100 YEARS AGOThursday, June 23, 1921from the Gloucester Gazette
Mr. Walter Ware, who sells Fords when he can’t persuade a prospect to buy an Overland, pulled off a new advertising stunt last Thursday. He had a new Ford on the street and stopped for a minute at the drug store to wash the dust out of his throat. He left the engine running and the hand brake up. Lizzie got tired of waiting for Walter and somehow managed to release the brake and started down the street on her own. She climbed a little tree on the court green and ambled serenely down the sidewalk, most carefully avoiding the iron fence and two other automobiles, but evidently being offended at the dingy appearance of the Gazette editor’s battered car, gave it a wallop, moved it ten feet out of her path and proceeded on. The collision took some of the vim and vigor out of the saucy little minx, however, and after executing a few fancy steps in the roadway she stopped, evidently satisfied with the day’s work. The new Lizzie w...