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The Gillette Safety Razor Co. prints on the tasteful green wrappers of its blades, besides a handsome portrait of King C. Gillette, the words "NO STROPPING NO HONING." Timid users of Gillette blades, especially women, think these words are a command, forbidding the shaver ever to have a Gillette blade...
On the Gillette blades themselves, all doubt is dispelled. There the Gillette Co. abruptly says: . "Not to be resharpened." Nevertheless a certain bold percentage of Gillette users frequently have their blades honed and stropped, or do it themselves on machines made especially for that purpose.*
There is another legend on the Gillette blade wrappers, the last and smallest line of all. It needs no emphasis nor interpretation, being firm and final. It says: "Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." The company needs hardly worry for feat purchasers will defy those words.
Yet last week, detectives who followed an automobile from Irvington, N. J., † to Newark, where the men in it passed several packages to a woman in a window in a mean street; and police who later raided the so-called Peerless Blade Corporation's factory in Irvington, found...
As days passed, less was heard about draft, more about miscellaneous candidacies. Thus, U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillette, a Republican, of the inner Massachusetts set, pointed to Charles Evans Hughes as his first choice, to Herbert Hoover as his second.