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- Anaconda Standard, Montana, Sunday, August 24, 1919
But One Puncture In Long Journey
Mr. and Mrs. Bessette Make Long Trip in Cadillac Without Trouble
A 4,800 mile journey with but one puncture is the record of Charles Bessette and family, who drove a Cadillac car to New York and Boston and back as far as Detroit. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Bessette, C.H. Bessette, who drove the machine, and two children.
The car stood the journey remarkably well and was left at Detroit to be shipped back because of the hurry of the pleasure-seekers to return to Butte. In making the trip Mr. and Mrs. Bessette passed through 14 states and two Canadian provinces. They rode 1,200 miles by boat, 5,000 by rail and the rest by automobile. They left Butte June 11 and returned within less than three months.
Mr. Bessette said that the cost of living was much higher in the East than it is here. He spent a short time visiting in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. He added that prices there were from 25 to 50 per cent more than in the East.
βI would never make such a trip in any car but a Cadillac,β said Mr. Bessette. βIt made the long journey in great fashion and we had but little trouble. Other machines may have more picturesque lines but none are more substantial and none give more service than the Cadillac.β
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