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Thus did Adolf Gobel Inc. (packers) boldly capitalize the Prohibition issue last week in their advertisements in the Brooklyn Eagle, Newark News, New York Journal and Sun. Gobel's had earlier skirted the question with large spreads headed first "Give us beer," shout 20,00,000 New Yorkers, later a little more vigorously with "Banish poison booze!" But last week's prophecy or announcement was boldest of all. The excuse for it: Gobel's promised to make "a generous cash contribution to a worthy society working for Prohibition reform" for each can of Gobel's Sugar...
...Gobel advertising is handled by Benton & Bowles. Before setting out on the campaign 200 New York women were called at random on the telephone. Only seven were in favor of the 18th Amendment. That decided Benton & Bowles...
General Cigar Co. (Robert Burns, White Owl, William Penn, Laddies, Van Dyck) ?$3,366,136. Previous year, $2,562,812. Adolf Gobel, (sausages)?$408,465. Previous year...
Vulgar rhymes of this sort have long cast a quite unmerited mal-odeur upon the sausage business, and perhaps no man was more sensitive to the unfortunate effect of balladry than the late Adolf Gobel, sausage manufacturer. While recognizing, of course, that the Dunderbeck of the song was an entirely legendary figure, he could not do other than deplore the attitude of people who actually believed that when they ate liverwurst, bologna, or a bit of scampf, they were partaking of pulverized canine cadavers. Some thirty years ago this Adolf Gobel, who has done more, perhaps, for the sausage business...
...together he decided that an increasing number of sausages was going to be eaten in Brooklyn in the next thirty-five years. He started a sausage factory. The business grew to include not merely sausages but the whole line of delicatessen products. Today the name, "Adolf Gobel, Inc." on these products is an assurance of the highest excellence. Last week a Wall Street group purchased, through Hitt, Farwell and Co., the Adolf Gobel Co. for $2,500,000, reorganized it under the same name. Thus they assure themselves of an $8,000,000 yearly turnover...