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During the month sugar soared and. with it, cocoa. Metals turned firmer and rubber sold at the best levels since mid-May. Cotton moved in a narrow range but last week there began to be talk of low plant resistance to weevils because of a lack of fertilizer. Cement prices were upped last week for the first time in three years...
...schoolmaster in a dreary second-rate English school is the hero of this novel by the third of the novel-writing Gibbses. (Major Gibbs's older brothers are Sir Philip and Cosmo Hamilton.) A cup of cocoa made over a gas-jet late at night in his room, an occasional game of billiards at the Pig & Whistle and books hard scrimped for are Schoolmaster Philip Jocelyn's outlets until Millicent, slightly anemic niece of the local bookdealer, comes to help in her uncle's shop. Philip gets himself engaged to Millicent who at once takes brittle command...
Nonetheless. Son Allan had his way. One day coffee & waffles were served free to 115 people. Many of them took home a can of MacDougall coffee. A few days later waffles & coffee were again served? for a price. From then on, to the business in coffee, tea, cocoa. English, Italian and Spanish pottery and tea sets, were added waffles...
...MacDougalls opened a coffee house at No. 37 West 43rd Street. It served not only coffee, tea, cocoa and waffles, but sandwiches, complete lunches, dinners...
...into any one of the seven Alice Foote MacDougall restaurants in Manhattan or into the one in Rye, N. Y., you can buy breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sandwiches, waffles, tea, coffee, cocoa, Italian, Spanish or English pottery and tea sets, 29 flavors of preserves and jellies, nine kinds of pickles and relishes. You can look at lamps, shades, bric-a-brac, pottery, leather goods, Venetian woodenware, Holland glass, table linen. Tooth-picking is discouraged...