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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...
...Candler who originated Coca-Cola. Its inventor was one J. S. Pemberton, who, in 1886, made the first Coca-Cola in an old house on Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. During its first year Coca-Cola sold only 25 gallons and had for its outlets only Atlanta's three soda fountains. In 1889, however, Mr. Candler purchased an interest in the company (reputedly for $500) started to put Coca-Cola over in a large way. So successful was he that in 1919 the company was sold for $25,000,000, was organized as a Delaware corporation. The present management took...
...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...
Died. Major Asa Warren Candler, Atlanta lawyer, nephew of Coca Cola Tycoon Asa G. Candler; in Atlanta...