Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1919 — THERE WAS A MAN [ARTICLE]

THERE WAS A MAN

from our town and he was wondrous wise. He bought a great big heavy car which opened up his eyes (and pocket book). I asked him why he didn’t buy a boat that he couldn’t float; he thought all cars were good as our. He claims, “they smell the '‘ same.” Tain’t. so, at that. No, the Franklin don’t ever smell like the water codler. They “warm up” to the proper degree for vaporizing modern low-grade fuels. Vapor bums clean. Perfect combustion means a clean, cool-running gas engine. The exhaust from a Franklin (pipe removed) is colorless in daylight and a perfect “combustion blue” in the dark. . It is next to impossible to get carburetion so perfect on a watercooled car that the flame is not yellow and sooty. Look to the flame of an open exhaust if you would know where your gas goes to and where your carbon comes from. The Franklin even carries an electric heater to vaporize the gas for cold starting. Benjamin Franklin had his own, ideas about electricity. C 1 H. H. Franklin had his ideas of an ideal car. Both made history.** ‘Tor keeps”—A Franklin.—Hugh Kirk.