Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago Sept. 1, 1923 Purchasers of secondhand motor cars, especially purchasers of Ford machines, are warned to bring the car to police headquarters for inspection before the deal is made. The police are willing to look up the records of any second hand car, and will " fingerprint " cars the histories of which seem obscure, thus eliminating possibility of the transfer of stolen property. Charles Conway jr., 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conway of Ashtabula, O., was instantly electrocuted yesterday when he touched a trolley wire of the Joplin & Pittsburg Co., while playing on a box car on the Allegheny Western mine switch near Waco, Mo.