The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 27, 1922, Image 3
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*5y/AARY GRAHAM BONNER
CO?1 eI VliTUN UNION - " ?
LIZARDS
"It's so nice," said the Australian
Monitor, "to sound rather important
at first. 1 believe
they have nioni
_ tors in schools
aM<1 that tIUy are
B things uiat areiminay
think I sound
disappoiuteti when
a curious creature
even if I'm not
important in any
"A Curious Crea- school way.
ture." * "I've never been
to school. No one
ever asked me to pro, and no one ever
sent me. They didn't care if I didn't
en to srhnol nrul hv 'tlipv' T mpsin tnv
family.
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"For an Australian Monitor learns
all he has to learn out of school Just as
well as he would in school. Perhaps
he learns his lessons out of school better
and what he should do and eat and
so forth.
"An Australian Monitor might he in
school filling ink-wells when he could
K A TV\ r* r* V* i ^ a nr/%?? it O
iiiuiviiig liijuiocrix u uin* a
better animal or reptile by being: out
of doors and catching a small rabbit
or something like that.
"An Australian Monitor, of course,
is a lizard?and a good strong lizard,
too. We can eat small aniiuais whole.
We are very large and very big and
grow to be eight feet long.
"We can run very fast and we live
in the dark jungles. We are fond of
meats in the way of food, or rather,
we don't care about vegetables.
"We are from India and we have
relatives in Africa and in Australia.
"But one of the most important
f ? r? tic io fV\of n-n a?o n
Lllili?0 d V\J U L UO JO liUil H C V *.1X1 tUl
eggs whole and that the sells dissolve
themselves just like capsules or pills
do.
"Yes, eggshells are alright for us,
and I'll tell you the reason.
"We have fine digestions. We don't
have our tummies getting upset the j
way so many creatures do.
"Gracious, we don't have to go to
bed and take bad medicines and say:
" 'Oh dear, oh dear, why did I eat
that!'
"Yes, we have superior digestions j
and they are important."
- "We are beautiful," said the Green !
Lizard. "And our family came over i
Jrom Europe. That is, we didn't coma !
' of our own accord. You know what I '
mean."
"We didn't go down to the pier with
our luggage and put our Dames on the
passenger list and then come across
In cabins on the big boat or anything
like that
"But we were brought over.
"And when you speak about digestions
we agree with you.
"It Is most important and very
pleasant to have a good digestion. It
makes a creature feel better and happier
and all of such things. I always
enjoy my meals and I always feel
happy. I feel so pleased with myself
that I show off and folks coming to the
zoo quite .njoy seeing me."
"ADd I," said the Chameleon, "have
been brought over here to join the
lizard family, for I have such a lot of
interesting colors wnicn i snow at uli- ;
ferent times."
"I am a curious creature," said th6
Gila Monster, "and I am really stupid. !
I came from the desert and I move
slowly and awkwardly along, for ray
body is fat and brown.
"I look as though I were covered 1
with black and brown and tan and j
yellow beads, but I'm not. It's just be- ;
cause of the kind of a suit I wear that
I look that way.
"I give a good hard bite and I make j
anyone suffer whom I bite, but I don't '
kill them. No, I'm !
not mean enough 7 T 7T3 !
for that. I'm sat- ^ V ijl ft/ I
isfied to make \cs-\\J^^ j
xnem suffer, that's j
"Well." said the !
Glass Snake, "I
would iiKe to nave j - -j
a word to say, or "* !
a hiss to make. j
I'm really a lizard
and should talk ~ytZ3rwith
all of you,
though I look so
much like a snake _
that creatures call
me a snake by
mistake very
often and my "RSaMy a Lizard."
n n m p vmi
know, is (.ibis* Snake.
"I'm a real lizard, bur I look like a
snake. That's pretty interesting. Now
that is more than any child I ever saw,
could do. I've seen a lot of them at
the zo?>, too.
"I'm sure none "ould look like pussy
rats unc yet be children, cr could
be pussy cats and looi; like fhildrem
I'm an interesting creature, I am!"
! JACK FROST AS GOUD FRIEND"
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His Scr.eficial Effect Upon the Soil i?v
calculable, and He Performs
Other Services.
those rvho will grow! when
icicles hang on the wall. To miliums
; Jack Frost comes as a friend, and not
: always in disguise, either.
j Ilis? inlluence on soil is wonderful.
says London Tit-Hits, besides re<iucj
ing it to a much finer state of tillage
1 than can be produced by any implej
inents known to man. it improves tts
i fertility and adds t<? its quantity.
j The highest counts of bacteria in
i soil--aud tlit*re may be 100.00<>,Ot'O it?
a grain?have been obtained in l:ar<i *
i .
I winters, and it is during such seasons
l that the disintegration oi roe': which
; produces fresh particles of soil goes
: on most rapidly.
j As water passes from the liquid tc
I thu ctofn itc uviiineivc linwr IS
; about lfiO tons to a square foot, which
[ is equal to the weight of a column ol
; rock about one-third ol.' a miie in
j height. 'i"hon comes the thaw, and as
| the water contracts away crumbles the
j surface of the rock, to ?o to make
i the soil from which we draw our sus
j tenanee.
j Uul in the Cotswolds, when winter
j Js coming on. they tura blocks of stone
i grain upwards. so that the rain shall
j soak into the layers. A thaw succeeds
a frost, and then the blocks are tapped
with a hammer, whereupon they fall
into flakes, ready, alter a little trimming
for rooting houses.
So, too, you may see the slaters
! working at Collyweston, near Stamford.
When there is a likelihood of
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irOSI, lUt? IllfU UilMl \>li uir cutiv.i
of the masses of slate which have been
brought up from the pits or Quarries
If there are two frosts in rapid sue|
cession, with a quick ti.Tw between,
all is well, as the slate splits into lay,
ers. But a spell of mild weather
i means thai the material becomes use1
less for anything except conversion
| into rubble.
BIRD'S NESTS IN ODD PLACES
Remarkable Boldness Shown by Many
Species When They Are Engaged
in Rearing Family.
Every year some fresh discovery is i
uiade by naturalists respecting the
curious habits of birds. The boldness j
! shown by even shy birds when domes- I
I tic duties are concerned is surprising, ;
j Robins are especially noted for their
| boldness, and a pair have been known
! 10 build their nest and rear their
j family on a beam in a school, entering
l by the window which was left open.
I Swallows seldom build in odd places,
but a pair have been known to build
iheir uest against a pane of window
glass. A swallow's nest in a funnel
is an exceptionally queer place foi
? .if thic tinppips to choose.
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Wrens are very Ingenious, and their
dome-shaped nests, wliieh are so
beautifully woven, are often found in
old kettles and tins, and even in the
pockets of old coats which have beet;
left hanging about. A hedge sparrow's
nest in a kettle was found in a bunch
of nettles close to a public footpath,
where school children passed everj
day, but the faithful bird, with nc
thought of danger, reared a family
quite un mo rested.
Circuiting the Earth.
A person making a circuit of tin
will one dav bv iroin'iT West
ward, and gain a day by going east
ward. In <roing eastward the sun i;
met before a complete rotation of th<
earth has been made. Thus th<
period from noon until the sun i:
ajrain met ift the meridian 5s shorte;
than from noon to noon in one
locality. Going westward requires a
little more than twenty-four hours fori
tlie sun "to catch up," so that from
noon to noon by sun observation
covers a period of more than twentyfour
hours. In order to keep dates
right, a day is dropped out of reckoning
by vessels sailing eastward wher
crossing {lie one hundred and eightieth
meridian?that is, they live th<
same day twice; and a day is addec
when they cross the same meridinr
going westward?for instance, arriving
at the one hundred and eightieth
meridian, Saturday immediately be
comes noon Sunday.
The Human Gyroscope.
When you are dizzy things appea:
to go round in a circle. However, tin
fault is not with the eyes but in o
mar the ear?an organ which ap
? ? ?? n.'.fltinor + r> /I r? Wl'th SijTll
rviiuuf, _ w -ccr
feel in?. Close to the ear Is loeate<
the little organ which gives us oir
po^er of balance, permits us to wall
upright without tottering, and, whei
properly trained, to assume posture:
which are distinctly outside the r?jru
lar routine of our daily lives. Eceen
t.ric dancers, acrobats, athletes am
others have unconsciously trained thi:
j "ba'anc* wheel" until they can* at
i strange things without, as we say, los
; irig their balance. When we spii
around rapidly, this delicate median
! ism is disturbed or thrown slightly ou
1 of gear, causing the eyes to move in
i dependently of each othor and to Sem
different impressions to the brain
This causes tUe spinning effect 've ca'
diczlness.
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Sarcastic Charles.
"Charley, dear," said young Mrs j
Torklns. "tlie cook who cnrae day b j
fere yesterday has l?*fi us." i
"TaJce anything with her?"
'Some few articles."
"We1.!, I suppose tlx* :orison rhe Iff
I ws wys that she didn't any u?
for us."
There is a little HOUSI
Th? little house! It is so small
I t hav? not found it yet at ail.
And ae year follows patient year,
Btrange towns of countries far arid naftl
Return the answer: "Nay, not heret"
And yet I know the lampiight falls
Caressingly upon its walls.
And I would toui h tiiem if I could.
To know if tluy are stone or wood.
la r? oliolr fnr VA11 Q n thftT*
X XICi C 10 CL C'.Uil iVi _ V- V- , W...U w
The light falls gohien on your hair.
But?with vomt graying lips unklss?4
The spiral shadows coil and twist
,n.bcut you as you turn to mist.
Our little house! Its window panes
Stung by a thousand passionate raln^
Are blind with ivy, and the moss
Creeps on the sill that we must croaa*
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It would not be so hard to wait,
* If I wore sur#> about the gate.
A broken la a h were trivial now,
To dazzled eyes, that marveled how
The sunrise rested on your brow.
But dawn is terrible unless
Love soothes its awful loveliness.
Ah, love, what fierce dawns storm an
dare
i The little house that waits somewhere!
i ?Mary Brent Whiteside, in Leslie
Weekly.
SHRINE LOOTED OF TREASURI
Russia's Soviet Government Has A]
propriated Kicnes ot ramous
Church of Saint Sergius.
St. Sereins' treasure of $.o>00,000,0C
has disappeared. Ked soldiers no1
use as a barricade the buildings <
what was once regarded as the ricl
est and most famous convent of a
the Russians save, possibly, that f
Kiev. There are but five monks Ie1
in the monastery. Fifteen others hav
removed a mile and a half distant t
the Church of Gethsemane, at Che
fiigovskaya where they have founded
f humble community and till the soi
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I 'i lie Oilier IIHM1KS \VIK? ii\t-u m mis \ m
! reli pious mecra, to which yearly wer
' 100,000 pilgrim*?, have been scatterei
i There are but few pilgrims now t
; pray before the ikon of St. Sergiu
| the miraculous powers of which wa
supposed by Russians to have save
the monastery from destruction by th
French army of invasion in 1812. Th
very jewels of the open silver sai
cophagus of St. Sergius have been r<
moved or replaced with false ones, i
Is claimed. Many of the vast treasur
of church vessels, mitres and crozieri
made of solid gold and inlaid wit
precious stones of immense value ar
missing:. It is claimed that the lor
from the monastery equaled in valu
the treasure of gold and silver an
precious stones of St. Peter's, Romi
The monastery Is now classed as a n?
tlonal soviet museum and no service
{ are held within the church.
A CFtHDIT RATING
Mr. Everbrpke: I want a good
diamond ring on credit. I've jus1
become engage^ to the rich Miss
Goldenbonds.*'
The Jeweler: 11 ! am sorry to have
to refuse you. Our credit man re
ports that it's difficult to get Mist
? a
tioiaeriDonas xo rc?.urn net cnjjaS?
ment rings. Call and see us wher
you need wedding rings. ? Thirt>
I days, time?five pep cent, off foi
cash.
Piano Box Shoe Store.
Have you ever been in an oil boor
town? The hope of strildng oil is a
great an excitement as th*j finding n
gold in '49. From the preliminrr,
leasing of the land, the promotion o
Rlock. to the setting up of a drill it ha
all the glamor and glory of speculs
tion. Once oil is hit, the gusher open
~ ? ? " ^ " ???aa ^/\?* fV? a
up IlUt UIII%> rilllll 1AH llic |il
but some measure of opportunity fo
the alert merchant. In the Arteanfta
fields almost overnight a line of stofe
appeared. They were nothing mor
than shanties at the best, but the sho
store took the prize of the entlr
main street. It consisted of four pian
boxes containing the best grade boot
and th^ best calfskin shoes at a pric
reminiscent of the war period.?Boo
and Shoe Recorder.
New York Woman's Fool Idea.
Because shr> dyed her cat a beautlfu
hlne t<? hnrriioni'/p with the flirnituri
of her apartment, a young woman ii
New York, who says she is a singer
was arrested on a cruelty charge b;
the Humane society. A probation of
ficer who was sent to investigate tt.i
case told the magistrate that the singe
had a three-room apartment nil done ii
Alice blue and had an Alice blue wan?
robe. She .wanted Orto to he of th
same shade and so dipped him. Twi
other cats that she had dyed had beei
poisoned by licking off the dye. Thi
magistrate gave her a suspended sen
teiK-e ana oruertu me nuiumie sucici;
.to keep the cat until its soft fur i
once more clean and there is nofurthe
danger to its health.
Easy to Start.
"I notice that some young womei
have started a movement to teach th
young men of their town how to tall
when paying a call."
"A waste of time."
"Eh?"
i "All that Is necessary when the youn
chap gets his hat parked and himsel
seated on the edge of a chair is to saj
I 4Oh, Augustus,' Montmorency, Perclva'
or whatever his name happens to b?
Mo tell me about yourself 1' Birml^
l taB Ags-Heraii
1 BANDIT KAKEf^:
4 DARING ESCAPE
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Holdup Man, Breaks Away
From Island Prison.
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FLEES DURING GAME'
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; Leaps for Liberty Through Gap in
Barbed-Wire Fence Cut While
Bullets Whistle About
His Head.
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4 Seattle, Wash.?Roy Gardner, west- j
em holdup man and hold mail robber, j
' ' known all along the Pacific coast as !
j the cleverest and most slippery prison- t
! er ever placed under arrest. Is again !
? ! a free man. He escaped from the
j govermnei:. prison on McNeil's island, !
?" In Puget sound, amid a fusillade of !
bullets.
Twice in his criminal career, before :
he was finally placed behind the bars j
j on the supposed impregnable McNeil's j
w island, Gardner had escaped from the j
^ | shrewdest men the government could ;
i set to guard him on the way to his ;
^ ! nrison. Twice he ioked with the man ;
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hunters on whom he turned the tables j
and made prisoners in his place. And j
6 twi<*e he laughed when he was recap0
turfd.
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Water Races by Prison Isle.
1. ' So Gardner came to be the most ;
?t closely watched prisoner in Uncle j
it S:i m's most closely guarded jail? !
1 guarded not by stone walls, and steel j
o bars, and armed guards alone, but by
s, the very conspiracy of natural forces, j
is It is set on a desolate isle in Puget j
d ] Sound with a wide stretch of wpter |
e 1 running at mill race speed between j
e Island and mainland.
r" j Gardner had been In prison for six j
^ i weeks when, on Labor day, the prison- 1
; ers turned out to watch a baseball J
e i game between two teams of fellow ;
s' ! prisoners. They were in the prison
h ! * ^ - <* r
I yarn, cut uu iiuiu nuw ^ uy a uigu
e j barbod-wire fence, with towers at the 1
r corners, in which sat watchful men j
? i with loaded rifles and orders to shoot
d j to kill.
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Tlie same went on and the guards i
i became interested in the play. Sud- j
I donly one of the players hit the ball a !
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Gardner Kept on Going.
terrific wallop for a home run, attractn
' Ing all eyes to the play. The next
s Instant Gardner and two others leaped
,f \ for the fence. Gardner, in ine xeaa,
j ! whipped out a pair of wire cutters
if | and snapped through the strands of
s i the barbed wire.
Two Companions Were Shot
S ;
r j As he leaped through the gap the
p i guards in the towers began shooting.
9 I Bullets were whistling around the
s | three fugitives. Gardner's compnnlons,
e j both former soldiers serving sentences
e j for vicious crimes committed while in
e 1 the army, fell, one dead and the other
0 ; seriously wounded. Gardner kept on
s goJnS*
e The break by Gardner and the sight
t of the gap in the barbed-wire fence
turned the 250 convicts in the prison
! yard into wild animals frantic for
| liberty. There was a howl from 250
1 i throats and the convicts started for
g I the fence. The guards had their hands
) full controlling them, so Gardner made
good his escape.
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DOG WINS OWN PAROLE PLEA
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Sentenced to Refuge at Kansas City,
Teddy Cries Till He is Sent
Home.
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^ j Kansas City.?Teddy, a young Collie
e ! dog, made his own plea to Police
! Judge West, Kansas City, Kas., over
^ ! parole. In Kansas City, Kas., dogs
s I charged with misbehavior are senr
j tenced to confinement at the Wyandotte
County Humane society animal
refuge for from one to three weeks.
Teddy was sent up for two weeks,
| but, having never beer away from homo
B 1 Knfnro lid nnc?pr1 hnth
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0 i days nd nights in dismal wailing.
The matron, Mrs. Whitford, brought
him into her own rooms and did everything
to comfort him, but the walling
continued. Finally she called up
^ Judge West and asked for Teddy's
f parole. While she was talking Teddy
' ; rushed to her side and quite; silenced
' 1 her voice with his own.
'' ! JudgQ West, having heard the arguL
' ' m. jj_ 1^V4 v
r xnent, aeciaea xeuuy xuigui gv uuuq
" i |^.^aain there during good
BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL
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No Time to Become Panicky
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The agricultural committee of the !
chamber of commerce met Saturday, |
reorganized, and among other things '
unanimously recommend that the'
farmers keep up a persistent fitfht on ;
the boll weevil by picking live weevil, i
picking up the early puncturcd j
squares, rapid cultivation and by
poisoning where conditions justify.
Will it pay to poison? The United
States department of agriculture says
it will, if the weevils are injuring
your crop seriously on land that will
produce one-half bale or more per
acre without weevil damage, and if
you poison at the right time and in
the right manner.
Calcium arsenate Is the poison to
use. Before the cotton forms i
squares, while it is yet small this can i
be applied to advantage in a rnolas- !
ses mixture, 2 Dounds calcium ar- j
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senate to 1 gallon molasses, 1 gallon j
water thoroughly mixed and applied I
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After the cotton is larger it should j
be applied in the form of a dust with '
some kind of dusting machine. Start;
dusting when weevils have punctured j
10 to 15 per cent of the squares, use I
5 to 7 pounds calcium arsenate per;
acre at each application. Keep your j
cotton thoroughly dusted until the
weevils are under control. This usu
ally means about three applications,
one every four days. If a heavy rain |
falls within- 24 hours after an appli- j
cation, it should be repeated, it wee- j
vils again become abundant before '
the crop is safe, one or two more ap- j
We a
Temporarily
machines that we
ready for busines
We have rei
cars rolling, and ;
trade as usual.
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value is emphasized by the
complete equipment of the car. It
includes cowl ventilator operated
from the instrument board; cowl
parking l:;-,hts at base of the windshield;
lnsj.de and outside door handles:
large, rectangular plate gloss
window in rear curtain: a thief-proof
transmission lock, reducing the rate
of theft insurance to Light-Six owners
15 to 20 per cent; and cord tires.
LIGHT-SIX PRICES
Chassis $875
Touring Car .... 1045
Roadster (3-Pass.) . 1045
Coupe-Roadster
(2-Pass.) 1375
Sedan 1750
Alt prices f.o. i. factory
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plications should he made.
Do not expect to eradicate weevils;1
poisoning only holds them in check. M
Dusting should be done at night j
while dew is on ar.d the air stiil. . :
Leave at least one fourth acre with- 1
out poison so as to be able to determine
results.
1. M. Mills,
Chairman of Committee.
June 24, 1022. ji
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Russia thinks she is entitled to a !
loan, but in this she stands alone. ;<
Belting Belting
With 58 rolls of Gandv, Ru't
Belts in stock we are in position t
Have a lar^e etock of Crescer
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Columbia Sup]
823 West Gervais Street
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Nitrate <
We are irt position to i
from the ports.
Try us. rrices rigni.
Telephone or wire.
SHULER ar
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we have rigged up
;re not so badly da
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placed our stock an
are in position to tal
erry Lumb<
Phone 56
?mber Newberry Chamber of Commero
TOTAL up the items of mech
refinements and complete <
Light-Six that are not found in otl
Estimate each of these exclusive
only a nominal value. Then yc
Light-Six ranks with cars listed;
dollars more.
In addition, you have the ad\
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design and better performance,
largest builder of six-cylinder ca
facts.
Get acquainted with the Light-5
and driving qualities. Then y<
that the enthusiasm of these o\\
performance that is not equaled
like price?or by many cars of r
McHARDY MO\
Distributor
Phone 300 Newbe
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THIS IS A STUDEB/S
Unnecessary Violence
"Yes, I'm continually breaking into
song1," said the cheerful one.
"H'm! If you'd once get the key
you wouldn't have to break in," replied
ihe dismal one.?Presbyterian
Witness.
There has been a water shortage in
London, hut they still have very satisfactory
substitutes over there.
The white man's burden is to keep
jther white men from acting yellow.
Belting Belting
)ber, Leather Feed and Planer
o take your orders.
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ply Company
Columbia, ?. C.
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of Soda
Tiake immediate shipment
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now.
i a few of the
maged and are
id have several
ke care of our
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equipment of the
her cars of its price. ;
5 improvements at i
)u realize why the |
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vantages of better
Studebaker is the
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Six. Test its riding
ou will appreciate
mers is based on a
by any other car of J
nuch higher price.
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