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...Food companies held up well. General Foods (Postum, Log Cabin Syrup, Cheek-Neal Coffee, Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...
...Beech-Nut Packing...
...Later Beech Hargis shot & killed his father, James Hargis, was imprisoned, paroled. He broke parole, escaped the officers escorting him back to the penitentiary, has never since been heard...
Died. William James Arkell, 74, onetime owner of Judge and Leslie's Weekly, which he sold in 1905, founder of George Washington Coffee Co., turf man, brother of President Bartlett Arkell of Beech-Nut Packing Co.; in Los Angeles. Legend is that he once staked Leslie's Weekly against $150,000 on one of his horses...
...Beech-Nut Packing...