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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

JAM l. 1924 to JAM l. 1926 The Lewiston Buick Co. and
saPand Buick Co. sold and placed in the hands of satisfied
u so worth of Used Cars of various makes with
cost of insure their absolute sat-
faction.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
What is a Coach?
By Frank S. Carpenter Local ]

by FRANK 5. Carpenter Local Hud-
son-Essex Dealer
What is coach? Now that the
coach has become large factor in
motordom, the question is raised as
to exactly what Is meant by the term
The Society OF Automotive Engineers
defines it thus:
partment body. similar in general an
pearance' to the sedan, with two
close-coupled cross-seats for four
passengers. There is a luggage COM
partment or space for a trunk at the
back Of the body. There is no glass
In the rear quarters. The conven-
tional type has two doors only, the
forward seats being divided and the
right-hand seat tipping forward to
give access to the rear cross seat.
Some models have two doors on the
risht-hand side, there being two fixed
cross-seats."
It is three years since the worl
coach came into use. At the 1922
New York Show, the first coaches
were displayed by the Hudson Motor
Car Co.. on an Essex chassis. Both
name and cars were a Hudson Essex
origination. = AS the cars success
became apparent the name and
definition were adopted by the S. A.
E.
The first Essex coach sold for only
three hundred dollars more than the
open car - sensationally small
dtfferential. Now all coaches sell at
a practically open car cost. and be-
cause Of specialization and expert
ence both Hudson and Essex coaches
sell for less. Hudson and Essex have
built 100000 coaches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
Use Of Cement Has Increased so &c.
In Last S Years, u. s. Reports .Sho1u
Record Increase In Output
Accompanied by 1879
Decline In Price

~ ATA Just compiled by the
" u. 8. Geological Survey and
the Bureau Of Labor Stat
lstics discloses the fact that during
the year Just ended the output Of
Portland cement was 500 more
than i've years ago while prices In
the same period have declined
SIN cents . barrel or Is per cent
As . matter Of fact, It II seldom
that any industry has been called
upon to meet such an Increased de.
mand for its products a. has been
met by the Portland cement in
dustry since 1890. In that year
shipments were somewhat in excess
Of 100000 barrels. It IL estim.
ated that shipments last year
amounted to l45.7s0.o00 barrels.
an increase since 1890 Of so per
cent.
It IS q commentary on the vigor
Of American industry that. not.
withstanding the unprecedented
increase In cement use. tho manu-
facturers 50 enlarged their output
that stocks were always adequate
and that during the very time Of
this extraordinary demand. prices
actually declined. Prices Of Port
land cement are now lower than
the peak reached In 1920 and that
peak 80 far as cement prices were
concerned was far below that Of
other commodities and building
materialA
As regards prices. tho Bureau Of
Labor Statistics shows that the
peak price Of Portland cement
average OF SIX plants throughout
the United States). was S2.22h q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

ever built has equaed Hudson record in that respect
For years the SuperS has proved its lasting endur-
And while those Of decade ago still credaby
account for themselves, todas Hudson, improved in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
Real Change in
Auto Arrangement

What so annoys the men who do
big things in this world as the ex-
preston: We've always done it that
way!
Women wore wasp-waist devices
for years and looked grotesque
while suffering a thousand ills. Then
they did the natural thing and have
health, happiness and beauty they
never dreamed of.
Reapers, with long knife on
stick always reaped grain that
way" at least for 1000 years. till a
Mccormick built self binder.
Ever since the automobile was
made, two iron levers must stick up
in the drivers compartment. One
was the gear shift lever, one the
emergency brake handle. About
four inches apart. they consumed the
most important 10 per cent OF the
width Of the foot room.
Bumped knees, torn gowns, pinch
ed hands, resulting from the location
of the emergency brake lever and its
rachel handle, to say nothing of the
accidents and the dangers when
passengers knees got in the way Of
It's operation-these have been en-
dured, along with the loss or room
in the cluttered-up space, because
1t always was done that way.
No more.
Studebaker has taken that I'M
necessary lever out OF the drivers
space, where it never belonged. Ex-
perience has shown that 1t must be
grasped naturally in about the place
where the handle always was; il
must be drawn straight back, both to
be natural and to help brace against
the foot brake lever which always
is in use at that time. 1t must lock,
to hold on a hill.
So this 72-year maker OF only the
best vehicles hung the emergency
brake grip, like a pistol handle
under the instrument board, pro-
jectfng straight back and down
srasped in exactly the same place
1t pulls straight back. There's nc
catch garment in. The handle
turns up out of even the small space
it occupies, when it is locked to hold
! the car on grade.
! A heavy steel cable runs to an ex-
/ ternal, contracting band on the pro-
| peller shaft. out of the dirt and dust
| Braking is aided by the approx
nately four to one ratio of the rear
axle gears. That 10 per cent of
drivers space is saved; the thin
| single gear shift lever doesn't affect
the knee room at all. Slmple-as
F! are all the real developments in in
F; dustry-the wonder is it hasn't been
done before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
PORTLAND SHOW PROMISES TO
SURPASS PREVIOUS EXHIBITS

Especial to the Kennebec JournaD
Portland. Me. Feb. 1.-THE annual
automotive exhibit Of the Portland
Automobile Dealers Association will
be held in the Exposition Building in
this city during the week Of Feb ED,
closing on the evening of Saturday.
Feb. 20. Many departures have been
promised by Howard b. Chandler,
who will manage the show this
year.
Portland, state. and out Of state
exhibitors have already begun the
shipment OF their wares from the
big automobile centers Of the coun-
try to the Forest City for exhibition
at the 1925 show. 1t will be made
one of the most complete exhibit
tons in New England. and is being
heralded by the association as the
supreme effort in motor car dis
plays.
Practically every type of pleasure
car will be brought into the eX-
hibit. and the same will be true of
trucks and tractors and motor
cycles, together with an accessory
display of great value. AS in former
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

over the figures of last year. "These
gains for individual shows range all
the way from 1890 to 2OO9e. the lat
ter showing being made in Detroit,
the hub of the automobile industry
says E. H. McCarty, general sales
manager Of The Nash Motors Com
pany.
beginning with New York. where
the first Of the seasons motor car
shows is held. the new Nash Special
and Advanced Six cars were the
center of attraction and when the
doors of the Exposition Building had
closed. figures tabulated from the
bona fide sales records showed gain
over last year of 419e.
"There was never a minute dur
ing the Milwaukee show when the
Nash booth was not damned to ca
racity, for in that city as well as in
Milwaukee county Nash led all in
dividual makes of cars except Ford,
in sales for the months of November
and December. So at the Milwaukee
show a net gain in sales at the show
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
Fordsons Used to
Work on Steppes

Demands Of Russian agriculture
for Fordson tractors has brought
another large order and shipment of
approximately 1000 Of these power
units has just been made, it is an
nounced by the Ford Motor Com
pany.
The shipment also included 4
large stock Of tractor parts for SER
vice and checks given in payment
for the order totalIed nearly a mil
lion dollars.
One-third Of the Fordsons were
consigned to Odessa and the re-
mainder go to Novorossisk.
The first sale Of Fordsons to RUS
STA was made last August when 900
of these tractors wereN delivered.
Their efficient performance in the
field together with the low cost and
economical operation, resulted in the
present order.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

years, it will be the State of Maine
auto show, as well as the Portland
show. and cooperating with the AS
sociation in the welcome to the
visitors are the Portland merchants,
who will provide special store win
dow displays. rich in quality and
value merchandise. for the occasion.
Decorations will be even more ella
borate than in prior years, while the
entertainment feature will intro
duce Helms Little Symphony Of
Boston, under the personal direction
Of Gustav F. Helm. director and
soloist, presenting a program every
afternoon and evening throughout
the week. Reduced rates will be
given by the railroads.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

shipments Of Portland cement IN
1923 exceeded all previous records
BY . substantial amount. tho year
1894 shows IN increase over 1898
OF 3D. per cent In production ana
72 per cent in shipments thus
making new high records.
Production Of Portland cement
last year according to the Geolog.
teal Survey amounted to 49,
$4,000 barrels and shipments
amounted to 1t6.7l7.00o barrels.
At the same time stocks Of cement
at the end Of the year (l3.s67.o0o
barrels) were the greatest at tho
end OF any year recorded by the
survey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

barrel in September. 1920. For
the same six plants. the average
for October, 1924. was $1.s5, q re-
duction Of 873S cents q barrel. or
l6 per cent.
Similarly. the United States Geo.
logical Survey shows that the
average factory price per barrel for
the entire country (the price at
the mild. which reached a peak
Of $2.o2 for 1920 was $3.50 for
1929. Il Il estimated that the Geo.
logical Survey price for the year
1924 will be still lower than the
latter figure.
The Geological Survey data
shows that, while production ana
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

of 1850 over last year was made.
The Philadelphia show, which i'm
mediately followed New York, found
the Nash line again in high favor
with the public and when the week
ended a gain in sales Of 1880 over
last year was recorded.
Preference for Nash was ex-
pressed in, no unmistakable terms by
citizens of Cleveland where the in
crease in show sales was 44To over
last year and in Buffalo the gain
was $3.50 over 1924 All Of these
cities did large volume Of business
during their respective show weeks
and from every indication there will
be a shortage Of Nash cars whep
spring rolls around"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
Norway Air Route

Oslo, Jan. 19-(A. P. by Mail)-A
Norwegian company intends to initi-
ate a regular air service between here
and Malmo, Sweden, April IL. It has
ordered a number Of German air.
planes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
Nash Makes 900 Sales
Increase This Year

In substantiation of indications
that point to record breaking sales
in 1925, Nash has shown a net gain
of 90fe in retail sales at the six big
automobile shows held since Jan. J..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07

Hudson, because Of the simplicity Of the Super-Six,
has always enjoyed manufacturing advantages that
permitted lower selling price than is possible with
more complicated types That, in part accounts for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-07
For Ten Years
the Worlds Greatest BuV

Hudsons position the worlds value
SupS alone mechanical
have others copying
The smoohnes and long life gives exclusive No
equaled the SuperSx in smooness and long, economical life
A Leadership Never Disputed
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
GIRL SEES WOMAN
ALL DRESSED UP in
HER STOLEN CLOTHES

There she goes all dressed up in
my Sunday clothes"
This was the refrain Tuesday night
which Mary Rodriguez, 306 South
Leona street, sang as young negress
sauntered down the street ahead OF
her. She was wearing one of Mary's
dresses which had been stolen Satur.
day night.
Sammy Robinowitz, special police
man, was near at hand. He arrested
the negress upon the request of the
theft victim.
IAN admirer gave them to me-" the
suspect explained.
She was released after her story
had been checked by Captains Moglia
and Harvey and two more of the six
stolen dresses were recovered.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
ALIENS ARRESTED ON
WAY TO PICK COTTON

Wilds of North Texas cotton fields
will remain unexplored by twelve
Mcxicans. who will return to their ma.
tive land beyond the Rio Grande Wed.
neSday night.
The twelve aliens were arrested by
Patrol Inspector Daniel Hinojosa on
the Fredericksburg road TuesdaJ
night. They were members of a party
Of 60 Mexicans who had been recruit.
cd in border counties and were being
taken in three trucks to North Texas
to pick cotton.
They will be taken back to Mexico
Wednesday in a government truck
Captain W. VI. Hanson, district immi'
grafton superintendent. said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
.CHOPPY SEAS HALT
S-51 RESCUE WORK

Continued From Page OEe.)
rammed by the steamship City OF
Rome, said: Present weather con-
ditions S-51 make operations impos-
sible."
This was the first word to come
from the rescue fleet since late last
night with the exception Of a brief
weather report transmitted by the sub
marine mother ship, Camden. The
weather report had indicated that div
ing operations at least could be re-
sumed today.
Plans to make another attempt to
raise the submarine by the two giant
cranes, Monarch and Century. had
been thwarted when the numbering
craft we're forced TO return to New
port today after a midnight attempt
20 join the rescue fleet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
SWEATERS
WORK PROGRESSES

"a friend in need is friend in
deed"
So think the officials of the local
Red Cross chapter.
Just as the previously donated yarn
for the disabled veterans sweaters had
almost been exhausted, two donations
of SO each were received. The donors
being unable to knit did their bit for
the sick and crippled veterans just
the same as this amount will purchase
enough yarn for the knitting of eight
sweaters.
Up to the present time 20 sweaters
are being knitted and as winter is
just around the corner more volun.
teers are needed to complete the re-
quired quota of 80 for the Bexar
county district of the Red Cross, de-
clared Mrs. Gray Leavell, executive
secretary OF the local chapter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
COMMISSION BURNED.
SAN ANTONIO MECCA
FOR CATTLE BUYERS

San Antonio seems to be the Mecca
for buyers of cattle for diaries in
Mexico. according to d. J. Quill, chief
clerk at the Union Stock Yards sta.
ton, here. Several buyers are here
now and for some time past there have
been from two to half a dozen look
ing for dairy stock on this market.
From two to ten cars daily are
moved toward the border for stocking
Mexican diaries, he says. The fact that
stock here is both federal and state
inspected and tubercular tested is a
great factor in making this a buying
center.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
LETTERS THREATEN
3 MORE IN CLEBURNE

CLEBURNE, Sept. 30.-Three let
ters of a threatening nature, similar tc
six others delivered to Mayor Gold
smith of Cleburne and five business
men here. were found under the door
Of a local barbershop yesterday. The
new letters were turned over to finger
print experts.
The lettr rs were addressed to DR..
p. II. Turner, DR.. D. Strickland and
Sterling Capns.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
Report S-5l Raised
Proves Incorrect

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-LP)-Ar
erroneous report that the sd had
been raised Tuesday thrilled thou
sands who had been hoping against
lost hope that the rescue worker
might succeed.
The announcement was made by the
Independent Wireless Telegraph Com
pany and was based on a radio in
tercepted by their station at East
Hampton, /. 1. The agency broad
casting the statement could not be as
certained, the company said, but as
the station had been in constant
communication with one Of the tugs at
the scene Of the disaster, the message
was assumed for a time TO have come
from that point. H
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30

I ages, will be found the mystery suit
case, with the secret panel, of which
| authorities have certain knowledge
but which they have been unable to
find among her effects here.
Someone, who knew about. the
little brown bag and its precious bur-
den of hidden papers, ripped seams
Isof every one of the many bags and
suitcases found in her rooms.
Officers cannot force themselves to
think that act was accident. They
believe il was part of plot.
Questions in the habeas corpus hear
ing Tuesday, asked by the district at
ney. indicated he was trying to find
a connection between the aged wom-
ans death and the plot of years that
caused the wealthy widow to live in
fear.
I'VE had never quarreled before ex-
cept once" officers who arrested Mrs.
Sheridan after the Staying say she
told them.
when was that?"
Once she saw me talking with
man, and after I came in, asked me
who it was. She seemed TO be afraid
or greatly excited about something"
QUARREL OVER MAN.
'Wwho was that?' she asked me.
"'Oh, that was Mr.. Smith, / told
her,
Where did you meet him? What
does he want? What is there between
you two? she asked me.
That made me mad.
What is it TO you?" I asked her.
There must be something between you
and him, the way you ask about him.
Except for that day." Mrs. Sheri-
dan said, she and Mrs. Mrs. McCobb
never quarreled until, as she ADMITS.
she slew Mrs. McCobb with hammer
last Friday.
Now investigators want to find that
man.
They believe he may be the man
whom Mrs. McCobb feared in life
maybe the man who rifled her rooms
either before or after her death.
They believe he may be the man
who visited Mrs. Sheridan just an
hour before the hammer Staying.
And he has disappeared.
They also are trying to link the
mystery man, who for years has haunt
ed the slain woman's trail. with adj
dresses in New York and San Fran
cisco.
They are trying TO connect him with
the code letters found among Mrs.
McCobb's effects.
And they are trying to find what
connection the slain woman had with
such men as Woodrow Wilson, Presi.
dent Of the United States, with whom
she carried on correspondence.
WOMAN is SILENT.
I'VE do not accuse Mrs. Sheridan
of being party to this plot" Dis
tr:ct Attorney Chambers declared We'd.
nesday. I'VE are trying to establish
whether or not this mystery man, still
missing, rifled the suitcases in the
slain woman's room, and whether or
not that room was searched before
Mrs. McCobb died, or after the slay-
ing
Mrs. Sheridan still waits in the
Bexar county Jail, and is noncommit-
tai, presumably by advice of her at
torney.
Granted $4,000 bail at her habeas
corpus hearing Wednesday, she has
not made bond yet.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
W0RKMEN WILL LAY
AUDITORIUM STONE

With steel construction work prac-
tically completed. workmen are ex-
pected 10 begin laying stone on the
city'E Sl.O00,0O0 auditorium this
week, Robert AyFes, architect, an
nounced Wednesday.
The final shipments Of stone have
arrived and work will progress rapid
~ II there are no excessive rains be
reported.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
TWO FINED SIS EACH
IN TIRE THEFT CASE

judge George c. Clifton Of county
criminal court heard three pleas Of
guilty 10 misdemeanor cases Wednes-
day.
Richard Cohen and n. +. Croncb,
charged with the theft Of an sutomo.
hilc tiro from Scott y. Dyer. 701
S0uih Flores street. each were sem
tenced 10 five days IN the county jail
and fined So
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
SEEK MYSTERY MAN
in HAMMER KILLING
CONTINUED From Page one.)

taTs. They arrived here by truck be-
fore dawn Wednesday.
The half-obscured death trail of the
eccentric millionaire widow is one Of
missing millions, In the opinion of the
district attorney.
Along the path that led, finally, to
the house at go I.aclcde avenue, where
she was killed. Mrs. McCobb's life is
marked with strange milestoncs-pre-
cious. gem-studded milestones in most
cases-but always strange, unusual
ones.
And the strangest Of these was the
fear of the strange man with the twist
ed smile and tanned face, who came
from below the Rio Grande and had
blue eyes.
Tuesday Mrs. Mabel Longworth
Sheridan, charged with the hammer
staying, and who has signed ten
page statement, admitting she welded
the death hammer, according TO the
district attorney, won the right TO
$4,000 bail in a habeas corpus hear
ing before Judge W. S. Anderson in
the Thirty-seventh district court.
Anu the unCONtltu III
dead mystery woman's past, started
the defendant once so that she half
raised herself in her chair and gasped.
And from that point on, through
out the rest of the hearing. her eyes
never left the figure of District At
torney Chambers.
I'VE don't pretend TO know it all, =
said the district attorney. The mys-
terry of the dead woman's life is great
err than that of her death, but we have
obtained facts on which to 60"
SEEK MYSTERY MAN.
The mystery man, coming out of
the past. who wanted the papers hid
den in the secret panel of Mrs. Nc
Cobb's precious brown bag-the man
whose past criss-crossed that of the
slain woman-is the object Of the
search of officers now.
That Mrs. McCobb knew of such
a man-and feared him-they have al
ready established.
Haunted by the knowledge that he
would come some day, the wealthy
widow frequently moved from one
part of the city TO another, they de-
clare, explaining the frequent shifts
in her address.
Officers believe, too, that she came
to San Antonio in the hope of sinking
from sight, and thus obscuring the
trail that the mysterious man might
follow.
FEARED BY WIDOW.
Once, as she sat on the porch Of
her rooming house on North Alamo
Street, more than a year ago, she
watched a gray-haired man, with a
sardonic twist to his lips, walk past
the house.
Breathlessly she ran indoors.
Did you see that man." she asked.
"If he comes here inquiring for
me. tell him you don't know me, that
1 don't live here" she implored.
A few days later she changed her
address again.
Officers think she may have stored
II trunks and six precious packages,
valued altogether, at more than
hundred thousand dollars, in Laredo.
in the hope that if she were traced
through them, her whereabouts could
not be determined.
1t is hoped that among these pack
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
BLAST HURTS CHILD.

DALLAS, Sept. 30.-CP)-Mary
Fay Rossen, z, was seriously burned
about the head by the explosion of q
can of powder which she threw into q
trash fire late yesterday. Physicians
said she might lose her sight.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
NELIGIBLE DO MARRY.

DIES MONIES. Sept. 3O.-CRl-
The state is publishing the names Of
100000 ineligibleg for matrimony.
They are asylum or hOsnifal inrnstas,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-30
INA CLAIRE HAS SCHEME.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3O.-LP)-Ina
Claire is back from Paris with new
beauty recipe: Sit before a mirror ten
minutes every morning and make
faces at yourself. 1t exercises the
facial muscles.