Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — Says He Didn’t Swear a Bit. [ARTICLE]

Says He Didn’t Swear a Bit.

Photographer Parker has run across one of the early horrors of the automobile luxury—in other words his “joy wagon” has struck the slough of despond, or to be more exact if not better understood, a bolt from the cross head has been jambed thru the crank case. Some people not versed in automology may not Know what this is, but it is something dreadful and cost about SSO and a lot of wicked language to get it The mis fortune occurred near Alf Don nelly’s farm, north of town, about 5 o’clock Tuesday evening, when Harry and Christy Vick were re turning from a squirrel hunt, and things were going along all smooth when, without a minute's warning there was a “bang” sound in its “innards” and pieces of iron flew all over the new electric road’s right-ofway. A friendly auto owner from town towed in the disabled machine, and Harry has made arrangements to walk for the next month or so.