Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — On Its Reputation. [ARTICLE]

On Its Reputation.

You know that little automobile that everybody has “a new one” about? Well, here’s another they’re passing around: A fellow wished to buy one. He couldn’t wait to get it from the local agent, so he went to the factory at Detroit and asked the man to sell him one. ‘‘All right,” said the ! man. “Sit down and I’ll run out into the factory and have them assemble one. It’ll only take a minute.” So, out into the factory he went and in less than a minute was back agaih with a brand-new machine. The customer passed over his check, climbed in the car and was gone. When he was about twenty miles Out of Detroit the machine suddenly stopped. The new owner got out, lifted the hood, and, to his surprise, found there was no engine in it. “Well, I’ll be darned,’* he said, with a half-sore chuckle, “he ain’t put no engine in it and it’s run twenty miles on nothin’ but its reputation.”