OCR Interpretation


Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, July 23, 1927, Image 2

Image and text provided by Library of Virginia; Richmond, VA

Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025841/1927-07-23/ed-1/seq-2/

What is OCR?


Thumbnail for

Now on\
Display *
w r —
(
1 * i
Greatest Triumph
with even Greater%ilues
At the highest pinnacle of Essex popularity—with the record
breaking sales of all time—with stocks swept clean, and
thousands upon thousands of unfilled orders—we abruptly
stopped the largest production in our history, to give this
Greater Essex right of way.
The industry does not record a '
like decision. Yet one glance—
one ride in the New Essex Super
Six reveals the startling reasons
that prompted it. If thousands
praised the former Essex, then
tens of thousands must applaud
the new. If all sales records were
surpassed by the former Essex,
then even higher marks must
reward the new.
No previous car — no previous
> value — gives anything by which
to judge it. It is the greatest
achievement in Essex history.
We are now showing this Greater
Essex Super-Six. We could say it is
longer, roomier, more luxurious,
with greater power and perform
ance—yet that does not express it.
We do say: “See it and ride
in it with greater expecta
tion of fine things than you
ever held for any but the
costliest cars". You will not
be disappointed.
Only by ordering promptly can
you insure delivery ahead of in
creasing thousands who want it.
2-Pass. Speedabout $790; 4-Pass. Speedster $835; Coach $735;
* Coupe $735; Sedan $835
; Y AM prices f. a. & Detroit, pius war excise tax.
\
i Roomier, Finer Interiors
G Canada Is Now Celebrating Her Diamond Jubilee;
&OBGE
Stephen,
, i Loro
*CXWT
, Ctepuew
... ■ ^ M ■■■■■■■■■■
P DOMALD SMITH, LOCO
f STCATHOOMA, 0RIVIH6 LAST
j SPIKE, C-PC.
►Sir Johm MacDomald
On July 1. Dominion Day, Canada
l began the celebration of her sixtieth
birthday as a united Dominion. This
Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
has unique significance in modern
-history as being In effect a tribute
to the Importance of rail communi
cation. The world readily ac'.titowl
j edges today that railways greatly help
in uniting a scattered and far-flung
' population. But Canada’s case is
' unique because Its first transconi. -
uental railway alone made complete
confederation a reality Instead of a
' mere desirable policy.
Canada’s confederation began with
ithe passage of the British North
America Act on July 1. 1867. the
I members at that time comprising
Upp«y Canada. Lower Canada. Nova
(Scotia and New Brunswick. In 1868
jan Imperial Order in Council gave
Rupert's Land and the North-West
Territories to the Hedging Dominion.
Manitoba entered Confederation m
1870, followed by British Columbia
in 1871. The latter, however, had
written Into the Terms of Union a
clause binding Canada to build with
in ten years a railway "to connect
the seaboard of British Columbia
with the railway system of Canada.’
The Canadian government first at
tempted to build the railway; then
Premier Sir John Macdonald ap
proached George 3tephen (afterwards
Lord Mount Stephen), a Montreal
banker, who In October of 1880 or
ganized the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company, and Agreed to complete
the railway by May 1. 1891.
Despite colossal obstacles, the Can
adian Pacific completed the railway
In 4 years and 6 months Instead of
I 0 ■ ^
v> ^S^kATHCOMA I
the allowed ten years. British Colt:in-'
bia was Indissolubly linked to her
sister provinces, and the most critical
period of Canadian history bad »'
happy ending. On Nov. 7, 1885, Don
ald A. Smith (afterwards Lord Strath-1
cona), drove the last spike on the
Canadian Pacific Railway, uniting,
the rails stretching westward from’
the Atlantic Ocean and those east-,
ward from the Pacific at Cralgel-'
lachle. British Columbia, and mak-r
lng Canada's Confederation an ao- ‘
compllshed fart.
Jessie Estelle James
|[Ayroo.^fcgG
Grand-daughter of the notorious
Jesse James is now in Los Angeles
to play the part 01 her f-.re;it r.T a mi
mother, or the mother of \ i jnrnes
brothers, in mov;r oi i• •
of the West’s tamed had mca,
Big Interests Join Forces '
To Construct Dec\' Waterway:
THOMP50M
Governors ol a dozen states neai
and far. two cabinet members sent by
President Coolldge. Rep L J UlcKtn
son. leader of the farm bloc In Con
gress. mayors of many large cities and
hundreds of civilian leaders in busl
oeas finance and railroading Joined
in eupporung tbs greet deep water
vayi >nd flood control conference
beta 41 Chicago under the direction
0 U+rtm WUUaa) Hsl# Pv.fr p- n
lev cost r/?M$Po$iAnQfJ
"i.\t ni'ti* l’ s**d ti.ates will ben
efit mntet tally from rhe step- te’-c •
to rr->ke i g'lways r! cur grci.: w;Hc»
courses a:.<1 to cctn at the r u.eo.
of this year's terrible floods." com
mented Mayor Thompson. "The con
ference was not of importance simply
to the Mississippi Valley.”
What perfecting of the great In!:.no*
water highways will mean to citueae
of the United States was told Mayor
Thompson in a statement by C U
Williams of Bloomington. 111., presi
dent of rhe largest otl-buaner com
pany in the United States
"We recently shipped an Oll-O
Matlc nurner from Bloomington Ur
Providence R I.. by rail." he eald
On the same day we started another
o Providence from San Francisco by
water It reached Its destination
three days ahead of the one sent by
rail, and the cost was three dollars
less Doing an international busi
ness we are able to ship cur burnc.*
from New York to foreign branches
for less money than it costs us to get
them to New York from the fs. v>' y.
Deep waterways, and lower transpor
tation charges, will mean u. ic‘ u>
consximers everywhere "
This statement was typical of many
oti.-r» nhowtng tbs economic value of
wa'erw** 1»'*lePRltOl
Vacation Brings New Risks . ’ !
i4s Danger Lurks in Streets
i * _i
Nearly $30,000,000 was spent last
'year on organised recreation for chil
dren In the United States, but more
‘than 30,000 under the age of IS years
were killed In preventable accidents,
nevertheless. Most of them died
from Injuries received while playing
.in streets and highways.
‘If the papers tomorrow should
announce that the whole populatloo
•of Coming, N. Y, or Alliance. O..
Galesburg, DU Fargo, N. D„ Sedalla.
>Mo, Ardmore, Okla, Key West, Fla.,
or Riverside. Cal, had been wiped
out the world would be aghast at the
news of the tragedy," eald J. W.
Meeker, general manager of the Cy
i clone Pence Company, of Waukegan,
m. "And yet a similar tragedy passes
every year because we do
•not mink of this ‘slaughter of the
Issinr- - m Ms entirety.
UNSAFE
School
Yard
_
9kAiTl^EL VAH6e*6
mothers and fathers when they
their children's rccreattan la
safe condition*.
“Playing place# am
Almost 800 dtlaa
10,000 separate
recreation and •
Of them. Hi w
but in many i
dran are la m
when OMf mM
You Just Know He’s Glad *
By Albert T. Reid
Hey.' Cy.'/N
6Y CRACKY./
I’m Glad to >
set You Oack7
GIODAP
I
cTT • ^
_ _

xml | txt