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...coffee merchant husband dead and three children on her hands, she bought 100 Ib. of coffee from friends on credit, roasted it, sold it to other friends at 75% profit. In seven years she had put the children through school. To the coffee business she had added tea and cocoa...
Curly Son Allan went to War; Widow MacDougall did War work at home. In 1919 Allan returned to home and business; mother & son opened a shop in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. In addition to coffee, tea & cocoa they sold Spanish, Italian and English pottery and tea sets...
Business has not been too good for Hershey Chocolate Corp. During the first nine months of 1931 its sales of chocolate bars (plain and nutty), of chocolate kisses, , cocoa, candy coating chocolate syrup and Cocoa-Milk beverage, were around 25% less than during the same period of 1930. The figures were $23,459,130 against $29,851,069. Nor has the cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join...
After his long devotions Laborer Talbot would go about his long day's work. His free time he spent in further prayer; Sundays he knelt at all the morning masses, and returned for afternoon and evening devotions. Cocoa, tea, bread comprised his diet. If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting. His charities were even more secret than his pious practices. He managed to subsist on six shillings ($1.50) a week before the War, ten shillings after. The rest of his small wages went to the poor, to a Chinese mission and to the training...
Other commodities to share in the jubilation included rubber, coffee, cocoa, wool tops, hides. Sugar failed to advance, however, and hogs continued in a rut. Mid-Continent oil prices rose 15^ a barrel to 85^; in many sections of the country gasoline was upped...