Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — Still Everybody Wants One. [ARTICLE]
Still Everybody Wants One.
A. clear definition of the motor car is given in Collier’s thus: The automobile is a large iron and rubber contrivance for • transforming gasoline into speed, luxury, excitement and obituaries. It consists of a handsome upholstered carriage bed, mounted on fat rubber tired wheels, and containing a gizzard full of machinery suffering from various ailments. It is the speediest and most styflish form of transportation known. It'has run \l5O miles in an* hour and cost SI,OOO a minute. It can transport seveq people from the front to the police station, the bankruptcy court Or the golden gates in less jtime than any other method.
