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...retirement lasted only a few months. While inspecting some Michigan peat deposits in 1904, Mr. Olds received a wire from a group of his fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus became the founding-president of Reo Motor Car Co. Olds Motor Works was later one of the original divisions of William Crapo Durant's General Motors, but Mr. Olds and Reo have been stoutly independent for 30 years. Last week the white-crested old motorman, who has been inactive...
Near Aurora, Ill. L. W. Talbot, driving a truckload of piglets to the Chicago stockyards, had to stop when the road was blanketed by a cloud of smoke from peat fires. Behind him came another truckload of pigs driven by Ellis Johnson, who drove into the smoke, smashed into the rear of Talbot's truck. Behind Johnson came a string of five automobiles. One by one they disappeared in the smoke cloud, each ramming the car ahead. Eighth in line was Elmer Reiser who, suspecting a holdup, swung into the left lane and sped ahead. He smashed into...
...Italian Gothic Architecture," Professor Peat, Fogg Small Room...
...Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season...
...tape. It was partly due to the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Five years ago a Los Angeles hurdler named Kelly, practicing on a disused trotting track near Los Angeles, found the surface particularly fast and springy. Los Angeles contractors said the track was made of peat. The Olympic Committee used crushed peat (taken from Baldwin Hills where is the Olympic Village) for the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Six footraces last week proved that it was the fastest track in the world...