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...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...
...lover of the spotlight is Harrison Williams, though he gave evidence last week of having grown as much in poise as in fortune since the day in 1890 when he forgot his graduation speech at the high school in Elyria, Ohio. Young Harry's penmanship got him his first job as a bookkeeper. By the late 18903 he was in business for himself, making bicycles. At 30 he had had enough of Elyria, sold out, headed for the cold shadows of Wall Street to begin his real career. In 1906 he took a hand in splicing a group...
...Manhattan, Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, arrived from Elyria,Ohio, to perform her "favorite chore," that of "Hymen's assistant." Countess Eugenie Zicha of Prague had also arrived in Manhattan. So had Jacob Miller of Ontario and Theodore Kabelac of Philadelphia who eyed each other coldly, were united only in eagerness to meet the Countess. Fairly bubbling with excitement, roly-poly Mrs. Stull toddled about her hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with...
...Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December, 1833, received its charter in 1834, first...
...automobile's other passengers, he said, were Cleveland gunmen who had been taking him for a "ride." They had got into the wrong lane, made a sudden turn and debouched upon the teeming, angry. Cherry Ridge fairways. Grateful Mr. Myda was sent away to a hospital. Elyria's growling linksmen returned to their games...