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I reached Detroit with 50 cents…
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I spent 25 cents to have an aching tooth pulled out.
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[On bicycle lessons] You can learn at the rink without publicity…
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Builders of simple, compound, triple and quadruple expansion marine and stationary engines.
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We… build and repair any kind of machinery…
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We understand that you have no repair facilities in Windsor…
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We would respectfully call your attention to the superior facilities that we possess…
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The superior facilities that we possess for doing all kinds of machine repair work.
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We are prepared to do any class of work that can be done in a first-class modern shop.
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Linotype machines repaired skillfully and promptly.
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We would be obliged for a prompt settlement…
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We have found it necessary to establish a rule that no one by the name of DODGE be given employment in our factory.
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While you will not think it is much of a reason, it really has caused us considerable annoyance…
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Two members of the Dodge family are all that the firm should be burdened with.
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We are certainly not well pleased with the way you have handled this job…
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Submit us a price on 200 sandwiches and 200 bottles of beer to be delivered every working day…
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200 bottles of beer to be delivered every working day, ice cold, to our Forge Plant about 9:30am…
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I’ll buy a round for the house…
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You men who ought to be working better get back.
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The Dodge Brothers, America’s premier builder of automobile engines and components…
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Build a new automobile bearing the Dodge Brothers’ marque.
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I drove a cow three miles twice a day for 50 cents a week…
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I… was mighty glad when pay day came.
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The war would be a h*ll of a lot better off…
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Do you want this job or don’t you?
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Take the materials that you actually need, that you can use, not taking stuff and storing it up…
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Not taking stuff and storing it up that wouldn’t be shipped in five years…
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We believe there will be plenty to keep us going.
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We were born out on North Fifth Street in a little wooden cottage, close to where your standpipe is located. In those days we were the most destitute kids in the town. Poor mother, how she used to worry about her boys. I am three years older than my brother and naturally mother always confided her trouble in me. When cold weather came and H. E. and myself were obliged to go barefooted and wear ragged clothes, we didn’t grumble, but tried to make mother think it was all right.
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[In August 1913 giving a gift of $100,000 to the city of Niles to build a park honouring their parents] This amount sounds big but really is nothing to us now. H. E. and myself are worth $50 million and we have made the most of it in the last 10 years. We want to do something for Niles right away and I had suggested a donation of $100,000. We will double this amount if your citizens will advance a judicial manner in which it can be spent. [But the city of Niles rejected the gift after its members questioned the need for a park and determined that the city might have to spend money to maintain it.]
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[On being told there was only a job for one of them] We’re brothers and we always work together; if you haven’t got room for two of us, neither of us will start. That’s that!
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[On providing bicycle riding lessons free for E. & D. Bicycle owners and $2.00 for all others for five lessons] You can learn at the rink without publicity and under the instruction of capable instructors.
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[On founding Dodge Bros] Builders of simple, compound, triple and quadruple expansion marine and stationary engines. We also build and repair any kind of machinery, do all kinds of difficult punch, die and tool work; do internal, external and surface grinding, milling, gear cutting, and punch press work; in short, we are prepared to do any class of work that can be done in a first-class modern shop. Linotype machines repaired skillfully and promptly.
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[On 26 March 1901 to F. F. Whitney, the general foreman of the Wabash Railway in Ontario] As we understand that you have no repair facilities in Windsor, we would respectfully call your attention to the superior facilities that we possess for doing all kinds of machine repair work.
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Trusting that when you receive inquiries for steam launches you will give us a chance to bid on the machinery.
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[In July 1901 to various newspapers with outstanding bills] Gentlemen: As we have disposed of our interests in the Typograph (Company), we would be obliged for a prompt settlement of the above.
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[In October 1901] We have been asked to figure on a quantity of Automobile Transmission Gears.
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[On routinely working until midnight in their business] During the two years we occupied the Boydell Building, I spent a total of only six weekday evenings at home.
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[On Kahn’s failure to get the blacksmith shop completed when the weather was good] We are certainly not well pleased with the way you have handled this job and we must insist that our work be given more attention.
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[In November 1913 on being passed on a letter from James Couzens a director at the Ford Motor Company for Frank Dodge (no relation)] I should very much like to do something for this young man, but we have found it necessary to establish a rule that no one by the name of DODGE be given employment in our factory. We have had two or three cases and have always had a bad experience in each case. While you will not think it is much of a reason, it really has caused us considerable annoyance and we have decided that two members of the Dodge family are all that the firm should be burdened with.
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