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Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
BRAKE TEST MADE
A Quarter of Those Having Poor
 Brakes Have Accidents

4 eheck-up made by the state mo- tor vehicle department of the records of approximately 400 automobiles, the brakes of which were tested by the Hartford police department without warning, shows that twenty-five per cent of those whose cars were found to have defective brakes are on record in the master file of the motor vehicle de- partment for carelessness in operation. On the other hand, about twenty per cent of those whose brakes were re- ported by the Hartford police to be satisfactory, have records in the motor vehicle department. IL is believed that many of the latter class were impress ed by their previous experience and took precautions, such as having their brakes adjusted, to avoid a repetition.
 The Hartford police. in making their tests, took every car that came along, without discrimination. A distance of thirty-seven feet was marked of by white lines on a certain street. The driver of A ear was then instructed to approach the first line al a speed of twenty miles an hour, applying his brake as he reached the line. II he failed to stop the car by the time he reached the next line, his brakes were adjudged defective. An independent test was made for the foot brakes and the emergency brakes. About sixty three per cent of the cars reported as having defective brakes had inadequate emergency brakes. about twenty per cent had poor foot brakes, and approx imately seventeen per cent were found with both sets of brakes defective. Fiftv-two per cent of the cars were owned by Hartford people. In cases where defective brakes were found. the drivers were asked to have them corrected and to return for a furthr { inspection.
 i Commissioner Stoeckel has written Chief Garrett J. Farrell of the Hart ford police department that he be- lieves the brake test did much good.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
WARN RIDERS OF WHEELS
Fewer Collision. Between Motor We
 hicles and Bikes

In the face of a general increase m motor vehicle accidents. there has been a marked decline in collisions between automobiles and bicycles in the frst half of this year. according to the rec ords of the state motor vehicle depart nnent. Up to Tuesday, which closed inc half year period. l37 bicycles nad heen struck by motor vehicles, and all b,, forty of these accidents are record ed as having been due to bieyeiists carelessness. .s automobile collisions with bicycles Tor this year would be nearly thirty per cent less than last years record Ihe decline is believed to be due m part 'e systematic campaign Of education being carried on by the Cycle Trades of America. This organization assign: Geld men to cover certain preseribed routes throughout the country, spend. | inc full week in each city, calling al l schools and giving collective classes ] linStructions in the proper ways of fld' ing bicvcles. and educating the bicycle riders to observe the rules ot ths streets and highways.
 Some of the points emphasized ny these instructors are to warn the cnii dren not to ride in "zig-zag fashion not to mitch on" to other vehicles, mol to carry anyone on the handle-bars, no ,o ride through groups of people get ting on or of of street cars, and t' eouip their bicycles with warning sig nals and with a lamp for use vher riding at night.
 The state motor vehicle departnen ;s giving it's cooperation to the safet! campaign among bicycle riders Ou of 8qe collisions between automobile and bicycles in 1923, 354 were due | inc bicyclists' carelessness and, out o 3sO such accidents last year, careless ness of bicycle riders was held to be re jsponsible for SIS.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

hsdme takeit. rega;ned my strength snd never felt better in my life. It com pIetely restored me to health. l had prsetcally no suffering when my baby boy vas born and he is very strong and healthy. 1 know that the Vegetable Compound is the best medicine a woman can take before and after childbirth for health and strength. Iwould be willing to answer letters from women asking about the Vegetable Compound. = Mrs. WM j. LEE. Route [, Box 64S, Terre Haute. Indiana
 Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is 8 dependable medicine for al these troubles.
 For sale by druggists everywhere.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
Obey Say
THAT

Our boss has a tin Lizzie. Lizzie has wheels This is nothing 10 it's dis credit as most Lizzies have How ever. a realization that the female species Is prone to frills and furbe- lows and proud of wearing an original bit of finery in hopes to make others Of their sex eoyetous is not lacking. In order to satisfy this vanity and pos sibly thinking that Lizzie would work better and not put up as many argu- ments while going over the road. our boss aforesaid invested in a bit of red paint and paid some real money to an artist to scatter the red glohules over the wheels. Subsequently Lizzie came up Main street refieeting a glow like a half dozen setting suns on hot summers night. and causing highpowered class of envy in ali of the other daughters of Mir. Henry parked on Putnam's broadway.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
YANKEE IS STILL
 LEADING INVENTOR
Connecticut Heads the World In Inventive Genius, As Patent
 List Shows
One Explanation Is Manufacturing State

The Connecticut Yankee still leads the world in inventive genius. accord ing to a survey just completed by Mum & Co., Of New York City and Washington. the oldest and largest firm of patent attorneys in the United States. Incidentally, Connecticut leads every other state and territory in the Union in its ratio of inventors to population.
 ''The inventive ability of the Con- necticut Yankee has long been a tra- dition." Mum & Co. state, but here and there has grown ur feeling that this might be nothing more than a tradition-that while 1t may have been true at one time that the sons of Con necticut were Americas most prolific inventors, that such is the fact no longer. In order to find out just what the facts are. Mum & Co. have made a survey. Here is what we have found
 While only one person out of every 100 lives in Connecticut. one patent out of every thirty-two is issued to a per son who lives there.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

u..bington, D. C.. July s, i925.-
 sstieut politics continue a hot s.ser sea5sas standby in Washington as as s's q, home. The report this week =. =. ,bs Rorabaek people want Con sal ssn - Tilson of New Haven to be rsssii.s rss ssrretary of war so that he will s'oe ef Senator Bingham's way next < e'' snnears to be tinted with a meas
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

alton that l could hardly do my work.
 l was tired all the time and dizzy, had no appetite and could not sleep. l tried different medicines for a year but they did not help me.
 Then my husband saw the ad. for Lydia E. Pinkham s Vege- table Compound in the newspapers and
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

Coming out of the post office this gentleman walked directly up to the car of our boss and got in. He tried Go start the works but Lizzie did not recognize the hand of a master. and nothing moved. He started to turn the key that is message to this type of machinery and found the key was not in its place He searched his pockets for a key and the perspira- tion began to flow from under the straw hat
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

St. Joseph's, the church of the Fran eisean Fathers in Los Angeles, advises against the use of wedding marches by Wagner or Mendelssohn. We can says St. Joseph's calendar, "so utterly out of place in the presence of the Saeramental Saviour. in Whom neith- CT of these two men believed, one being an infidel and the other a Jew. Save the organist the embarrassment of re- fusing and yourself the humiliation of being refused"
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

he STUDEBAKER CORPORATION ofAMERcA

Hobson's choice is so called in ai- fusion to the practice of Thomas Hob- son, 1544-1631, of Cambridge. Eng land, who let horses. and required ev- cry customer to take the horse which stood nearest the door.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

ed on did not say anything until the man with the white locks had return cd to statu quo. Then he quietly ask ed few impertinent questions of the gentleman of the absent mind, and sicked d reporter onto the story.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
Why Studebaker is the
 "one. profit car

There are more than 60 makes of passenger cars built in the United Stases. but very few are manufsc- turcd compiete tn the plants of the producers who scii them.
 oniy @ build nii their own motor. and one of the a is Studchakef.
 Of the 47 which claim to make thctr own motors only is make the iron castings. stampinex and fofe tngs which 60 into their motorx- and one of the is Is Studrhakcr.
 Only s make all their own bodies and one oi the 5 ia Stuaebakef.
 Only make all then oNn uao,ors. hosiics, clutches. springs. a1lcs. gear sets. dtfcrentiaia and steering gear. One of these |. StudebskeI and the other is Ford.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

serve transportation. into every car yet keep down the price to you.
 This sound manufacturing principle not only holds down price. but it insufcs a better car regardless of price. The car is not a patchwork. but a unit.
 Last year at the New York and Chicago automobile shows four well known auto mobile manufacturers cx- hihited coaches mounted with the same body--a body made from the identical dies. figs and fixtures. Certainly these manufacturers must have sacrificed engineering advan- tages m chassis construction to accommodate this stand ardized" coach body built by af. sk,tf.tsfss eastsfltrw
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

Then came the revelation. 4 glance at those vermillion wheels that were holding him up disclosed to the gen tleman that he was decidedly in the wrong seat of the wrong car and that his own Lizzie was watching from some distance away trying to under stand il all. and wondering if her more gaily bedecked sister had won her master from her.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
VOz0-a a One-PrOfit Car
 m fife 2uallU EeH

STUDEBAKER has achieved profit manufacture in the o quality field This marks the automobile industry Studebaker achievement eliminates profits running $500 overhead results Tn quantity production of quality 1t vtay affects pricing
 establishing criterion of value in the
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

Basketball was invented in 1881 by James Naismith at the suggestion of Dr. L. H. Gulick, who saw an oppor- tunity to i'll in the time between the football and baseball season with an indoor game.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

The red-geared Tunabout was park cd in front of the post office Tuesday. IL was crowded in between line of several more or less pretentious auto mobiles and Fords. none, however. having black capped red spokes on it's four corners.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

A young man stood looking on and taking it all in He realized what was going on and also that there was to be an awakening and that surprise and a foolish look was soon to be registered. He was not disappoint- cd and as he had his desire to be in on it gratified, he stole quietly away. THAT
 The man who had tried to start our boss's car crawled out from over the
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

A gentleman with hair that once was some color besides grey drove up and parked, nearby. a car of similar make and model but with wheels painted the conventional somber black. He might have been taken for professional man, professor or divine.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17


 profit for the ultimate purchaser pay Each profit which maker pays to body builder parts sup plier enters into his costs just though he had spent the money for steel or plate glass uphol- stery. Although il represents no value he not only passes it on to. the purchaser but figures his own profit on top of ii.
 
 The Ford is a one-pfofit and reigns supreme in it's field.
 In the fine car field Studebaker-and Stude- baker alone-now offers the American public one profit values.
 During the past seven years. when demand eeeded supply, Studebaker has been blowing earn ings back into plants and machinery until we arc now able to make this announcement
 Foundries, stamping mills, machine shops, are now complete. As final links in the cham of one profit production, the enormous Studebakcr body plants have been operating for months at peak capacity Resources totaling one hundred million dollars are concentrated on the production of this one profit
 No other individual manufacturer in the world (eNcept Ford) possesses such facilities for the nletc manufacture of automobiles. That IS why Stakeholder IS able to put finer steel, finer wood, finer upholstery, better work manship. hundreds of thousands of miles of re-
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
.WENTY.FI FIVE

W E N T Y I'VE
 years ago practically | l all manufacturers" ezz=== of automobiles were nothing more than assem- blers. They purchased mo tors, bodies, tops, axlcs, etc, from parts makers who were the manufacturers in reality.
 On this basis it was easy 10 become an automobile manufacturer. and more than five hundred makes of automobiles have had their day in the American market and disappeared. They are represented only by orphan cars" with practically no re- sale value.
 Notwithstanding this writ ing on the wall many manufac- turers still assemble their ..rr.4t.rs ,.slsra ,.rs.Gs ..sxs...
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

ls Asyiur1 Sf Hartford Esf. 1907
 I52 Temple St.. kss Haesn
 No high sounding promises. bu, eon- sstsnt and continuous needed service night and day, eNery~hers In New England and New Jersey.
 Is00 garages. zoo aftorasys at year eaH. No charge beyond asruai fee Of Sgo.
 or1ees n Boston, Portland. Bangor. Manchester, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford. New Haven and Providence. Protect feurssif, Your Wifs and Family
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
THAT

IL is this distinctive feature of the automobile that gives emphasis to the following illustration of absent mind. edneSs.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
History a Factor

While the fact that Connecticut K q manufacturing state is one of the main causes of the ingenuity of its residents. f is not the entire explana- ton. The cause for the inventive gen. jus of the sons of Connecticut seems to lie in Conneetieut's history. The state was built up by sturdy pioneers who found it necessary to couple brain with brawn in order Co wrest a living from the stubborn soil. Ingenuity be- came a deeply ingrained characteristic of the people-a characteristic which has been handed down to father and son to this day and has even been passed on to the natives of foreign countries who go to Connecticut Go make a living.
 Strange as il may seem. 1t is nev- ertheless a fact that foreigner, who, in his home country, ever invented anything, but was content 10 keep on doing things the way his family had been doing them for generations, often is found applying for patent within six months after he has taken up his residence in Connecticut.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
WEAK, RUNDOWN NERVOUS, DIZZY
Mrs. Lee Suffered From All These Troubles, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
 pound Made Her Well

Terre Haute, Indiana. -'l was weak .,s rundown and in such nervous con
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
Manufacturers Enter In

"It has generally been assumed that tine number of inventions in any par the number of manufacturers At first glance this would seem to hold true for the great manufacturing state of Con neeticut. \ more careful study ef the complete data. however. would tend to throw doubt upon this theory. While it is true that Connecticut leads in the ratio of patents ta population and Is d ssate of diversified manufacturers. it also will be seen that the second on the list. the District of Columbia, Is not predominanuy q manufacturing community. nor is California, the third on the list.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
Patent For Every 1os2

For the whole of the United States there was issued last year one patent for every 2,646 persons. Connecticut is thus more than twice as prolific in inventions as the country in general.
 The entire number of patents is sued to residents of the United States last year was 40.520 Patents issued tn residents of Connecticut numbered l.276. Assuming the population of the United States to be l07 7.000. .000 and the population of Connecticut to be 1 .394 .324, Connecticut residents lead in the field of invention on the basis of population $ readily seen.
 Connecticut Is followed in density of inventors by the District of Coium- bia with enc patent issued to every .229 residents, California with one patent to every 1902 residents, New Jersey with one patent to every 1856 residents, and New York with one pat ent 10 every ,503 residents.
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

Contrast this with Studebaker. where the entire car is designed and built a unit-and engineered complete. This construction means CD longer life
 (O greater comfort in riding 3 greater freedom from repair expense-(4) greater resale value.
 With the advent of this one profit one overhead plan of motor manufacture. tt Is folly today to buy car by the same comparisons you used yesterday. Today you must measure aii cars with this one profit" Studebaker.
 one-fourth of all American passenger CUTS built today belong in the fine tied-a total of S7 different makes selling above thousand dollars
 There arc 2i Studchakrr body styles available three different chassis. The Standard Six Models ii3ineh Nheelbase. so h.p. engine, Sli2s to 5000 fob. factory. The Special Six Models. i70.inch wheelhase oS h.p. engine. $i4S0 to s2i20 fob. factory. And the Big Six Models. i17.inch wheel base. 75 hp. engine. Sls7s to S2oso fob. factory.
 And you may buy your S;udehaker today with the assurance that Ii will not be arbitrarily stig- matzed by any act of ours a last year model" Instead of spectacular annual announcements of new yearly models, Stakeholder has adopted the policy o keeping it's cars up date in body styles and chassis design every day in the year. There fore, buy your Sfudebaker noWf
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17

red wheels and climbed into his own black vehicle and drove quietly, for that kind of piece of mechanism, away.
 THAT
 The pleased young man who look
Putnam patriot., 1925-07-17
Dress to Please Yourself

When you are urged to spruce up"-to look your best-don't take it as an insult or a taunt Your friends, who have your best interests at heart, can see what you can't-that you don't look your part. They know your worth, but stranger won't recognize it unless you look it. "Sprucing up" doesn't mean going out and buy ing uncomfortable Sunday" clothes. It means buying clothes which make you feel at ease and comfortable
 Your reliable cothier will be glad to help you choose styles best suited to your type. He is anxious to do his best for you-a well satis- fled customer is his best stock-in-trade. Spruce up-make this y0ur creed
 Dress We'll and Succeed
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-11-15
FROM SUNSET MAGAZINE

The most remarkable financial career of any living American is that of Edward Gardner Lewis. in the last twenty five years he has borrowed, mostly on his per, sonal notes, at least twenty mil lions of dollars from fifty thousand persons, half of them women, most of them persons of small means; In other ways he has raised proh.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-11-15
From Governor to Real Estate Booster

life of 66 years, let us hope that the former Governors de clining years will not become enmeshed in any greater fiascoes than it has been his misfortune to engage in recent years.
 In many ways he is likeable Bone, and now that he is no longer in a position to injure the best interests of Alaska, we all wish him well. Even tho his off, cial acts as Governor brought him into disrepute with the Depart ment of Justice, the Department of the Interior, and with President Coolidge resulting in the appoint ment of his successor four months before Bones tenure of office expired, his departure has paci- fled most of those who were sub ject to his vindictive and destruc tive methods.
 Even Bones critics in the recent Territorial Legislature were will ing that his, chagrin and disappoint- ment be eased thru passage of a resolution of "Godspeed' and well wishes for the future We are all willing to forget and forgive, but the old Governor and his fawning SvcODhantS will not have 1t SO They insist upon keeping him in the limelight, when they we'll know that his record has relegated him to obscurity.
 Now that former Governor Bone has cast his lot with Atascadero, California, it may be interesting to the people of Alaska to know something of that town and of E. G. Lewis, the man who created end ruined it. A we'll known writer, Walter V. Woehlke, has made a close study of all the circum- stances connected with the oper ations of Lewis. He has written four lengthy illustrated articles on the subject, which are being pub lished in the Sunset Magazine. The first appeared in the issue of December. We herewith print a few excerpts from one of MT. Woehlke's articles:
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-11-15
ably fifteen million more.

He has managed to procure these huge sums despite the fact that bankruptcy proceedings against him or his leading enterprises were in itiated three or four times, that the Post Office Department issued fraud orders against him and sev- eral of his undertakings, that he was indicted on numerous charges of fraud.
 The story of E. G. Lewis and his promotions is amazing, incredi ble; it sounds like the hectic dream of pathological imagination. One looks at his career, then rubs ones eyes and declares that it can't be true. One can't believe that this smallish man with his long-winded letters and circulars, with the tricks and methods and the phras. eology of the ordinary land, oil or mining faker should have gained the blind loyalty not only of trust ing widows and inexperienced far mers, but should have obtained and retained the confidence of shreWd business men and wary bankers. Yet he did it, is doing it right now, and yet after his last failure in December, 1924, with liabilities of more than ten millions and no assets except real estate mortaged to the hilt, he called for contributions to "defense and reconstruction fund.- with which to acquire some wildcat oil leases into which the receiver had declin ed to pour any more funds As a result of this printed appeal Lewis within a few weeks received between S5O,OOO and $6O,OOO for which he did not even give his note!
 How did he do it? How could he, adjudged a bankrupt in St. Louis come to California in 1913 with $2OOO of borrowed money, buy ranch of 23,OOO acres at a cost of a million dollars with his last five hundred dollars, complete the deal, subdivide the ranch, take in $23,OOO,OOO in ten years, be adj dg ed a bankrupt again and once more borrow thousands of dollars merely by asking for it? With twenty-year record of broken prom ises and thrilled pledges, how was it possible to find enough trusting souls to pour their savings into his bottomless pocket?
 Go to Atascadero, the community he huilt On the cattle ranch he