July 1904

The Warner company put its automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter, on the market.

Meanwhile, closer to home

PropertySeptember 8, 1904

An interurban car ran into a cow on the curve just below Yost's Park at about half-past seven in the morning, near Miles Fenn's farmhouse.

PropertySeptember 18, 1904

The Janesville local baseball team was scheduled to meet the Rockford Three I leaguers at Yost's park on the Sunday following the September 16 announcements.

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BeloitJuly 1904

The Warner company put its automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter, on the market.

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

It began in some experimental lines by the Warner brothers on their own invention, and did but little for the first six months or a year. In July, 1904, it put upon the market its well known automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter. Its sales from the first rapidly increased until now this company is the largest manufacturer of speed indicators in the world and is recognized as the standard speed indicator on the market.

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 2, PDF p. 111 / book p. 621

1904 / July

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July 1904

The Warner company put its automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter, on the market.

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The evidence

BeloitJuly 1904

The Warner company put its automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter, on the market.

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

It began in some experimental lines by the Warner brothers on their own invention, and did but little for the first six months or a year. In July, 1904, it put upon the market its well known automobile indicator, the Auto-Meter. Its sales from the first rapidly increased until now this company is the largest manufacturer of speed indicators in the world and is recognized as the standard speed indicator on the market.