The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-26

z and parts for every make sold II
Z Moscow.
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Auto Electric is Busy.
Z The Auto Electric Supply company
opposite the post office on Third
street, reports the best weeks bust
ness since the shop was opened. The
quality of work turned out there is
bringing patronage from other towns
Z which have no such a shop as this
one, which fills long-felt want" in
the Palouse country.
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John Weber Works Overtime.
With the opening of the automobile
season the tire repair and retread
shop of John Weber, corner Fifth and
Main streets, is working overtime to
keep up with increasing business.
Mr. Weber has been doing big bust
ness in retreads in addition to all
kinds of tire and tube repairing.
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Globe Tire Shop Rustling.
The new Globe Tire Shop, on South
Main street, near Sixth street, is do
ing a big business. This firm has
one of the best equipped tire shops
to be found outside of the big cities
and can do any kind of work that is
needed. No need to send off to Spo-
kane for any tire work with the
splendid workmen employed in Mos.
COW in this line of work.
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Motor Party Visits Moscow.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Wyman of Yak
ina, Wash, accompanied by Judge
and Mrs. Van Fleet and Mr. Ray Dur
ham, visited NJ B. Dallas, Dodge
Brothers dealer, yesterday. Mr.. Wy
man and party are motoring from
Yakima to Spokane, visiting the
Truck and Tractor Show at Walla
Walla, and making swing through
the Moscow country inspecting the
winter wheat. Mr.. Wyman drove a
Cole "Aero" eight, which car, as we'll
as the Dodge, which he sells at Yak
ina The party were unanimous in
the praise of the Moscow country,
the city of Moscow and the Univer-
sity of Idaho.
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Model Garage is Rushed.
eve are doing more than three
times as much business as we expect
ed when we opened the Model Gar
age,' said Ed. Cruver, proprietor and
who has several assistants
at work in the garage where he is t
1oing a lot of repair work. Mr. {
Jruver went to Colfax yesterday ev- '
ening to tow big car to Moscow for +
repair. Speaking of good roads he V
said: cit took me longer to come s
rom Pullman to Moscow, distance {
# nine miles than it did from Colfax C
o Pullman, distance of 10 miles. n
We made 27 miles an hour with the
owed car on the fine highway be- T
ween Colfax and Pullman and it
ulled easy, but it was a fright get
ing from Pullman to Moscow over
he rough, cut up and muddy dirt II
oad." The Model Garage is located tt
I the Stewart building, on north W
lain street, opposite the Idaho hotel, s.
nd carries the Overland and Willeys- W
night cars.
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The Liberty Motor Crankcase. m
Lightness was one of the prime es- Ell
entails considered in designing the al
liberty motor and it was most admir- dl
ply worked out by the men to whom
lie task was entrusted. And this light g
sss, coupled with the Valve-in-Head Ell
'inciple of design, made the Liberty
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il airplane motor in relation to it's 1
eight that the world had ever seen.
One of the \triumphs of the motor
II industry is the manner in which
otor car designers have delved into
e complexities of metallurgy and Sc
cted those materials for various
lrts that combined the attributes of |
,htness and strength
This y111o moc followed II, tho T.ib
ty motor, and the crankcase was one
the parts where the designers prof
ID by this metallurgical research {
ork
First of ALL a crankcase must be
rong. 1t is the foundation on which
e cylinders are anchored, and as it
so supports the crankshaft it re-
ives the force of every push of the
3tons. A perfectly satisfactory
ankcase, as ia ras strength is con-
as far as strength is con-
eel. But for motor car or airplane
rposes, the weight of such a crank
Sc is excessive, although cast iron
ankcases are by no means uncom-
N on motor cars.
Years ago, Buick engineers and oth-II
desigenrs turned to aluminium, but
was found that aluminium alone did
possess sufficient strength, al
,ugh it did have the desirable light
is. The metallurgists finally de-
oped a formula containing other
tails and alloys that was not only
nost as light as aluminium, but
nbined with that lightness ample II 4
ength and toughness to make it
al for crankcase use. -