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...places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William: opened "William Ford Tractor Sales" when Henry began manufacturing tractors, prospered selling tractors and farm implements, ten years ago moved to larger quarters in Highland Park, employed 40 men. Present Economic Status: Henry: not worth so much as he once was, but still worth so many hundred millions that a regiment of unemployed accountants would find work figuring out how many. William : a petitioner in bankruptcy ; the liabilities of his company $412,900; its assets...
Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...
Other able performers included: ¶Sweden's Lieut. Sachs who, after his mount fell at a barrier and nearly rolled over him, got up and took the next five jumps without a fault. ¶Miss Mary Gwyn Fiers's nine-year-old chestnut mare Roxie Highland, which won the three-gaited stake, at which no horse has beaten her for three years. ¶Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim's chestnut gelding Firenze Fairfax, champion jumper of the meet, which won 50 ribbons...
Scottish fishermen sailing home along the Highland coast near Nigg last week heard the leashed rumble of heavy turbine engines coming near them off Cromarty Firth. Soon they saw looming out of the barley soup fog the towering grey flank of the world's biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward...
Schieffelin & Co., who have been liquor merchants for 139 years, lately obtained the agency for Hennessy ("* * *") brandies and Teacher's Scotch whiskey ( Highland Cream ). Both James Hennessy & Co. of Cognac, France and Schieffelin & Co. of Manhattan are under the management of the sixth generation in direct descent of their respective founders...