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A 1918 Hupmobile advertisement from The American Magazine.
"Dr. Clara Faulkner drives a new Hupmobile, purchased from Roper Bros. agents," quoth the Gazette of January 31, 1919 — probably at the request of the Roper brothers, but it also did no harm to tell Dr. Faulkner's potential patients that she had a powerful new car in which to reach them in a hurry, if need be.
The same issue carried numerous petitions to the Lake County Board of Commissioners, and several of those were for improvements to roads. In Ross Township, William G. Woods et al. requested that a portion of the road to the county seat, now known as Taft Street, be widened and surfaced with "free gravel or macadamized stone." The portion in question ran south from the Lincoln Highway (73rd Avenue) to about 93rd Avenue (if I'm reading it right), and apparently the road north and south of that portion had previously been macadamized.
Here's the petition, for what it's worth. Sorry about the terrible quality, but this is what I have to deal with on microfilm.
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Sources:
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 31 Jan. 1919.
♦ "Notice of Road Petition." Hobart Gazette 31 Jan. 1919.
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