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Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as...
PAUL A. CHILDS Detroit, Mich.
Meat-loving patrons, profit-loving stockholders, encompassed the downfall, last week, of the "Vegetable-wise" policy of the Childs Co. Devoted to vegetarianism, President William Childs had offered patrons of his 120 restaurants every conceivable substitute for meat. He had invoked the experience of the heroic Greeks, meat-haters. Statistics...
Early and exuberant were the mid-year statements of Big Business. U. S. corporations listened skeptically to gloomy prophecies of the end of "Coolidge prosperity," then announced record sales, new high profits. Chain stores declared June sales of $123,239,775, an increase of 21.6% over June, 1927, while their...
*She will be 24 on Aug. 10. No girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later...