This category contains 13 articles I believe are from 1905. There is a biographical profile and several references to his famous Green Dragon race car. Two more articles reference Barney Oldfield’s long time manager, Ernie Moross. Moross later became the director of contests at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909.

"Faster Than a Man Can Think"

These articles from the Oldfield scrapbook may be from 1906 - I continue to try to source them. There are two artilces in this package, one that profiles Barney Oldfield and another that interviews his manager, Ernie Moross. In the Oldfield profile an unnamed University of Chicago Professor is referenced as saying that a speed of a "mile-a-minute" (60 mph) is faster than a man can think.
Oldfield "Retires" for the First Time

This article provides interesting insights to Oldfield's outlook on his career and even his inner fears. He confesses to "losing his nerve," and wanting to retire. Oldfield "retired" many times during a driving career that spanned from 1902 to 1919. For Oldfield, the primary objective was to earn money and assert his position in society on his own terms.
 

These files are a mix of events from different points in Barney Oldfield's career.

Christie Defeats Oldfield, De Palma

This collection offers two partial articles (the jumps are missing) on the 1908 Minneapolis - St. Paul race meet discussed elsewhere on this site. This is very early in Ralph De Palma's career as he is driving the car (Allen - Kingston) that was his first big break in auto racing. Barney Oldfield and J. Walter Christie staged several barnstorming events in 1908.
Oldfield Takes Manufacturer's Challenge Cup

This is a must read article for historians of early auto racing.
 

This race meet was run in September 1916, never to be repeated. The collection contains the best assortment of articles on this event you’ll find anywhere, with coverage from Indianapolis newspapers and the automobile trade press. The biggest star of the meet was Johnny Aitken, who won all three races in his Peugeot. Eddie Rickenbacker in his Maxwell was a threat, as well as Howdy Wilcox (Premier) and Hughie Hughes (Hoskins Special) gave Aitken stiff competition. Aitken battled with Dario Resta all season long the AAA's first major points championship. Resta finally took the championship late in the year at the American Grand Prize road race in Santa Monica.

"The Automobile" Coverage - Aitken Dominates

This is coverage of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's September 9, 1916 "Harvest Classic." This content provides a full table of results for all three events of 20, 50 and 100 miles. Johnny Aitken won all three, but had to fight off tough competition primarily from Hughie Hughes and Eddie Rickenbacker. The article was published in their September 14 edition.
Injured Driver Rooney a Spectator

This September 10, 1916 Indianapolis Star coverage of the Harvest Classic focuses on Johnny Aitken's dramatic victory in the 100 mile feature of the race meet. Aitken had one of the steering arms on his Peugeot break, slowing his pace tremendously. He would have lost the event had leader Eddie Rickenbacker not had a wheel collapse in the Northwest turn. An interesting image is associated with the story showing driver Tom Rooney still recovering from a broken leg watching the races with his wife from the stands.
Cincinnati Speedway Race

This article is pre-race coverage of the 300-mile race at the new Cincinnati Speedway board track staged the week before the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's Harvest Classic. Johnny Aitken won this major contest as well.
Harvest Classic 20-Mile Race

This article appeared in the Indianapolis News on September 9, 1916. The News was Indianapolis' evening paper, and served the purpose of giving events news coverage on the same day they occurred - except that deadline was early afternoon in order to be distributed in time for the evening commute home from the office. As a result, an event like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's September 9, 1916 race meet was not fully complete by the time the paper was distributed.
De Palma, Chevrolet Entered

This article was published September 7, 1916 and summarized entries for the September 9 Harvest Classic at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Two of the more prominent names were Ralph De Palma (Peugeot) and Louis Chevrolet (Sunbeam). De Plama's entry was significant because he missed the May Indianapolis 500 (in 1916 the "500" was scheduled for only 300 miles) when he played games with Speedway management in negotiating for appearance money as the defending champion.
"Motor Age" Harvest Classic Coverage

This article about the Harvest Classic was originally published in Motor Age in the September 14, 1916 edition. Excellent coverage supplemented by several tables of finishing order, drivers, equipment and even times and speeds. Lots of good color commentary about Eddie Rickenbacker (back before he changed his name from Rickenbacher), Johnny Aitken, Ralph De Palma and driver Tom Rooney who watched from the stands, still mending a leg broken in the Brickyard's Memorial Day Classic.