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REO 1905
    "If you want to feel the sensation of flying without wings, to feel the fresh air driven into your lungs, and every artery pulsating with new life—the real joy of living—get an automobile.
The auto has ceased to be the plaything for the rich only.  It has become a thing of practical utility and pleasure for the man of moderate means. It is indeed a small place where the local physician or man of business does not use a light runabout for his daily trips.

The automobile, in the first place, is much safer than any horse that was ever driven. It is true that it did not make that reputa­tion during the early years of its ex­istence, but it is true to-day. It has no temper, except that of its driver, and be can usually agree with himself.  It has no whims to be coddled, nor must one get out and hold its head at country crossings when the "iron horse" goes by. While one is getting the exhilarating pleasure of a quick dash on a good road, he has at the same time more control over his ve­hicle than he would have over an old horse that is likely to become suddenly youthful when you are trying to get him by another team, with a steep bank on one side and a ten foot gully on the other.
To the business man living in the suburbs, the automobile has become indispensable, and he would no sooner think of giving it zip than he would his business itself. Probably no one thing has contributed to the present trend of the city dweller to seek not only the suburbs for a home, but even the country itself, as the automobile. 
  The machines of the present day are all built on comparatively simple lines, so that a man, with a little instruction, can be his own mechanic and do his own repairing on the road. A certain machine was built in the early days of the horseless carriage. It had twenty-six cranks! Two and three are today a fair average.

   Could there be anything stronger or simpler in con­struction than the Oldsmobile runabout? Everything is within easy reach of the driver, and the start is made from the seat. This is one of the most perfect of the light cars, and it could be no better if it cost $6,500, instead of $650. It has held its own in this particular line for the last five years. At one filling it is good for a hundred miles of road, and it can be speeded up to twenty-five miles an hour, with no danger to car or occupant. It is built for general use about town, and, although not posing as a touring car, it has gone every place that a touring car has gone, and last year it won the great hill climbing contest at Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire. The machine was in as good order at the top as when it started, and the owner used it for his long homeward journey.
This brings up another advantage of the horseless carriage. You do not have to worry over the size of every hill on the road, for fear that your horse will have a bad case of the heaves be­fore your journey's end; neither do you have to stop to let him recuperate after every bad stretch of road. You can turn on the crank with a clear conscience, and the automatic horse gets there at good speed.
The automobile has settled down to certain specified forms, and we see little of the freak cars of a few years ago. Starting with the light runabout for general town and country use, there comes next the light touring car built for two persons. Some have a seat to let down in front, to accommodate two more. This car will go any place the larger touring cars will go, perhaps more. It can turn on any country road to which a horse and buggy can be driven. Next, we have the regular tour­ing Tonneau, with seats for four people. Fitted with large baskets at the sides, it becomes the owner's travel­ing hotel. In it, he roams the country at will, seeking the most beautiful and picturesque spots that are always just away from the railroads, and, were it not for the automobile, would be seldom visited. Further up the list, we find the touring cars that seat five and six.  
   About the largest car made is the one pictured on the cover of this week's issue of THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, the famous "rubber-neck car," as the New Yorkers call it.  It holds about forty-six people, and is used for personally-conducted tours about New York City. It is always an interesting sight, even to the regular inhabi­tant of the town of sky-scrapers, and he seldom fails to turn and watch it pass with its jolly crowd of passengers. ......."
Cadillac 1905
Article source: is from a 1905 article of possibly, The Christian Herald.