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Emulsion Sold. For almost 70 years famed Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil) has been made by Scott & Bowne Inc. of Bloomfield, N. J. Last week Scott's Emulsion was sold to Harold F. Ritchie of Toronto and F. M. Shoemaker of Elmira, N. Y. The Ritchie-Shoemaker combination already owns the Pompeian facial cream company (bought last year from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.) and controls International Proprietaries, Ltd., maker of Eno's Fruit Salt, morning-after tonic...
...authority in the U. S., Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College. Dr. Mab-bott was enthusiastic, authenticated the signatures, referred to a landscape by Poe in the Poe cottage at Richmond, quoted a letter from Poe to his mother to prove the existence of the picture of Sarah Elmira Shelton...
...told Elmira when I first came here, that I had one of the pencil-sketches of her that I took a long while ago in Richmond; and I told her that I would write to you about...
Hugo N. Frye of Elmira, N. Y. To a Frye dinner at Ithaca they invited Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy, Republican National Committee Chairman Claudius Hart Huston, many another famed Republican. Because they knew their guests' knowledge of local history was not so good as their own, the Cornell editors obligingly identified Mr. Frye in their invitations as follows...
Vice President Curtis: "I read with pleasure your intention to give a dinner honoring the memory of Hugo N. Frye, pioneer Republican of Elmira. . . . I congratulate the Republicans on paying this respect to the memory of Frye and wish you a most successful occasion...