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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