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Miss Sutter, now 35, was once a Pennsylvania school teacher.* She entered the Prohibition Bureau in 1922 when Roy Asa Haynes, a "loan" from the Anti-Saloon League, was its director. Mr. Haynes. zealot, yearned to-"sell" Prohibition to the country by direct advertising, by special school courses. Miss Sutter shared his ardor but it was not until this year that Congress supplied wherewithal for the experiment. She had prepared a mass of Dry material which she was to take to the National Education Association's meeting last week in Atlanta when, a little prematurely, she revealed her purpose...
Thus when Asa Griggs Candler, onetime (1889-1919) Coca-Cola King died last week in a hospital which he had founded overlooking a university which he had endowed, the company which he had so long managed belonged unquestionably to U. S. Big Business. During 1928, Coca-Cola showed a net of $10,189,000, an earning of $10.19 per share. At 105,000 soda fountains U.S. citizens were saying "Give me a Coca-Cola." At 600,000 retail outlets the corrugated little Coca-Cola bottle was being dispensed. Thirsty wayfarers in the U. S. and in 75 foreign countries consumed...
...textile man and banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler. Funeral obsequies will be observed at his late residence, 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue, at 11 in the forenoon on . Interment will be at West View, private. H. M. Patterson and son in charge...
...three years ago, wrote Asa G. Candler, composing his own funeral notice with blank dates that last week were filled in. Precise, meticulous, he also left instructions that he should be buried in full dress. He was 77; he died after two years of illness following the paralytic stroke from which he never recovered...
...Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta...