Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — What Is An Automobile ? [ARTICLE]

What Is An Automobile ?

A newspaper exchange gives this as a .definition of what an automobile is: “The automobile is a large iron and rubber contrivance for transforming gasoline into speed, luxury, excitement and obituaries. It consists of a handsome leather-upholstered carriage body mounted on fat rubbertired wheels and containing a gizzard full of machinery suffering fron various ailments. It is the speediest and most stylish form of transportation known. It has run over 100 miles an hour and cost SI,OOO a minute. It can transport, seven people from the front porch to the police station, the bankruptcy court or the golden gates in less time than any other known method.”