Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University has been removed from the slot-machine and vending business in which it was placed under the terms of Artemus Ward's will, filed last March, in which the late Artemus Ward bequeathed to Harvard the business of Artemus Ward Inc. The advertising company, which controls the merchandising and newsstand privileges of the Inter borough Transit Company, has recently been purchased by Barron G. Collier...
...business of Artemus Ward, Inc., was valued at between two and three million dollars at the time of the bequest. The amount which will fall to the University through the sale of the company has not been made known...
...Artemus Ward, Ino, has controlled since 1899 the advertising and vending concessions of the Inter borough lines. Mr. Coller's purchase includes the Listerated Gum Corporation, the Ideals Chocolate Corporation and other subsidiaries...
...sale of the Artemus Ward Company follows close upon the announcement that the advertising company of which Barron Collier is president outbid the Artemus Ward Company for the Inter borough Lines advertising and vending nights. The terms of the contract provided a minimum payment for these rights of $30,090,000. The sum is to be divided over a period of 18 years...
...least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...