Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — GOODYEAR TIRES AT ANTE-BELLUM PRICES [ARTICLE]

GOODYEAR TIRES AT ANTE-BELLUM PRICES

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announce “No war prices on Goodyear Tires." Mr. F. A. Sieberllng, president of the Company, thus explains their unique position. • “We advanced Goodyear prices, as others did theirs, when the. rubber panic came. Almost in a day crude rubber rose in New York from 55 cents per pound to much over a dollar. "The New York supply was too small to consider. We cabled our London people to buy up the pick of the rubber there. By acting quickly and paying cash they obtained 1,500,000 pounds of the finest rubber. "That big supply of rubber is now nearly all on the way to the Goodyear factory in Akron. It constitutes the best of the London supply. “We are using the same grade of rubber and the same amount of it as we always have used in these tires “We are running our factory with three shifts of men, twenty-four hours a day. So long as we remain in this fortunate position on rubber, we shall supply tire users at before-war prices to the limit of our capacity ”