Buy Your What Now?

In early October 1920, the Roper Bros. were offering deals on the 1921 models of Haynes autos at their new garage (built in the summer of 1920; see, e.g., "Roper Bros. Erecting New Up to Date Garage and Sales Room," Hobart News, May 17, 1920).


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From the Hobart Gazette of Oct. 8, 1920.

That's yet another auto brand I never heard of before. The Haynes Automobile Company of Kokomo was the brainchild of native Hoosier Elwood Haynes.


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Image from Chuck's Toyland, an interesting site with many historical automobile ads.

The above ad for the 1920 Haynes predicted, "The Haynes touring car will never lose its hold upon the favor of the car-using public," but the company went out of business five years later.

(By the way, I wish I could have gone to the Deepriver Church that coming Sunday to see the "strange" person who would lead the young people.)