Word: armours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Insull, public utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...
...Younger Mitchells, the most famed is gay and debonair John J. Mitchell Jr. His marriage to Lolita Armour, meatpacker's heiress, thrilled society in the U. S. & Europe. This Armour connection assumed possible importance when Chicagoans recalled that the name of Philip D. Armour heads the list of directors of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., whose stock, like that of Illinois Trust, has been skyrocketing. Close are the ties which bind the Armour interests and Continental. President Arthur Reynolds of Continental is also a director and member of the finance committee of Armour...
...these three facts-the rising bank stocks, the Lindbergh flight, the Mitchell-Armour alliance-it was possible to construct an arresting theory...
Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
Frozen Eggs. Into mighty, meatpacking Armour & Co., there strayed last week the H. J. Keith Co. of Boston, dealers in dried and frozen eggs. Also into the Armour fold came a large interest in Amos Bird Co. of Shanghai, Chinese egg product concern. To become a power in the frozen egg market, Armour & Co. paid...