Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — AUTOMOBILES ARE CHEAPER; GASOLINE ALSO GOES DOWN. [ARTICLE]

AUTOMOBILES ARE CHEAPER; GASOLINE ALSO GOES DOWN.

Standard Five-Passenger Cars to Sell For $l5O and Gasoline to Sell for 6 Cents a Gallon. Special to the Evening Republican. New York, April I—Automobile manufacturers here have failed to come to an agreement in the matter of price adjustment and war was declared. One large manufacturer announced that beginning with today the price of all 5-passenger automobiles, fully equipped with glass front, tops, electric lights, etc., would be $l5O. Some of the other manufacturers say that they will cut even below that figure. A telegram was read from John D. Rockefeller stating that he had determined to cut the price of gasoline down to 6 cents per gallon and would instruct aU his agents to make deliveries at 5 cents and to pledge retailers not to sell it at greater than a cent profit. This order to take effect at once. / Automobiles will now be within the leach of all. '