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Died. Frank Tilford, 71, President of Park & Tilford, famed grocers; in Florida, after a long illness. He was the youngest son of John M. Tilford, who, in 1835, with the assistance of a fellow clerk, Joseph Park, left the famed grocer Benjamin Albro, to "organize a little shop of their own." Frank entered the business at an early age, succeeded Hobart J. Park in 1906 as President and Treasurer. In 1923 he sold the business to David A. Schulte, head of the Schulte Retail (Cigar) Stores...
...while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm. She had the happy faculty of making friends as easily with Ellen Terry and Rudyard Kipling as with the neighborhood grocer. Her immense audience will treasure this frank account of as vivid and diverse a career as any of her time...
...Washington, D. C., Gaspero Lucchesi, grocer, beat off an armed burglar by pelting him with pickles, pies, fruit...
...discussing the verdict, Russell Dunn, a grocer, and one of the jurors voting for acquittal, said'. "They didn't give us the dope. The prosecution didn't prove that the Communist Party advocated violence. That was the only thing we split on. We kept arguing about that until everybody got tired, but nobody changed his mind all the way through...
...speech in Boston Secretary of Labor Davis declared: "President Harding is probably the poorest advertiser in the United States today. The smallest corner grocer in Boston could undoubtedly give him a big handicap and then beat him at the game of getting himself sold to the public. This is not the time of our old and respected friend, Theodore Roosevelt, who had the faculty of letting folks know what he was doing and how fast he was doing...