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Cartoonist Billy De Beck never donned baggy trousers and a putty nose to exhibit himself as Barney Google. Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...
Having elected its Governors last week, the Tobacco Exchange announced that the trading floor at No. 90 Broad will open Sept. 19. Prime movers behind the latest addition to the lengthening list of commodity futures markets are President John Wesley Hanes, senior partner in Chas. D. Barney & Co., and First Vice President John L. Julian of Fenner & Beane. President Hanes may be a stockbroker by trade but he is a tobacco man by birth. His father helped found a big Winston-Salem tobacco company which was merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny...
...November 1902 Barney Oldfield was a brisk young sport who had made a fair reputation as a bicycle racer and just got a job with Henry Ford. When Ford perfected the automobile named 999, which he thought might become the first in history to go a mile a minute, he set about to select a driver for a five-mile race. Barney Oldfield had never driven a car, only ridden in one twice, but he asked for a chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile...
Fifty-five, fat, still recognizable by his cigar, Barney Oldfield last week engaged in his first race in 16 years, an absurd "Jinx Derby" to advertise the Chrysler exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress, where Oldfield heads a staff of 20 exhibition drivers. Oldest car in the race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver...
...shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels sold by the thousand. The Macy advertisement was the first of its kind in Manhattan, the first anywhere in rotogravure. The idea was first introduced into newspaper advertising last spring in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. That the Macy advertisement would be the last in the U. S. for a long time seemed likely last week when the Post Office Department invoked an old regulation against attaching any merchandise to copies of a publication using second-class mail rates. Even if samples were carried...