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59,507 FORDS
sold in 3 months
DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 30?During
the first 3 months of the buyers' pro
fit-sharing plan of the Ford Motor Co.,
. which started August 1, 1914, a total
of 59,507 Ford cars were sold, or an
average of 19,835 cars per month.
The buyers' profit-sharing plant call
ing for a return or refund of $40 or
$6,0' according to the car bought, pro
vided that between August 1, 1914.
and August i, 1915? a total of 300.000
cars are sold and delivered, the 59,507
cars are sold to October 31 represent
a efund of at least $2,380,280 on the
basis of a rebate of only $40 per car.
By taking the. average of $50 as the
return to each buyer, the amount to be
returned by the Ford company would
be $2,975,350 for the first 3 months'
business on the new plan. If the 30C
O00 cars are sold .and delivered then
the return to buyers will amount to be
tween $12,000,000 a*nd $15,000,000.
T'l' f v< V I u S A.I C v ...
Lower Prices On Ford Cars !
Buyers to Share in Profits
Effective August let, 1914 to August 1st, 1915, and guaranteed against any reductions
during that time. All cars fully equipped f. o. b. Detroit.
Runabout
Touring-Car
Town Car
$440
$490
$690
_ All retail buyers of pew FORD cars from August 1st, 1914 to August 1st, 1915, will
share m the profits of the Company to the extent of $40.00 to $60.00 per car on each car
they buy provided 300,000 Ford cars are sold and delivered during that period.
REMEMBER?JT'S A FORD YOU WANT
Road Smooth
Set of Four
$15.00
' . New Price
K-W
Motor Vibrators
$15.00
We carry the above
gooik iL tock, also
Firestone Tires
sizes
TODD'S AUTO SHOP
s. c. w.
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Horrors -of Christraas?As They
Appear to a Cynic.
Uhe December > American Maga
\amcs Montgomery .Flagg, the
wit and- artist,' does a' Christ
mas'jpfece In words and pictures in
which he describes in part as fol
lows tho cynical view of Christmas
that, a perfectly decent man had in a
dream: . < . .'
"To continue the horrors, there is
they family reunion! What can* be
more doloful than a whole day given
up to squatting in the perfcrvld circle
of your immediate blood relations? In
ones ?r twos it is not necessarily un
bearable, but to be pinioned for 12
hours in the lap of osculatory con
sanguinity Is flattening to the soul!
Your family while they.treat you with
the brutal affection and disrespectful
familiarity of old friends, know you
slightly! , They are always presumpt
uous! Never doeB human intercourse
descend so hear to the life in a tly
tray as oh Christmas. Everyone walks
and crawls about all over every other
one's head! You have to sit and beam
and "Shmerrychris'mus' and 'No, I
said it first!' And*a bunch of obscure
cousins and aunts crowd in on the al
ready perspiring mass and have to be
kissed through veils?veils don't help
much?perhaps a little!
"Then comes that Ilondishly ponder
ous Christmas dinner, with resurrec
tions at intervals of tribal jests drag
ged out of the family mausoleum' for
DID you ever think how much it costs to give you
me telephone right-of-way anywhere, at all times?
Your telephone matrument, which Cons?ts of 130
diff?rent parts, is only the entrance way. to your share
of the vast equipment necessary in making a call.
Your, line is connected with f-he great Bell highways*
leaching every state in the union*?with its poles, copper
wire, cross arms and insulators in the country; its under
ground conduits, m& oholes, cable vaults and cables in the
dues. ._'
You; have the use of switchboards costing upwards
?f $100*000,000. You enjoy the benefits of coun?esn in
ventions which make possible universal telephone talk.
Your ser/i?e is safe^uarctfed by large forces of men
building, testing and repairing lmeB. You command at
ell times the prompt attention of one oi more operators.1
How can such a costlv service be provided at rates
' f its use upon a share-and-share-alike basis by
cwarcny is as essenaai 10 its success as 13 tnOiW*r?i
c^>?^t?v? use of;the facilities pjovided. '
to tielephone become such a
no other management has
many Calls may be made or ho?wevet- fkr apart StAsc?-iber^ may fefcj
their annual gibbering, t<nd the co
quettiBhness of brothers'; wives, anil
tho parading of the dyspepsia of old
Aunt Clara, and tho dinky tablo fav
ors, mostly receptacles for broken
glass Christmas ?andy, cinnlngly dls
gulshed as snowballs, Santa . Clauses
and drums and youus ducks, over
which you are expected to giggle and
equal, and eventually collect and take
home with you and line up on the
in an tiepiecer where they stay' for days
until you suddenly sweep them Into
the scran basket! There are 18 klndB
of dessert yon roust sample and wash
down, with elder, and get an . .^iwful
stomachache.
"Then you fatuously take turne at
opening bundles, as you did when yon
were children. You have to pretend
you have.never seen your present be
fore, when In. reality it was be own to
you weeks ago. Dut you unwrap it
with a beautiful assumption of inno
cence, and a widening grin' tbat almost
makes, your ears meet on top of*your
head when your enchanted gaze final
ly rests on the novel you read last
summer! 'Just.what I wanted!'"
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? ?ET all THE FUK YOU CAN o
0 OTJT OF CHIUSTM AS; o
o ?- - o
'- Get all the fun yon can out of o
? Christmas. Plonge ItttO tho et- 0
? stosphero ' right away. Smngftle 0
o packages tfo and down stairs o
o and Hide them in th? ?01 a fasii- o
o Ion cd" hiding places, o
0 And remember everybody, not o
o Wlttr the substantial presents ?
o yen ~ have' thongs? It imperatlre ?
o to phtv but with ft' jar of' Jelly, o
? ft piece of fruit cn?te or book or ?
O marine cover made from bits o
fr Of linen year scrap bag has for- 0
0 toishcd; a dainty sachet- ?aee 0
? f ronf silk 'straps or "un* oks of a ?
o hundred ether slirinl?'thing* yea ?
0 can work on at odd times. Thene o
e are tho sort of presents white 6
e wfll restore th? ?Id time thrills 0
0 that hare been well nigh lent in e
orrymg
Decide on Something the Whoie Family
Klf??i^ttT^Year!
Develop Your Children's Music*! Appreciation With The
New EDISON Diamond ?isc Phonograph!
PUT all the world's best music where they can
heap it every day. A long program at a concert
tires a youngster, but they all love to hear a Mtre
music at frequent intervals. Thus a real appreci
B ?tion is unconsciously acquired,
No needles to change.?? permanent diamond is th? reproducing
point. The records are indestructible. Prices Range from $60 to
$250. .
REMOVAL PIANO SALE
We wiil continue our cut prices on Pianos, Haver-pianos aria
Organs until-January-1st, 1915. These are genuine Rtemoy-al ^at?
reductions op tne ftifehest quality instruments and vou Wilt never
Iget another chance to buy a Piano or Player-Piano as cheap as you
can now.
I
ain Street, Anfeson^ & &