Valparaiso Porter County Vidette, Thursday, 11 May, 1899
GIVE THE ROAD.
There are still living some people who think they do not have to turn out and let other people pass them when driving on the public highways. About as mean a man as ever lived is the man who holds his team in the middle of a narrow road, drives slow and refuses to turn out to let some one who wishes to drive faster get past him. The courts of several states have decided that a man has no right to obstruct a highway by slow driving or otherwise, and must when practicable, turn out. If in refusing to turn, an accident occurs to a man attempting to get past, he (the obstructor) is liable for damages.
'Too bad this law is long gone. What's more, the concepts of safe-driving from the era I learned to drive, thirty years ago, have been replaced by the anti-science blather of today, which has made our highways much more dangerous and much less efficient than in the past, while they could be made much quicker and safer along with the rest of our lives. Thanks, politicians, for catering to the lowest-common-denominator. The blood of thousands is on your hands, not to mention the billions of dollars stolen from us in wasted time.
Hobart News, Thursday, 6 November, 1913
There still seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the rule of vehicles passing an automobile on the road, as to which side of the road to take, and accidents are resulting on account of it. It is a very easy matter to make yourself clear on this when you firmly stick to the rule that the vehicle keeps to the right when passing or being passed by an automobile and the automobile driver keeps to the left in either case. This is the law. Automobile to the left, vehicle to the right, always, remember.
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Chesterton Tribune, Friday, 17 June, 1904
We have heard of dog catchers, rat catchers, cow catchers and many other kinds of catchers but the one that would be of most benefit to farmers and a blessing to nearly all citizens would be an automobile catcher. Some kind of a contrivance that would catch those reckless city cusses who have no respect for human beings when they go thundering along the roads. There are some automobilists who have plenty of common decency and a fair regard for the welfare of others, but there are others again who have as little regard for the average person's rights and respect as one would have for a criminal. Some day the farmers will take the government of this matter in their own hands and the automobilist will be sorry.--Hobart Gazette.
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