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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Chicago, Aug. 21-wHEAT-Closew wheat !:
Sept, S2.10.
6ORN-Sept., S10s4s@%; May. s1O7.
OATS-Sept, 52Ac; Dec, 53Hc; May,
PORK-sept., s43.45; Oct, S43.15
LARD-Sept, $2310: Oct, $500; JAN,
SHORT RIBs-sept., s2s.72; Oct. s2a7o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

butchers, $19.O0@19-s0; light, $1s.5O@19.4O
cATTLEwReceipts $4,000. including 800
southerns. Market steady. Prime fed
steers, $14;oo@14Go; dressed beef steers,
Southern steers, s7.oo@I1. a5; cows, s5.75G
$50; heifers, s7;50@12.5o; stockers and
feeders. $e5o@12.o0; bulls, $e.25@s.oo;
sHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market 25c
higher. Lambs, $15.25@16.25; yearlings,
SO :oo@d2oo; wethers- ssoo@11:0o; .egSs,
1850.
receipts were 10000 head today. market 10c
to 2oc lower, more in some cases, nothing
prime included, Hog receipts were. 5000
cluded, best here 1920, but good hogs
weighing above 225 lbs: would go at $3.50.
Sheep supply vas 2ooe market mar 2Sc Lover a;
at the top, $1575.
Weakness set in last Thursday at noon
on all kinds except prime finished cattle,
which are scarce, and would sell today
about as high as any time. An outside
ers, willing to pay s13, but the best he
WHICH he paid s95 steady yin = last last
some heavy cows at SS.75, were called SOC
lower than last week The best pasture
grades of weighty' grass steers sold down
to 50, light Oklahomas to 81: These cattle
are Soc to 75c lower than best time last
week. Idaho killing s.eers weight 800 to
94s lbs, at $3.50. Oregon steers at $11.25
to $3.50. Chicago had 10000 today, with
expectations of only 10000, st. Louis r.
500 st. Joseph 1900, too many for the
capacity at their market Heavy declines
are reported from each of these markets.
SUCKERS AND FEEDERS
Prices declined soc after Tuesday last
week, and quit somewhat lower than end
of previous week. The market is 10c to 25c
lower today, and this week should prove
a good time to buy. Stock steers range
from $675 to $500, feeders $3.50 to $1,000,
fleshy steers for feeding much easier to
get away from the packers than heretofore,
Top hogs sold at 1920 today, as com
pared with a top Of $17-35 one week ago.
At that, the top price today did not repre-
sent the real market, for good hogs would
have brought $19.4O, more than two dol
SOC higher today, and there seems to be no
stopping it till 1t runs past zoe pound
some little distance Demand for pork for
soldiers at the front, puts no restrictions
on the prices. Aside from the small re-
ceipts, quality is lacking and weights are
light to an extent that is alarming. in view
of probable future requirements for pork
products
SHEEP AND LAMBS.
The market has declined materially from
the high point last Wednesday, when $1675
was paid for choice Colorado lambs, sale
the lambs weighed only 81 lbs, and were
not choice by several points. Natives sold
at Sizes today, good fat ewes worth around
SO. Breeding ewes are worth S1Z to $l4,
few head of black face ewes to a trader
today at SIS, three years old and under.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
WEATHER TABLE.

Furnished by the weather bureau office
Topeka,-Kan., for the twenty -four hours
ending at a. IN. Tuesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
NEEDS REINFORCEMENTs.
Germany Is Sending Troops From Ga
Hcia Back to Flanders.

Amsterdam. Aug. 20.-A frontier
telegram to the Echo Beige says nu-
merous troops are arriving in F'lan-
ders from Galicia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
GREATEST DRIVE


(ContinUed from .'aEe Onel
Today the French are attacking the
southern pivot where the German line
hinge on their famous Meuse retreat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

The usual irregular changes accompanied
today's early dealings in the stock market.
rails, however, showing some relaxation
from recent pressure, altho New Haven fell
half to a point to the new minimum of 80.
Oils and shippings were the strongest feat
ures, Mexican petroleum gainging points
with ~ each for Texas company and At
lantic gulf and West Indies. Bethlehem
and crucible steels and New York airbrake
yielded from fractions to a point, but U.
s steel was steadier with coppers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans, Aug. 21-COTTON-Spot
cotton firm and unchanged. Middling,
$1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Shorn lambs and sheep &c under above
prices. Positively cannot use sheep or
lambs unless fat
Topeka Hay Market
FURNISHED by T. .A.sBeck. 212-214 b. 6th.s
Topeka. Kan, Aug. u.
PRAIRIE HAY-S1S.00.
AJ.EALFA-S1s00.
Retail HAY.
Furnished By w. A. Gilchrtst. 626 Quincy
Street,
Topeka, Kan, Aug. n.
PRAIRIE HAY-s150o.
ALFALFA-S20.o0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Kansas City. Aug. 21.-BUTTER. EGGS
AND POULTRY-Market unchanged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21
GERMANS THROWN BACK.

Haig Reports Enemy's Most Powerful
Counter Near Epehy Fails.
London, Aug. 21.-The third and
most powerful of all German counter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Wall ST., New York, Aug. 21.-STOCKS-
Prices reacted all around later on heavy
selling of steels and rails. Bethlehem
steel new stock. made an extreme decline Of
Az points and crucible and Lackawanna
steels, republic iron and pressed steel car,
to points, United States steel also los
ing a point, New Haven established a
new minimum of 30A and Delaware and
Hudson also sold at its lowest quotation
of 101k. Shippings and bills virtually
surrendered ali gains, with general I'M
settlement at noon. Liberty bonds sold at
99SS to 1886
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

New York Sugar Market
New York, Aug. H-SUGAR-Raw sugar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Topeka Grain Market.
(Furnished by j, B. Billiard, corner Kansas
Ave. and Curtis ST.
Topeka, Kan, Aug. 81.
CORN-S1.S0
OATS-55@60c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Poultry and EgEA
FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Com
pany. corner Laurent and Madison-)
Topeka, Kan, Aug. n.
HENs-315 lbs. and over, 1515c; under 81
lbs 121zc; springs over lbs, 1Sc; ROSTERS.
lie; shaggy young ROSTERS. 13c; DroilerA
lbs. and under. zoe.
EGGS-29c.
Eggs are retailing IN Topeka NJ4Qooc
BUTTER-1645c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-21

Chicago Grain and Pork Market
(The range of prices on grain futures on
the Chicago Board of Trade as reported
by the Topeka Board of Trade)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

poyes and the better grade of automobile merchants do long
tolerate ticke1s when they found In fact the type
salesman employed often the best index of the whole layout
and far toward making his mind about the
and the house by studying the salesman who him.
automobile dealers realize that after ALL their business
different from other folks business and that the ordinary
rules of trade apply naturally their line does all
others they will be able drop lame and hatng They
will then make agreements that only the specifications
delivery date and with the addition of the simple
be satisfied that other lines of business have
found practicable and efficient
The principle that grow in the automobile bust
along faster than has for with increased
competition which promised after development
those will which tied the right principle
The motoring public be served by fair and simple contracts
backed by fair and simple guarantees
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
The Male of the Species

A fool there was. and he made deal
Even as you and -
For a rubber rag and hank OF steel
We called il a Tub with a steering
wheel, L;,.
Rut the Fool called it an Automobile
Even as you and u.
nh the toll we waste and the oil we
waste 50,
And the work of our blistered hand
Js snent on a motor that would not go,
(And now we know that 1t never could
And we did not understand.
A Fool there was, and his goods he
spent
.Et'en as you and u
IN wreck with a motor that never
went
And body with many a yawning
dent
But Fool must follow his natural bent
Even as you and u.
Oh. the gears we stripped, and the
tubes we nipped,
And the excellent trips we planned
FOR the sake OF Lne "oihah ""N
know why
Who ragged as she waited, and time
went by,
And did not understand.
The Fool was stripped Of his foolish
hide
Even as you and u
When he came to explain that they
couldn't ride,
And the lady daintily cast him aside,
So some of him lived, but the most OF
him died
Even as you and -.
Il isn't the shame, end it isn't the
blame
That sting like white-hot brand;
It's the coming to know for what we
fell,
While the crook who stung us laughed
like hell,
And we did not understand.
Automobile Topics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
WHY AUTOMOBILE
PRICES ARE HIGHER

Asbestos, which is used in brake lin
ines has advanced from $3.50 a ton
TO $1,000 a ton. This mineral comes
from Canadian mines and the British
government has first call upon the
supply. Only about 25 per cent of the
total mine output is OF the long fibre
variety suitable for spinning yarn.
The Canadian government also requires
all producers of asbestos TO get a
signed statement from all customers
TO whom they sell Canadian asbestos
that the same shall not be exported to
the enemies countries.
The following advances over 1915
prices show the increased cost of man
ufacturing automobiles and parts:
Steel for stsmpings, IFS per cent; cap
screws, i76 per cent; pig iron. 25 per
cent; cold rolled steel, $50 per cent;
nickel steel, 80 per cent; steam coal
452 per cent; malleable iron casting,
80 per cent; Rex "A tool steel, 45S
per cent; fuel oil. 90 per cent; 6-inch
betting, so per cent, and chemicals have
advanced from 300 TO 500 per cent over
the high prices of year ago.-Timken
Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
SERVICE IS
'FOR LIFE"
New Plan for Motor
Trucks Offered by
Taylor
CHARGES COST ONLY
TO CUSTOMER
Unusual Scheme Outlined
for Handling of
New Line

In nearly every motor vehicle trans
action the name or pledge of Service"
is used. Buyers of automobiles or
motor trucks know what that usually
amounts to when the question of in
depreciation comes up. II is interest
ing, therefore, TO note a service policy
just announced by a motor truck
dealer who has been in business in
this city for some years.
His new plan is TO limit his service
on any truck he sells only by the life
of the vehicle and to charge the GUS
toner for parts or repairs solely the
actual cost of the work or materials
He has, in other words, abandoned the
idea that many sellers of automobiles
have, which is TO make money out Of
the service end. He announces that
he expects TO make his money out of
selling the trucks and has no idea Of
doing any petty grating on repairs
or the sale of parts" to his customers.
IL is not difficult TO see how this
may be accomplished, when the inten-
ton is to return TO each customer at
regular intervals, from the original
charges made 20 him. that part to
which the balancing of the cost sheets
shows he is entitled. Where any
dealer enters into business with the
idea of selling service, not giving IL
away, and charging only for it what il
costs him. the customer is apt TO be
best satisfied.
No man working on a short term
contract, or without the cooperation
of the factory making the truck or
motor vehicle, can hope to accomplish
such a plan. This truck dealer, who
is X. +. Taylor, of the r. +. Taylor
Corporation. announces he has en-
tered in a twenty-year contract with
the Gramm- Bernstein Company, who
make a truck of that name. for terri
tory which includes the New England
and Middle Atlantic States and the
District of Columbia. This is. as far
as can be learned, the longest term
contract ever entered into by an auto
mobile dealer with factory. Mr.. Tay-
Tor reports that in his plan he has
the support of Messrs. Gramm and
Bernstein.
81 do not want to make a single
cent out of the service end of my
business" he says. 81 think il but
fair that the man who buys so costly
piece of machinery should have 1t
cared for properly by me, year after
year. | want that man to be my friend
and trust me. | cannot expect con-
fdence unless | in turn show myself
friendly and square with him. shall
make abundant income for my bust
ness from the sales of motor trucks
and shall not need TO do any petty
grating OH repairs or the sale of parts
to my friends"
The contract for the sale Of Gramm-
Bernstein trucks has just been en-
tered into by MIR. Taylor. He for
merlv handled another line. The Of
fees of the company are at 1857 Broad
way. The trucks are made in !, Ia.
., 214, 81. ) and ton capacities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

teakettle and dishrag method must be
resorted to. Wrap the cloth around
the carburetor so that it does not cover
the air intake and pour the boiling
water on the rag, taking care that none
gets in the air intake. The hot water
will heat the carburetor and intake
pipe and raise the temperature of the
mixture 50 that the engine will run.
Ia some cases il may be necessary
even to drain out the cooling system
and fill il With hot water, so that the
combustion chamber is heated up.
As the weather becomes colder it
will be found necessary, no doubt, to
close up the radiator more and more in
order to keep the engine at the re-
quired temperature. High engine tenn
perature, up to the point where the
, water in the cooling system begins to
boil. is desirable from the standpoint
of efficiency, and if no trouble is OK
perienced with irregular running, the
hotter the engine is the larger amount
of power is developed.
One manufacturer has incorporated
in the radiator a shutterlike device, by
means of which the amount of air ad-
mitted may be regulated from the driv-
er's seat Doubtless others will fol-
low, or find an equally good substitute
Radiator covers TO fit almost any car
now made may be procured at trifing
expense; one may simply put piece Of
cardboard over it. | was out without q
cover recently, and the engine did not
work right, so | stopped when | came
TO newsboy and bought a paper and
tied il over the radiator. | got home
all right with this device.
One of our men complained the
other day that his car would start out
fine and run all right as long as he
was going away from home, but as soon
rs he turned homeward il would begin
TO act up. He wanted 10 know if !
thought the car had the wanderlust. In
quiry developed the fact that the trips
he spoke of. on the going trip were
with the wind, and, returning. were
against it, The added force OF the wind
over the engine cooled the engine too
much, and he was advised 10 cover the
radiator under such circumstances. He
has reported no trouble since
or course, sometimes, the skipping
may be overcome by enriching the
mixture by the dash control, but with
the present heavy gasolene the enriched
mixture does not seem 10 do much
good. and il is simply adding TO the
supply of gasolene, which already is re-
fusing TO vaporize Therefore it seems
10 be the "stove" and the dishrag for
the cold engine. II. G. BROkAW.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
NEWARK SHOW LATER;
TWO FOR BROOKLYN

Owing to an order from the United
States War Department to the LIST
Regiment, of Newark. requiring Fed
eral inspection of the regiment. the
Newark Auto Show in the armory has
been postponed enc week. The new
date is the week of February 24-Msrch
3. The arrangements as originally
made will stand.
Brooklyn is 20 stage the first COM
mercial vehicle show held in this
vicinity since 1912. This was decided
Yesterday by the Brooklyn Motor
Vehicle Dealers Association. which an
nounced several months ago that their
sixth annual motor car exhibition was
20 be held in the 23d Regiment Arm
DRY. February "a TO March 3. The
commercial exhibition will follow the
display of pleasure vehicles, and has
been designated as part two of the
Brooklyn show Part one will De given
over exclusively TO passenger cars. Al
the part two section chassis, truck
bodies. accessories, parts, etc, will be
displayed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

"hot air furnace" supplies the extra
amount OF heat.
A great many carburetors have the
mixing chamber er-jackcted. and
the water from the cooling system is
circulated through it, supplying some
heat in that way. Sometimes that in
itself is sufficient, but at present il
seems advisable 70 use both. Neither
one of these is in operation when the
cEgine is started; the "hot air fur
mace" depends upon the exhaust pipe
being heated and the water jacket upon
the engine itself being heated long
enough to warm up the circulating
water. So that it becomes necessary
to find some means to supply heat until
these warm up.
When the car is started in a warm
garage the gasolene will properly
vaporize and the engine run in good
shape, but as soon as the car goes out
into the cold air it will cool the en-
CINE so that some of the gasolene will
be condensed. Therefore we close the
radiator cover partly or wholly until
the engine is thoroughly warmed. IL
the car is started in a cold garage the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Horses Out of Yellowstone

Arrangements are being made to sell
1000 horses which heretofore have
drawn touring stage coaches through
Yellowstone National Park for use in
European armies. Their places will
be taken by automobiles. The change
will remove one Of the picturesque
features OF the Yellowstone tour, but
at the same time will facilitate the
trip through Geyserland. The change
is made at an opportune time from a
pecuniary viewpoint, as the horses
that will go to the European fighting
governments will bring highest prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

A watch type Of tire pressure indi-
eating instrument registers any pres
sure from zero to.120 pounds. II can
no carried easily in the ordinary pocket.
II IL hacked in a wooden box TO protect
the glass face when the gauge is to be
carried in the toolbox. The hand reset
is by means of a pin at the side OF the
gauge. II lists at sl.25.
An auto Jack having handle control
when in use has the jack on 5o-lnen
handle. and is thus pushed under the
car. For raising, the handle is pushed
ALI the vay into the socket, while for
lowering it is pulled back in it's socket.
A spring catch holds it in either posi-
ton while operating. This jack is
made in capacities from 800 TO 5000
hounds. The handle is. of course, de-
tachable. II sells for $3.50 to 50.
A new auto signal is for use on the
rear of all makes of car. This signal is
fitted to the tail light and license num-
Der bracket, the operating part consist
ing of a semaphore arm operated when
the brake pedal Is pressed by, the
driver The arm carries vertical band
near its end and the word stop" both
band and word being a conspicuous
color It drops out OF sight when the
car is again under, way. At night tn the
signal is electrically illuminated. The
price is $3.50.
For Ford owners is corrugated tilt
ing steering wheel with a malleable
spider finished in black enamel and
having a diameter of II inches. IL is
interchangeable with the regulation
Ford equipment, the spider being ma
chned to fit the standard steering col
umn. II lists at $3.50.
An instrument which records cylinder
compression under running conditions
and enables the user to locate any weak
cylinders and verify repairs, etc, IS
fitted with special cards graduated IN
pounds Of compression and with rulings
for six cylinders, pointer attached TO
the piston within the instrument mark
ing on the cards. BY means OF suita-
BILE formula the horsepower of each cyl
inder can be computed from the car
records.
For tire trouble is a vulcanizer which
patches inner tubes in less than five
minutes. The outfit consists of a clamp
with screw tension, having a foot or
: carrier on the lower end and a pad with
recess on the upper end. In this pad is
placed a chemically prepared disk which
when lighted gives the right amount Of
heat for vulcanizing. The heat is di-
rected on the patch only, not the flame.
/ The vulcanizer outfit includes six
patches - as many OF the chemically
prepared disks. This sells for 81.
Quick detachable wire wheels to fit
a number Of standard makes of car are
| slid over the axle spindles and rotated
a quarter turn so that Tugs on the in
| side walls of the hub shell back into
their proper places behind Tugs on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
WOULD MAKE CAR
OWNERS FILE BOND

The legislators never weary oil
proposing measures to separate lhe
motorists from their money. A Dill
was introduced last week at Albany
providing that an owner when ne
registers his car shall file bond Tor
$1,000 unless he carries liability IN
surance to that amount.
one estimator has figured out this
would mean 100000 car owners pay
ing anywhere from $3.50 TO $3.50
premiums for such insurance or
bond, which wouldn't hurt the in
surance companies feelings.
Most prudent owners do carry
liability insurance, but 10 make II
mandatory for motorists, when
horse drivers need not, looks a wee
bit like class legislation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
TRAP CATCHES NEW
JERSEY MOTORISTS
State Inspectors Get Many Using
Home Licenses Too Long
in This State

Violations of the automobile reet
procity act between this state and New
Jersey netted thousands Of dollars %
New York in the last year A report
of the automobile inspectors filed with
Secretary of State Hugo indicates the
work done by that small number OK
men between March and Noyembes
1916.
Out of total OF $685. which II:
four automobile inspectors employees
in the metropolitan district turned "a
to the state as the result of their alert:
ness at the ferry landings, owners OK
New Jersey cars contributed S5O'S'e
Under the reciprocity act, New Jersey
automobiles can enter the state TOT
total of fifteen days under their oNa
license plates. After that New TOT.
State license has 10 be taken out
card index system maintained IN me
New York Office OF the state suiomo'
bile bureau keeps track Of all cars s
they daily cross the ferry. The ices
collected were for New York Licenses.
This was indeed reciprocity for
Jersey inspectors are always active
against New York motorists who e"
coed the fifteen-day limit IL Is 81
ABSURD SITUATION DetNetH iNv
boring states, but New Jersey Wits
to be so, and therefore is being &C.
commodated. Before last year Nes
York was not as active against New
Jersey motorists as the Jerseymen "e'
against New Workers.
Among the more common violstohs
of the motor vehicle law detected "
the inspectors are the use Of deslss
plates on owners passenger cars; tn'
use Of self-manufactured plates; dns,,
ing a car with single plate attsehe'
and perhaps using the mate on 81
other machine; driving for hire VIZ.
out a chauHeur's license; the shiiuA
of license plates from one machine
another. and the habit formed by msnl
OF using commercial vehicles for ples'
ure on Sundays and holidays.
There was one case found last SUN
mer where the 1915 numerals had oees
painted out and those Of the presee'
year substituted on a plate by a bru'-.
There were several cases found whs's
paper license plates OF exactly Ws
same color as the regulation ones we's
being used