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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Celebrating the victory of the Locomobile which won the 1908 International Race for the Vanderbilt Cup. On November 9, 1908, the schools of the City of Bridgeport were let out and factories closed down; the entire city turned out to see an exhibition run of victorious No. 16. The streets were policed and closed, fire bells were rung and whistles blown. A unique demonstration of civic pride and enthusiasm. Ignition :-A long distance road race tesis the ignitionsystem to the utmost: a car that can win the Vanderbiltrace has obviously an ignition system of the finestcharacter.The iwo Locomobiles that finished firsf andfhird in the 1908 Vanderbilt Race were equippedwith the regular Locomobile low tension ignitionand magneto of our own design and construction T\\e<£bcoinobiIe Company ofAmerica; Bridgeport, Conn. NEW YORK —PHILADELPHIA — CHICAGO — BOS TON CENTURY ADVERTISEMENTS-AUTOMOBILES 51
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The Pierce Arrow is made this year in more styles than everbefore, but every Pierce car is built on the chassis which hasmade the Pierce a synonym for the service sought by every auto-mobile owner but obtained by only a few. The 1909 Piercemodels include Runabouts, Touring Cars, Broughams, Subur-bans, Landaus and Landaulettes, 24 to 60 H. P., 4 and 6 Cylinder. THE GEORGE N. PIERCE CO. Q$±±±£££Z*) BUFFALO, N. Y. CENTURY ADVERTISEMENTS-AUTOMOBILES ,*7:T\£*. ^SU**,^; ..:, ..,.,.. -:fe ..:■■■

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