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Show IJOIvE CAUSES WINNING MAN TO PURCHASE AUTOMOBILE Buying a motor car as the result of a Joke has been known -to occur, but the event Is so uncommon that Jacob Kor-ber Kor-ber of Albuqquerue, N. M., sprang into prominence as a motorist a few days ago when he was the principal in a storv of this hind. Korber is in the mining business. One day he. with three other . men. was In Denver on business when the subject I of automobiles was brought tip. Mr. Korber Kor-ber said he was not unwilling to buy a car if the rest of the party Tvould agree to ride In it from Denver to Albuquerque, 600 miles. The dare was instantly accepted and it was a question only of minutes before a big machine was bought, a chauffeur waa I hired, gasoline, oil. etc., were purchased 9 and the party -was on its way south- |