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Show j Enlarged Home of the Western Rubber Sales Company I 7 . . - " ' i r .. . ! ' ' f : j i 1 ' ' ? - u i - , - ' v I r ' ' "' ' The growing demand lor Gates liall'-solc tires and the- immense sale of Racine fabric and cord casings, is responsible respon-sible for the expansion of the Western Rubber Kales company as shown above at loA-36 East Broadway. . h irjcK-s j'iiially ork their vay through Hii.1 ituici' lari's v' lalirie iiu-.l a lilow-nu! lilow-nu! lijippons. So v itI'u.tc to liall'-olo tirc t));il do ait. how tip r i t;b 1 and :i:'ain w t- ,-;ui Lacl-, it our wurk by our O'.1. n ri'jMitatinu. ' ' W'u arti-iiiuto our LU'o tli to Iho in-li'Tcnt in-li'Tcnt ooilih'-ft of tin.1 Co.U'S llalt'-snlos, ticii iJi-uporly appti'.'d ami to the jTeat road al'iiilv oJ" tln .(.iacinc multiinilc1 cords anil labric lircs. V'o expect to keep on provin;'. 1 ' ''Did you ever hear of a woman i'ry-i i'ry-i n x a stea k on on 1 y one si do ami then bri ni il to the table l'ol' her folks to ce.t '.' ' ' ask'd 1 ,o!vn,;o Smith, manager man-ager of the Weslcrn Tlnbbcr Sales com pa n y . ' ' Xon would think Iut a ra t her r i lit - it Ions woman ihL a m igh I y poor cook, wouldn't yon.' Well, the a venire e n lea n izi nr jda a I' today u a ly cooks the ' ' steal;' on one side and then hand:-! it to the car owner on a platter splashed with vocal yravy and exp'Ccts him to eat it. 'Arn! Lie docs, eat it, loo, because he don't know any better. So we are 0-iny; 0-iny; to tell the car owner a. few facts about vulcanizing. TJiis is the way we do it: We place the tire in the usual steam vulcanizi u; form and thou place a device we ha e on the inside which i.s also charged with steam and when the tire ha.s been sufficiently cooked we know that the ' stea iv ' is done on both 'sides. This insures a properly vulcanized tire patch and means that both sides are properly mired to resist roa,d wea r. .By doi nn; this we eliminate elimin-ate all chance of overcooking the rubber rub-ber on the tread and h'aviii it dry and hard and i ea d y to chip off ea si ly. - "And aai n . we sel I 1 i res thai have a reputation we can afford to back up with our own reputation. And wc have; found out that a tire subjected to lonii i road wear will have miliums of little 1 pieces of I'oad ravel, and soniet i mes fine rlass, embedded in the carcass, underneath the tread. These little |