This important announcement is made by the Gargantua Company with a full realization of its significance. We realize that we are creating a new thing in trucks.
The Gargantua combines all the qualities of the truck with the conveniences of a Fall River boat. Its transmission system has been called "The Queen of Transmissions." The efficacy of its bull-pinions in the tractor attachment has been the subject of enthusiastic praise from bull-pinion experts on all continents.
The Gargantua is the result of a dream. Henry L. McFern (now president of the Gargantua Co.), was the dreamer. Mr. McFern wanted something that would revolutionize the truck business, and yet still be a truck. He gave it the thought of all his waking hours. His friends called him a "dreamer," but Henry McFern only smiled. When first he brought out the model of the Gargantua it was called "McFern's Folly," but Henry McFern only smiled the more. And when the time came for the test, it was seen that the "dreamer" of South Bend had given the world a new Idea.
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of a man of the world to-day. He knew that women were strange creatures, for this popular superstition reaches even to the recesses of the most exclusive of male retreats, but further than that he was uninformed. He had, it is true, like many another young man, felt the influence of certain pairs of blue eyes
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I AM THE STRENGTH OF AGES
¶I have sprung from the depths of the hills.
¶Before the rivers were brought forth, or even before the green leaves in their softness made the landscape, I was your servant.
¶From the bowels of the earth, where men toil in darknesss, I come, bringing a message of insuperable strength.