Word: esquimo
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...Esquimo Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) challenged Honeymoon Pie Corp. (bars of chocolate-covered ice-cream) on its right to exist. Esquimo sued for damages, alleging that Honeymoon had infringed on its 1921 patent. In Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, Federal Judge Marcus B. Campbell announced that unpatented Honeymoon pies could continue to compete with patented Esquimo pies. Explained Judge Campbell: Ice cream and candy had been coated with chocolate long before 1921 (for example, chocolate creams). In 1907, one Val Miller had written a book in which he told how to make "cannonballs," a confection differing...
This was a surprise to many a person who had believed Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, inspired. A college son of a village candy-store-keeper, he turned millionaire soon after his 1921 patent for Esquimo pies...
...Southern California. The collection contains two specimen dancing skirts of an old tribe of Klamath Indians in Northwestern California. Both skirts are ornamented with black pinonnuts, and are woven with rawhide and grass. By far the most valuable of the specimens given by Mr. Farlow, is a very old Esquimo trinket-box about two feet long...
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