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Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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  1. Kolohe says:
    March 6, 2023 at 9:35 am

    I believe this is the mid 1910’s, and a new Model T was around 500 dollars by then

    https://www.fordmodelt.net/model-t-ford-prices.htmReport

    • Michael Cain in reply to Kolohe says:
      March 6, 2023 at 9:55 am

      Yeah, but the car in the comic is not a Model T. Much closer to one of the sports cars or even race cars of that era. Note the narrowness, with a single-person cockpit. No visible back seat. Lack of headlights of any sort. Closed, relatively streamlined body aside from that radiator grill. Purchase price almost certainly somewhere between several and many thousands of dollars. Today the equivalent statement would be like, “The repair bill on my Ferrari was almost enough to buy a basic Honda Civic.”

      More interesting to me is that the local garage owner is supposedly qualified to work on such a vehicle.Report

      • Kolohe in reply to Michael Cain says:
        March 6, 2023 at 4:01 pm

        just ruminating, it seems likely to me that this was the era that a dedicated hobbyists could still do just about anything with just about any car – and were still a signicant portion of those that had and used automobiles. similar how there were similar eras for radios and personal computers.Report

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