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...sound of an airplone motor in the sky is no novelty to the citizens of Mineola, L. I. Planes from the airport began to drone aver the town in 1917; they have never stopped. Mumbling like bumblebees by day, complaining by night like mosquitoes brushed, for their plaguery, from the beard of their God, their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt...
Died. Herbert Parsons, 56, lawyer, Republican politician, onetime New York City Alderman (1900-1903), onetime member of Congress (1905-11), onetime (1916-1920) Republican National Committeeman from New York; in the House of Mercy Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass., of a ruptured kidney sustained attempting to ride his son's motor-driven bicycle...
...product of gasoline tax statistics is the record of the number of gallons consumed in the different states. California, it is estimated, will lead this year with 593,727,300 gallons; Ohio comes second vith 558,720,000; Pennsylvania third with 552,864,150. Fourth is Michigan, home of motor industry with 390,395,250, while Texas, home of distances and oil wells, runs fifth with 360,770,400. The next five (in order) are: Indiana with 293,267,250; Iowa with 277,257,600; Missouri with 236,349, 225,000; Wisconsin with 236,349, 450; Minnesota with...
...traffic. . . It costs 6? per minute to operate a five-ton truck in the city, and only 2? a minute for a team and wagon of the same capacity. . . The matter of length of service also has an important bearing on this problem. The initial cost of a motor truck is three times as much as a team and outfit, with a depreciation of 25 per cent to 33 per cent, which gives it only from three to four years' profitable service, as compared with ten years' team service...
...shoulder along the crowd. Both were sunburnt; both grinned broadly. While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...