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Anyone whose motor has broken down in the Adirondacks near Ballston Spa, N. Y., well remembers the towing car that thunders out to fetch cripples into Ballston Spa's leading garage. A sturdy, determined car of incredible age, seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with...
...companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures he will have will be discretionary incidentals like caddy hire,* new balls, refreshments, etc., etc. The company will warm his golfing cockles. Two such trips have been arranged for by Charles Stewart...
Self-sequestered Thibet, with 2,000,000 souls, has only one motor vehicle, a motor cycle, for its stamping, prayer-whirling priests to scowl...
Four out of five (19,999,436 put of 25,973,928) motor cars of the world...
Fort Wayne, Ind., remembers a short, wiry, 16-year-old boy whose parents, in 1910, mortgaged their home for $1,800 that he might fly. He purchased materials, a motor, built a plane, showed his mother how to sew canvas on his wings. His first flight wiped out six months' work all but the motor. He built again, flew at exhibitions, paid off the mortgage. He learned to loop the loop before most U. S. flyers. Soon fleecy streamers of smoke were seen high over cities, spelling out trademarks for advertisers. The Fort Wayne boy had invented "sky-writing...