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THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



Miniature Automobiles Racing Around a Diminutive Track Form the 

 Attractive Show Window Display of a Western Tire Dealer. 



A RACE TRACK ON A MOTOR TIRE 



With a large tire for the race track, a 

 couple of miniature "speed devils" were 

 sent around and around the show-win- 



dow of a Houston, 

 Texas, tire dealer. The 

 little machines were op- 

 erated by an electric 

 motor in the center of 

 the race course, which 

 was quite invisible, and 

 the wires that connected 

 with the little automo- 

 biles were concealed by 

 the high artificial grass. 

 The window attracted a 

 great deal of attention, 

 as a crowd is always 

 held by a moving dis- 

 play. The window was 

 arranged thus for the 

 holiday season, and the 

 car ahead bore the number of the 

 old year while the pursuing machine 

 bore that of the new year, the idea being 

 that the New Year was chasing out the 

 Old. 



MACHINE SEWS COMFORTERS BY 

 INTRICATE COGS 



A machine which has the cumber- 

 some appearance of a 

 huge drill press yet the 

 delicacy of adjustment of 

 a jeweler's lathe is em- 

 ployed by a New York 

 manufacturer for sewing 

 the various layers of cot- 

 ton comforters together. 

 The machine runs by 

 electricity, and the design 

 to be made on the com- 

 forter is controlled by a 

 long steel arm which 

 reaches to the floor. At 

 its lower end is a cog 

 which intermeshes with a 

 "cog track" running in 

 waves and loops over the 

 floor and under the ma- 

 chines. As the comfor- 

 ter moves under the nee- 



dle, the path of the needle is directed 

 by the curious windings of the cog 

 track on the floor. The cog track may 

 be altered at will to suit the requirements. 



By Means of an Intricate Cog Track on the Floor, this Sewing Machine 

 is Guided in Sewing Comforter Layers Together. 



