Etc. -- Mr. Lea's Automachine
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An unedited transcription of a page 1 article from 2 May 1912 Simcoe Reformer.

One Sunday a party of four made a quick run from Detroit to Simcoe, in a new automachine.

Mr. George White had sold an E.M.F. car to Mr. J. Harry Lea, formerly of Chicago but now coming to Woodhouse to live, and these gentlemen, accompanied by Mrs. White and Mr. Frank Ryerse, went up to personally steer the purchase home. 

They left Windsor at 6.15 in the morning, and ran the first fifty miles without meeting a soul. It was too early for souls to be out. 

Another twenty-five miles, and the enormous appetites developed by a spin in the crisp morning air induced them to stop at Blenheim for breakfast. Blenheim is a serene little no-license town, and they were all painfully sober when they tore themselves away from it.

Sixty-five miles down the line they got desperately hungry, and as it began to be St. Thomas they halted and ate four big dinners. The sky had threatened rain, but took no active steps to round up any down-pours. A further thirty-five miles of joying, and Tillsonburg was reached, where the party rested for an hour and a half, and reviewed the trip so far with considerable satisfaction. 

True, it had been uneventful. They hadn't scared any horses, and they had only run over one person, and that was a goose, and they wouldn't have had the luck to do that, had it not been for the happy tendency of geese and hens and such feathered stuff to cut across the bows of vehicles that venture to contest the right of way with them. So Goose received the blow on a small but highly essential segment of her anatomy, to wit, her neck, and became an also-ran.

At Tillsonburg the party was augmented by Mrs. Lea and daughter, and they took the road on the last lap into Simcoe, which was twenty-five miles. The car discharged its [occupants] at six o'clock, after a run of 200 miles without a hitch (there's no hitching to a horseless hook wagon), having averaged twenty miles an hour.

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