Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — Drive Through From Ft. Wayne. [ARTICLE]

Drive Through From Ft. Wayne.

Dr. J. H. Hansson, the local Overland automobile agent, accompanied by B. F. Barnes, Andrew Kahler, Fred Popp and John Rusk, who had accompanied him to the Overland factory at Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday afternoon, returning home about 10 o’clock Thursday night, in a fine new 5-passenger Overland, which Mr. Kahler purchased. The visitors were all given free entertainment from Logansport on, and were the guests of the Overland automobile factory at Toledo, w’here they were shown through the entire plant ani feted and feasted. Several hundred automobile agents from Indiana, v ith prospective purchasers, all went to Toledo and were guests of the factory there Wednesday. They left Toledo Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, driving several hundred new cars out from the factory. The agents from this section of the state at Logansport where they all went together to Toledo, being furnished free berths in the Pullman sleeper by the automobile company, it was a big advertisement for the Overland people, and a large number of cars were sold as a result.

Dr. Hansson and his party returned via Ft. Wayne, Rochester and Winamac, a distance of 270 miles, and had no trouble with the car whatever on this long trip, which was very much enjoyed by all.