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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 16, 1917.
PRICE OF HARMON
UP FIVE HUNDRED
Factory Announces Big Baise
Because of the Increase
-., 'in Cost of All Ma-
Announcement lias recently been
made by the Nordyke & Marmon
company of an advance of $300 in the
price' of all models.
This advance will take effect "al
most immediately," asserts H. Pel
ton. Marmon distributor. "We have
a load of Marmons on the road sow,
which were purchased at the old price,
and of course we shall allow purchas
ers the advantage of the present prices
on these, tut after that Marmons cost
$500 more.
"There is very little we can say re
garding the advance in price except
that it ' was necessary in order to
maintain the present quality of Mar;
mon products. Nearly everyone who
is interested in the purchase of a mo
tor car is familiar with the material
situation. Prices have advanced more
than 300 per-cent on some articles
and it is a tribute to American manu
facturers to keep prices as low as they
have."
Small Repair Bills for This Car
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- Packard Closed Models
t Are Very Distingue
The approach of autumn is heralded
to the motorist not so much by the
turning of foliage to rich colors, as
bv the chillish wind that calls for
wraps on the evening's ride, which
has become an institution with him.
And he thinks of the enclosed car.
In the third series line of Packard
Twin Sixes there are ten styles of
enclosed carriages'.
Women who have learned to pre
side at the steering wheel show a
marked fondness for the modish
cftupe on the shorter chassis, Pro
fessional men, especially physicians,
also like" the coupe. : . -
The transportation demands,; of
formal and informal social usage are
met by the limousine, imperial limou
sinethe imperial has fully enclosed
driver'! compartment and the lan
daulet. - " "'' '
The brougham for seven passengers
combines the roominess of the large
eaoacity car 'with the friendly atmo-
sphere of the car for smaller parties
and permits the owner-driver to be
companionably one of the party. There
is'no partition: and there are indi
vidual front seats with an aisle be
tween. '; V -
A very srnart carriage, new to the
Packard line, is the brougham for six.
The top is somewhat ldwer than
otner enclosed cars ana is tne very
latest style in straight-line roof ef
fects." " ' V "
The landaulet Js the choice of many
wno desire in one vehicle the advan
tages of an open car and an enclosed
carriage. The adjustable rear quarter
of the landaulet may be thrown open
in pleasant weather. ,
All types of. Packard enclosed cars,
except coupe and six-passenger
brougham, may be had in two lengths
of wheelbase.
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Allies Waive Boxer r ; V CI
Payment for, Five Years
Peking, Monday, Sept. 10. tDe
Jayed.) Ministers of the entente pow.
ers at Peking have advised the Chi
nese foreign office that their govern
ments are willing to waive the Boxer
indemnity payments for five years.
Russia waives only one-third bf'the
first portion of the indemnity, requir
ing the remainder because of its finan
cial straits. ' ' ... . .
The United States, It ts said, prob
ably, will "ratify the action of the en
tente natiom, but will not1 waive its
portion of the Boxer indemnity!,
which Is necessary to maintain the
Chinese students in America. hs
A rather unusual record has been
"hung up" by the Pierce Arrow
shown in the above picture, which has
to- its credit a mileage of 146,000. It
also bears the distinction of being a
"blase" traveler, acquainted with the
dust and snow of the southern and
middle states, California and Florida
included. '
The car was purchased in 1910 from
the Omaha agency by C. H. Morrill, a
banker at Stromburg, Neb., and in
May, 1917, it received its first over
hauling in the shop of , the J. T. Stew
art Motor company. .'
kept an approxi-
Food Shipments to
, Canada; Must Be Licensed
Washington, Sept. IS. Shipments
of wheat whet 'flour, butter and
sugr to Canada and Newfoundland
herafter will be permitted only un
der the same form of license neces
sary for their export to other coun
tries, according to a new ruling of the
exports administrative board. The
new requirement, it is understood, is
not intended as a step to restrict ex
ports to Canada. Shipments in small
lots, under certain conditions,
excepted from the order. - . "
are
Threaded Rubber Keeps
. .Battery Long On Job
Discussing, the new battery
equipped with threaded rubber insu
lation, which was recently announced
by the Willard Storage Battery com
pany, after having been in use on
35,000 cars for over two yearr, Elmer
Roscngren, the Willard representative
in this city, told an interesting story
of the performance of one of these
batteries in South America.
i. "We recently got wbrd from the
home office." said Mr. Rosenjrren,
"that a Willard battery with a thread-
eo ruDDer. msuianon ' was soio in
Georgetown, British Guiana, where
the extreme heat usually limits the
life of wood separator batteries to
year or less. This battery went into
service the firs: of Ucetober, ma,
About August 1 of this year the
dealer who sold the car wrote in to
the Willard factory to say that after
twenty-two months of hard service
the threaded rubber insulation bat
tery was still on the job.
"During all this time it has been
given onjy a few minutes' attention
a week that is, filled with distilled
water and specific gravity taken with
the hydrometer. Climatic conditions
made frequent filling with water
necessary.
Merely as i matter ot orecaution.
the owner had the battery taken oft,
washed out with clean water and re
filled, and the battery went back into
service good apparently for another
long period of active j work."
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Elgin Closed Car to Be
Yr :,v Ready for Sale Soon
Frank P. Cavanagh of the Motor
company, distributors for the Elgin
Six, states that the Elgin Motor Car
corporation has added to its, line a
closed car which will be ready for
delivery September 25.
HE WHO RUNS MAY READ
Advertising manager hits on novel
olan to attract motorists
He who has lots of "pep" will eas
ily earn his salt.
.Even t,he postage : stamp can be
licked ifjrou do the Job' behind its
back. ' -
Those who pay cash seldom owe
even an qpology. ...... .
Some people never crack anything,
not even smile.
The steam that blows the whistle
is nothing but hot air.
;' Many a crood ohvsiclan sroea from
bad to worse.
' Early to bed. early to rise, and you
don't, meet many prominent people.
These and hundreds of other
"punch" axioms appear from day to
day on the bulletin boards in front
of the National Refining company's
wnite Kose uasoune service stations,
here in this city.
Motorists as well as pedestrians
look each day , to see what will be
said next.
The idea was originated bv Charles
Archbold, advertising manager,
and replaces the old market price
sign. . . - v ',
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Vfei ; . "AH cars . .
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Puts "Pep in
Battery Performance
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2024 Farnam Street
Phone Douslas 3697
. ' Omaha
Mr. Morrill has
mate check of repair bills and up to
the time of overhauling they had
amounted to $219, which is one-quarter
of a cent per mile This, by the
way, is an unusual record for. repair
hills on a car that has been driven
under all sorts of conditions for seven
years.
It is rather interesting in this con
nection to learn that the same chauf
feur who drove the car from Omaha
in 1910 is on the job today. His
name is Edward Bell.
President Carranza Orders
Restoration of Property
Mexico City, Sept. 15. President
Carranza today ordered that all real
estate belonging to the National Rail
way of Mexico not actually in use by
the government, which is operating
the line, be givfti back to the com
pany. - '
War Tank Aids Army
Recruiting Officers
Recruiting officers in the Chicago
district have been assisted m'erially
in their efforts during tl list few
weeks by a specially constructed
armored car of the tank species. The
tank, a formidable looking object
with heavy guns mounted in genuine
war-time fashion, an American flag
flying from the top and a recruiting
banner on the rear, has attracted in
terest to such an extent that streets
are often blockaded when it pauses
for a moment on a corner. The
pauses are frequent, incidentally, for
the tank is used by recruiting officers
as a platform from which addresses
are delivered. The tank is built over
a Dodge Brothers motor car, the en
tire outfit having been placed at the
disposal of the government officers by
the Dashiell Motor company. Dodge
Brothers dealers in Chicago. Through
an arrangement just made by the De
troit factory, the same tank will ap
pear in many other leading cities of
the country where recruitinar for vari.
ous branches of the service is still in
progress.
Look for Heavy Sales '
Of Stronghold Tires
Announcement was made last week
by the Rubber Products company of
Barbertown, O., to the effect that it
had signed a contract with the Con
sumers penning cornpany ot Omaha
for the distribution of Stronghold
tires. v
The Consumers Refining company
is expected to make an excellent
showing in the matter of sales owing
to the completeness of its organiza
tion in this territory. Most every
garage in this section handles one or
more of the products of the Consum
ers Refining company and if Strong
hold tires can be introduced from all
iiicae siauons a saies record of t
startling nature will be forthcoming.
Quintet, Fifth Nebraska,
With Machine Gun Co.
Top Row, Left to Right Leslie Rupert, Alwyn Amos, Lyle
Hurt Bottom Row, Left to Right Corporal Stevens, man
ager; Glen Sanders, Charles Reeves.
0 These boys sang their way to Lin-
AutO Bandits Raid Village;
Get Seven Thousand Dollars
Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. IS. Six
automobile bandits drove into the
town of Climax, about twelve miles
south of. Battle Creek, early this
morning, cut all the wires, held up
the villagers, blew open the safe at
the State bank and eot awav with
$7,000.
coin and back for Omaha day at the
State fair last week. Thev als6 have
been singing in Omaha and Wednes
day night were the guests of Mrs. A.
S..Williams, Mrs. William G. Fuller
and Miss Bertha Ellingwood at the
home Of Miss Ellingwood, 1848
North Seventeenth street, where they
sang for their hostesses. They will
sing on the way to Deming at ali the
stops.
All Batteries Need
Proper Attention
"Summer usage is not ny rst cure
for batteries," says R. C. Smith of
the Delco-Exide service station. "The
batteries in most cars have beer.
working mighty hard all summer with
very little attention. During tin
height of the motoring season it is
not likely that many cars have spent
much time in the garage; consequently
hundreds of batteries have been for
gotten and will be until they show
signs of trouble.
"Cold mornings will soon be com
ing on. This will require more power
from the battery to start the car.
This demand for additional power will
be too much for batteries that have
been neglected all summer and repair
bills will be the result. However, it
is not yet too late to guard against
these repair bills in many cases if the
much needed attention is given the
batteries now.""
Horse Is Fast Giving
Way to Motor Vehicle
"If you wish to gain an idea of how
rapidly and surely the motor truck
is taking the place of the horse, just
visit a little country town tnat you
are familiar with, but have been away
from a number of years," says C. W
Francis of the C. W. Francis Truck
company. ,
"The other day 1 had occasion to
drop in on a fair-sized town in the in
terior part of the state that I had
not visited since 1912, and one of the
very first things that attracted my at
tention was the absence of the old
hofse-drawn b,utcher cart, the grocery
wagon and the bakery van from the
majn street, which used to be regard
ed as permanent fixtures of the com
munity. The .motor truck and the
automobile were the only vehicles to
be seen on the thoroughfares during
my. few days' stay in the up-state
town."
The universal service given daily by more than tfao million Ford cars
, is the best proof of their all around usefulness. To clinch the matter, just
talk a few minutes with the owner of a Ford car. He won't waste any
time in telling you of the satisfaction and profit it , brings him; of its value
in business and in giving pleasure to his family. '.You'll find him proud of
his car because he knows from experience its positive dependability and its
. sure economy; He i never afraid to put it to any reasonable test, while the
economy in operation and maintenance are no small factors in his pride of
ownership. The more y ou think of it the more will y ou realize that a Ford
car is yournecessity. '".r:;:r,v
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; Runabout;$345; Touring Car 360; Coupelet $05; Town Car $595;
;-f " Sedan $645; One-Ton Truck Chassis $600. These prices f. o. b. Detroit.
Any one of the following Ford dealers will take your
quick delivery and a satisfactory and courteous af to-serviced ,
SAMPLE-HART MOTOR CO., 18th and Burt Sts.
UNIVERSAL MOTOR CO., 2562 Leavenworth St.
NICHOLS-RICE MOTOR CO., 20th and Ames Ave.
McCAFFREY MOTOR CO., 10th and Howard Sts.
: HOLMES-ADKINS CO., 4917 South 24th Street.
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Make the acquaintance of the Ford dealer near you