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Edgefield Man Fatally Struck by Electric Car in Akron, Skull Crushed

An electric car fatally struck an Edgefield, Ohio man in 1904. I’m posting this here because we seem to forget that early cars were electric…

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Fast Cars Cause Lunacy

Think you have heard it all? Guess again. According to the head doctors in the early 1900s, dodging fast moving cars could give the nerves…

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Auto Speeders To Be Examined For Sanity

Caught speeding? Maybe you are suffering from a mental disorder. In 1922, a judge decided to have all people sent to his court for speeding…

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