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...brown paper package told smokers that they could not smoke Cellophane. In June arrived the fourth national 10? cigaret- Twenty Grand, also from Louisville. Its sales soon passed those of White Rolls and Paul Jones, ran the ten-centers percentage up to 15. Last week that percentage was 20. Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. was making 18 million Twenty Grands a day, with unfilled orders piled high. Wings were rolling out of the machines at the rate of 50 million per day. White Rolls and Paul Jones were still selling well. These four brands had taken advantage of cheap tobacco...
Revenge. Most colorful of the 10?-cigaret men are President Reed of Larus & Brother (White Rolls) and Woodford Fitch Axton, burly president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. (Twenty Grand). Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents...
...Woodford Axton was selling groceries around eastern Kentucky when, in 1899, a debtor paid him in tobacco-preparing machinery. The debt was $60. Salesman Axton decided to sell tobacco instead of food, began peddling his product from town to town. Soon the trust was after him, too, giving away tobacco to his customers when he refused to sell out. Big and hearty, "Wood"' Axton had enough friends to stay in business. He formed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. with a partner, George H. Fisher, now dead. They moved from Owensboro to Louisville and began selling smoking and chewing tobaccos throughout...
...anxious to be rid of him because he had agitated for higher rank for his comrades in arms and prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund...
...Naval Academy. This plot was dug open last week to receive a casket from Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, containing the body of onetime (1921-25) U. S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks, who died July 12, 1926. Chief of Chaplains of the Army John T. Axton (see p. 11) read the committal service...