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...advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon gases which are then yalved into the motor in the ordinary way. An 80% reduction in fuel cost for light trucks was claimed. The truck could carry fagots enough for a 60-mile run without stopping; could refuel with anything driftwood, barrel staves, roots, cigar boxes...
Election day is far off. Not even the Hot-Stove League at Chubb's Corners has begun to determine the country's next political potluck. Yet this man doggedly continues his long-range prophesy...
...Place de Tertre a U. S.- tourist-jammed, see-Montmarte-by-night charabanc was mobbed. Many a Knox hat was stove in. Many a pair of Hickok suspenders gave way. Havoc. . . . But no serious injuries...
...being shown at the Metropolitan. But this latest of John Barrymore's screenings makes you somehow long for the good old days when the look-out's shout of "Thar she blows!" was answered by a lusty "Where away?" and from then on it was "Dead whale or stove boat", and not a pursuit of the whale in a power boat, mounting a one pound cannon...
...bill is passed; the World Court is entered (so far as Congress is concerned); the Italian debt is settled; the tariff, farm problems, postal rates, reclamation difficulties, senatorial cloture, labor problems in the coal mines and on the railroad have grown cold on the stove for want of a little fire; prohibition fury is bubbling away to nothing in a futile investigation...