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At the Forks of the Grand: Volume I, 1956, p. 235

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TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS She: "No, what did he do?" He: "Tied a tin Ford to a Newfoundland dog's tail." Perhaps, too, Mr. Bosworth went around warbling a song with the theme "And the little Ford will ramble right along". A few lines (quoted from memory) are as follows: When the power gets sick Just hit it with a brick And the little Ford will ramble right along. When she runs out of dope Just fill 'er up with soap And the little Ford will ramble right along. In March, 1913, Bosworth sold six new cars in Paris at an average price of $6oo.oo. W. Lavoie bought a five-passenger touring Reo, equipped with the latest improvements. Messrs. Whitby, Fisher, Haley, Wooden, and Anguish "each purchased the famous Ford Touring car of which there are now fourteen in town." Meanwhile, Bosworth has engaged Anguish and Son to build him a garage at 5 Broadway Street West, in which a "staff of expert mechanics" was prepared to service Reo, Russel, and Ford cars. This was not the first public garage in Paris. Two years earlier, R. C. Lee had established one in the old market-building, near where the Cenotaph now stands. In January, 1914, he opened a new garage at the entrance to the Arlington Park. In 1915, the names of new makes of cars began to appear in The Star-Transcript. Bosworth Brothers (Cyril and George), announced The progress of civilization, 1913. Dr. Daniel Duinton is at the wheil. 235

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