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Show 1 I1EPOT Limping Flivver Put in Use During the Gold Rush j in 1849 HB9 Doubtless many people do not know fjr-fi that the movie producers invented the i- .1 mo (or car r m Yes indeed. And It happened long Crij8 years before any of us had enjoyed the 'M d 11 thrill of trial In ipe der'a i&Tl court, or a flat tire a hundred miles L from Nowhere. Ill .- j The first automobile to ever om- A flex the life of Hi 1,1 ;,nd hon-":aMe hon-":aMe l.orse appeared iefon th iVB 'n ot a certain firoan of '4 9.rs. bent on VJ Kottlng to California, who arose from H their alkali gravi 8 long enough to re- 'i a hearse the historic marrh for a certain 'I fll ' movie producer. MOVIi; PRODI EB Mot KS R l.i I Y. He Bs m tnl3 automobile In a picture Whose HE period was over half a hundred years! BX ago. I sat thru the picture a second' mw time in order to prove my sensiy. ' FnS Sure enough there was the ftUtomo- SjfS bile not a little limping flivver, mind j you but a P' i ng fiflgl I'lng easily along the far hbrisoii, Df-1 HH . .' the Immcdlati foreground - ere Lhe jji sturdy pioneers were nursing soi feet and trudging along In the wake of x their prairli schooners, eyes and gum WBM fixed for interfering redskins. BBS A striking thing was th complete' indifference of the '4'iit.s t. th. motor - i car snugly silhouetted against the rij southern skir Th Hon of It 4Bv was monumentll. N r can i forget th valiancy of those wcarv travelers vSjflH who not once so much as turned an WM envious eye toward the fore afluent BS Kohl yirluT. In tin- r.ir-lns; i-n.l...- . I could not refrain from feeling a ! JBJ measure of their grim steadfastness to HfeB purpose Doubtless these hardy Amer- H Vans had set out to trudge to the gold ! jB ..elds, vowing that thru physical hare-1 Msf ship and mental discouragement thej HT .-r- would plod to the end of lh ;r rainbow and to Russia with tiny danged Fierce-! Wm Barrow that attempted to upset their wM' morale IM rn-ri RES HELP K PER i t i 4 f Alts. Mg&Si This cinema chronicle placed the 7K tale of the motor car's dlscocry at gjgjjj 1849. We might Just as well have1 been given the secret fifty years ago QK in ten. PyW Howver, the movies have been ex- Irsivasjantly helpful in perfecting the! rjk motor car. if we may believe the pro- ducers who don't watch their horizons I and Oliver Chlckford's press agent, ' HJ whoso lalest report Is that Oliver has Jus', laid in a summer stock of Umou-sines, Umou-sines, touring cars, coupes and se-J dans, the lik- of which have neer bcfoi ).. ii -I'M) L-iKht Metcalfe u Motor Life. |