Trucks of this era had magnetos, a type of electric generator that aircraft sometimes still have but which automobiles have long since abandoned. The Dodge had to have its carburetor and Bosch magneto cleaned in route. The remarkable thing here is that Bosch is and was a German corporation, and therefore the Dodge was equipped with German magnetos.
A pontoon trailer was left in Ft. Omaha as too much of a strain on the Mack truck that had been towing it. And a person might wonder about the strain of nightly entertainment in nearly every town in which the convoy was now stopping in.
Elsewhere, the Anglo Irish War took a new turn with the IRA carried out its first authorized assassination. The target was a policeman. The act had been authorized by Michael Collins. It's hard not to view such acts now, a century later, as what they were, murder.
And in Germany, the German government adopted a new constitution.
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