Word: hecker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elmont, L. I., John Hecker went to spend the night with his friend John Jackson. Guest Hecker, to provide better light, set an oil lamp on a stove. It exploded. Host Jackson, to put out the fire, emptied a gallon jar on the flames. It contained kerosene...
When Isaac Hecker, member of a German Protestant family which grew rich in Manhattan in the grain and baking business (Hecker's Rolled Oats), was converted to Catholicism and became a priest in 1849, there was no indigenous U. S. Catholic missionary order. With the zeal of a convert. Father Hecker founded an order-the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. Today no part of the U. S. is too remote to interest Paulist Fathers and last week they had good news from Winchester, Tenn...
Last week Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc. advertising agency supplied the missing facts about Jim & Minny. In 1902 Minny Hanff, 17, a buxom Manhattan schoolgirl, began selling verses and children's stories to newspapers. When Hecker H-O Co., makers of Force, held an advertising contest, Minny conceived the character of Sunny Jim, submitted jingles about him. The company paid her $100 for the idea, ordered more verses. Minny got her friend Dorothy Ficken, 16, to draw pictures of Sunny Jim. For a year they were kept busy. Then, to carry out a $1,000,000 advertising program, artists...
...Lately Hecker H-O Co. engaged Erwin, Wasey to revive Force. Vice President Owen Burtch Winters of the agency thought it would be good publicity to revive also Sunny Jim and Minny. Although it was known that Miss Hanff married Raymond Fuller Ayers, children's page editor of the New York Herald, in 1903, efforts to locate her failed. The "agony column" jingle was written. Few days before the jingle was to appear, a new Manhattan directory was issued. There was the name of Mrs. Minny Ayers. But the idea of advertising was so pleasing, Erwin, Wasey inserted...