henry Ford’s 1910 article foresaw the automobile boom and contrasts 1909 sales of 2,000,000 horse drawn vehicles to 80,000 cars. By 1923 motor car sales reached about 4,000,000 with 100,000 horse drawn vehicles, showing the predicted transition from horse to motor transportation.
How often do you test your brakes He really careful driver pays as much attention to his brakes as he does to his engine because he knows that it is more important to be able to stop when he wants to than to merely make speed We make a specialty of taking care of brakes Bring in your car for Free Brake Inspection we'll show you how to tell whether your brakes are working at their best Should they need relining we will be glad to put in a set of Multibestos linings promptly and reasonably
Comedian M. M. Coburn of the musical comedy So This Is London calls his Paige phaeton Aspirin, explaining it “takes the pain out of driving.” The remark was attributed to A. Vincent of the San Diego Paige company.
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