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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1929)
I Saturday, April 20, 1929 GRAHAM-PAIGE OWNER PLEASED Car Easy Running, Quiet and Smooth Gas Mile age Is Excellent Ornhnm-rniife, with ItH new Uno of 1 ! 21 rnwleta, contiiuitN to Htir pons production nconU. to uievi llto demand for the Improved ram on five dliTori'in c Iui.sk I h. .hm-h pro.) union of 9010 earn brought tho total for the firm, iiimrtr or 1929 to 2Ii,2S4, nearly double the fljOireH for tho hiiiiih period lust year, when 13.125 curs were Imllt. A 01- moilel hi in- uud Ivury Gru-lmni-rnlwe wuh purchiiHed for the G run do Itonde hospital mo mly from tho Jennings Motor com pany. Its driver, Fred Mormon, manager of the hospital, has to far driven it JJftO mil and announces that r$ a ear of that prire and weight ho has never driven a inoiv Ktilfactory one. l A'llet (Ian Allleiiuo "It is easy running, quiet, smooth. For a brand new ear the pas inlleOKO Is exeellent,". Mr. Mormon-Hays. He mentions In particular the easy way In whleh It takes the bumps, tho f'lumn mohair unhoh. Kterintr. the roominess. Its elite up polntmentH, the gas -pump Instead of vacuum tank and the ulr filler and sus filler. The stop right now hnikes nisq entpr inlo the reason. for MivMor mon'a praise of the new car which hH drives. Kor Its type he thinly it superior to any he's ever driven and he's driven a Kod many, he says. .Mr. Jennings reports that Orn-ham-Paige has .brought out u two door five -passenger sedan to com plete the lino of bodies supplied on the popular six-cylinder '1 1 2 inch wheel bus chassis, model 012. 1 -Jn stylo and comfort tho new two-door closely follows the stan dards df the four-door model. Both exterior and interior carry the feat ureH that mark the full sedan type. Standard equipment includes painted wood wheels, with 6.00-19 balloon tires; but the ear -may be obtained with steel or wire wheels either five wheels with a spare tiro carrier or six wheels with side, mountings and a. trunk rack. The new sedan is. finished in n light gray with mouldings and re- 1 veals in a lighter gray, striped I . with emerald green. Both steel! and wood wheels are In tho lighter i gray, emerald striped, while, wire i wheels are emerald green all over. Of special Interest to owners Is the sliding arrangement for the two front seats. I'assengers In ! either sent may, by releasing a con- 1 venlent latch, roil forward, open ing a clear passageway for1 those entering or leaving the rear com- LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. . GRAHAM-PAIGE 612 IN POPULAR TYPE COUPE TJ S" Pis. --v -maw-Kt Wig c it 9io 1 Tin iinhain-luiuc, coiiko hukM, with or wilhimt rumble seat fr inrilrii.utssiwi as hmuirht am uricr Uh autoiiiohlle liov-season. Vern driiuiiix Is the local dealer of iinilintn Jalgi car. - . ' . " ESSEX TOWS HEAVY LOCOMOTIVE m - '" j . - ' g&v i Tyt2i ti H . ilJ Pl Among the Kpcctacular fi'iiis Hreoiiiplbdicri by Ksm llie ('liallengi'r, was the towing or a heavy rrelirlit locomotive ui Naslivllle. Teun.-- '1 Im- Kiverful 'm'X motor emerged from the ctpt'ihucnt iionei the worw. nut thv- etiitlnrer of tlio lmomatlve was mint mil. .Avory llarrlnoii is the HkhiI dealer for Hudson and Ksscx; vurn, V , ' '. -; ;.'. . . i r . ; ; partment. The- old draw-hack" of tho-two-door car the .inconveni eneo to front seat passengers: who were compelled to get out- of the car to admit othersr-ls. thus elimi nated. , -..- - ; HAitn vo iti:n iiATi;- , c "How's your car running?' "Not so good; can't get., her throttled down." "Mow's' your wife? - " "Site's the snmo, thank you." ' arlisle Mercury in lit "r7W: Jlenty ojr the vanaaian-iuexican Link Seen In 1930 ; 'iPSWICH, S. I. (AD The .pro posed Canada" to funal highway will by the end of next year, con nect Canada and Mexico with . a concrete road; J. W. I'armlcy, of Ipswich, president of the hlKhwny association, predicts., Hy the end of 1930' the: road will run. from Itrandon.-Manitoba, .to Mexico, op posite Ijiredo, Tex. j lventually the association hopes i to .extend the .highway to tho Tan - mint canal, touching nine countries, I Kroni Hrandon it is to run through North and South Dakota, Nehrus ka, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, cross. Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Costa itiea and 1 'a nam a. do I Driving Instructor:' Well, you understand the ,eai now ? Heglnner: Perfectly. 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