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LADIES' RAIN COAT
WHITE SHOES
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$5 Start $1.00
SUMMER HAT
$3.00
ALSO
Remarkable Reductions in all Departments.
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MOTORING SECTION
MOTOR INDUSTRY.
TO GO AT TOP SPEED FOR 1928.
As a notable addition to its re- cently announced line of sixes and eights, Moon announces the five-passenger Moon, "66" cus=" tom built four-door sedan.
BRITISH TRIAL.
A LADY WINS IN OPEN COMPETITION.
Chandler-Cleveland has an nounced its new 1928 line, made A wornan, Miss Foley, beat all Detroit, August 29. The automobile industry is all up of twenty-fiva body types on comers in the Coast to Const re- At the ability trial in England, riding a set to go-in fact it has already two chassis lengths. started, and every indication same time price reductions rang- Triumph. Miss Foley gained a points to greatly increased activi-ing, from $100 to $200 are effec-wonderful success when she won ties. All the larger plants are tive. Additions to the line are the Alan Douglas trophy for the stepping up production as new the six five-passenger sedan, a best performance of any machine models are being announced, em- special six coupe, and a five- in the 800-mile Southport-Scar- borough-Southport trial, and the Harvey Kelly trophy for the best ployment figures in the Detroit passenger sportster.
Trucks Booming.
solo performance. This undoubt district are showing a steady up- ward trend of several thousand
The truck division of the edly ranks as one of the greatest each week, and parts and acces- sories manufacturers are at near automotive industry is booming feats yet achieved by a lady rider capacity activities in an effort to along at a pace that bids fair competing on equal terms with supply the urgent demands for to go over the production top to men, and incidentally provides a a greater extent than was anti- further tribute to the "Trusty Not to have lost a new equipment.
cipated during the early months Triumph."
of the year.
Dealers, too, are ready and
New trucks are single mark in a 300-mile trial pro- anxious to go, and are determined being added by all. the leading vides eloquent testimony to the to make up for inactivities of the manufacturera, and the demand skill of the rider, and the reliabil past several months when sales is showing a steady increase, ity of her mount-Triumph. fell. below normal. New mer-
especially for heavy service. chandise will undoubtedly stimu-i Reports being received from all late sales. The change-over period has passed and the in- dustry, is now about to proceed at.top speed,
Employment offices have been working overtime in their book- ing of skilled mechanics, and during the last week a total of 4889 added to the rolls in De troît alone. This brought the total close to the 200,000 mark. One year ago, however, the total employed was 229,841, but this within a gap will be closed month, and last year's figures greatly exceeded.
New Buick Line.
Buick is out with its new line for 1928, consisting of no less than sixteen different styles- twelve closed and four open de luxe cars. They are in three series of 116,120 and 128-inch wheel bases. A five-passenger town brougham in the 120-inch series is a new addition to the line. Prices are unchanged.
Only slight changes have been made in the lines of the cars, but
are to
sections of the country the effect that the used car in- dustry is improving. This con- dition follows in a wake of new car buying where a trade-in is Involved. The call for open cars continues to decrease, while steady increase for closed models is reported. Turnover of good used cars is rapid, and dealers are satisfied with a low margin of profit with a result that their stock at present is satisfactorily flow. They are anticipating a congestion in their used car de partment, however, that will start with the increased buying of the new 1928 line,
SILENCE AND EFFICIENCY.
Starters. Which Won't Start.
MOTOR BLAZES TRAIL.
A motor-car blazed the trail from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Asun. cion, Paraguay, according to reports to the United States Department of Commerce. This accomplishment was the first journey by car be- tween the Argentine capital and the remote inland capital of Paraguay.
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Leather upholstery is just se liable to perish as anything else. Thorough periodical polishinga will preserve it, and renew Its appear ánce. Make it a point to search the upholstery every little while for missing tacks, lifted corners, or dis- placed springs.
of thoughtlessness, but of sheer. recklessness.
Starters Which Won't Start. Very few self-starters can be re- So silent is the modern motor-led upon to work efficiently under car, considering the speed at which all conditions. To such an extent it travels and the vast number of is this true that, unless one wishes working parts, that it is seldom to use up all the current in the
NEW SEASON GINGER there are new fenders, head-realised by the average motorist battery, it is often necessary to give
Most reliable, good-strong colour, mellow
and well preserved.
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Telephone C. 989
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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37-Behold
38-Marry
|40-To Guide
41-A feline quadruped
|42-Put down?
44-A sailor
VERTICAL (Cont.)
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winter
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12-A watering-place 14-Profound 16-Factions
145-To cook In an oven 17-Type of railroad car
|46-Conceit |47-To waken: [48-Prefix meaning
"into" 49-Bram 30-Prefix meaning
#from"
VERTICAL
1-A kind of ore
2-Old Bo!
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B-To lubricate
6-A notable exploit 7-A disease"
30-Brick-layer
21-Benlor
| 23-A four-whested
vehicle 55-Cover
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30-Family of young
puppies 31-Variety of wine |32-B«Hot
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$9-Dreadful
41-An envelope 45-Racket
145 Unopened blossom
SUGGESTIONS FOR BOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in aach white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle. will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
PLEASED!
DODGE BROTHERS'
-PRESIDENT.
lights, and a new type of steering what a tremendous amount of time the engine a couple of complete wheel.
Bodies are somewhat and money have been apent by turns by hand before employing the manufacturera to gain this end. starter. The only thing which one lower, with a variety of colours Their endeavour for many years is saved is giving the final jerk to from which to choose,
past has been to produce a silent set the engine in motion. Hudson has started the ship-vehicle, not only because silence is failure of many starters is due to ment of its new line of cars appreciated by every class of the the fact that they are not sufficiently the six on a 118-inch wheel base, community, but because noise im- powerful to get the piston over the There are two body types, which plies excessive wear and lack of compression stroke at the required
Detroit, June 26. "I am pleased gives the company an intermedi-efficiency. Perhaps more has been speed. Almost any starter will, of ate line between its Essex and expended on the gear-box than any course, work properly when the en- about the prospects of Dodge
other part. It is an extremely diffi-gine is warm. Hudson supersixes.
But this fan't Brothers," said E. G. Wilmer, preal- One naturally expects dent, I do not wish to predict Three new cars are announced cult matter to secure a noiseless enough,
cases makers that it will operate under almost earnings for the second quarter be- by Studebaker. They will be gear, and in some known as the Commander, the have gone as far as to scrap nearly all conditions. The battery cannot youd saying we have come comfort- half of the gears machined, while be blamed for the failure, as any ably through a transition period Dictator and the Erskine Six numberless shafts and ball races ordinary battery that is kept pro- during which our entire four- sport roadster. Following the have gone the same way. The perly charged will give the equiva. cylinder car line has been changed Studebaker established policy, the valve mechanism has occasioned a fent of 2 horsepower, a power which and a new six-cylinder line added,
"So far the six has been produced cars are fully equipped with all lot of trouble in various directions: is perhaps seven or eight times as necessities and many luxuries. carburettor makers have a problem much as when the engine is swung In only one body type, but we are Many now getting into production on two The new sport roadster is equip- still to remove the peculiar hiss at full effort by hand. ped with wire wheels.
which is heard at certain speeds; starters fitted are absurdly small other models in this line. All deal- any many fitments, such as the and it is only within reason that ers have not yet been supplied with speedometer drive, tend to bo nelay. they cannot function in the opti- sixes but we are gradually increas- Ing production of these cars, I am The difficulty is increased because mistic manner which is expected.
optimistic about the future.".. as the engine and transmission be
It often happens that a continual come less nolay other strange The Cause of a Blow-Back, sounds, which have passed unnotic- ed before, make themselves heard. pray of petrol is blown-back Many motor-cars aer wonderfully through the carburettor in many silent to-day, but experiments are older fashioned four-stroke motor- still being conducted at consider-cycle engines, and this fault la not able cost with a view to the produc-only confined to those which are fit ted with automatic inlet valves. tion of the perfectly silent machine. The remedy, of course,, with a machine fitted with automatic inlet
New Dodge Models. Initial production of the new Dodge line of four cylinder cara embraces three body types-a sedan, cabriolet roadster and coupe. The sedan is the only model available for immediate delivery, but the roadster and coupe will soon be in the dealers' hands:
More new models are to be an- nounced next week, and these announcements will continue until practically every manufacturer is heard from. They are all anxious to get their new models before the buying public at the earliest possible moment for the fall and winter demand.
CHILDREN LIKE CHAMBER- - LAIN'S PAIN BALM, ・
Reckless Drivers.
I lately stayed for a few days in valves is to fit new springs, as the a country house overlooking three cause of the trouble in that the old road-ends--as the country people springs have grown too weak to With call it. This is, where one road, close the valve smartly. joins the centre of another a right mechanical inlet valves--all modern angles. I have been astounded at engines are fitted with these-the the reckless manner in which many trouble is occasionally due to the drivers take the corner-a blind pitted state of the inlet valves in one, too. Not only do many drivers that they do not seat properly. awing round from one road into the But more often the fault can be other, in both directions without traced to the exhaust valves. If decreasing speed or even sounding these close too early, due to the their horns, but I have seen worn state of the exhaust cams or numerous instances in which one excessive clearance between the car has tried to overtake another valve stems and the tappets, a blow- If the inlet For "black and blue" bruises, on the corner itself. The traffic is back is inevitable. sprains of wrists and ankles, fairly congested at this point, as valves be in good order and the "strains of corde and muscles, stub-
a main spring of correct strength, the cx- the straight road is bed toes, cuts, burns and other thoroughfare and a bus route. I haust timing should be tested. If mishaps of childhood, Chamber- have seen several accidents only the exhaust valves close before the lain's Pain Balm always gives re- averted by the marvellous skill of top of the stroke even when the lief. Does just as much for older some of the drivers, but this fen't clearance is correct, the effect of people too. Eases their rheumatic enough. No matter how skilful and retarding, the exhaust cam wheel paina, backaches and neuralgia. I competent a driver may be no one one tooth should be tried, so that the Just rub it on the sore spots. It should run the risk of endangering valves will not close until top dead is penetrating and quickly helps. the lives of or inconveniencing centre is reached. In nine cases Sold and recommended everywhere. other road-users. It is not a case out of ten this will effect a cure..
BY COLLY. EVERYONE CIVES ME "THE ONCE OVER-1 WONDER IF I'M UNDER SUSPICION
HERE IN RUSSIA?
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