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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rural Raritan, N. J., last week a Mrs. Joseph Bonini cuddled her child, six weeks. The infant gummed at her wrist watch. The watch slipped loose and into the baby's throat. The baby choked. Came rushing two policemen with a motorcycle and sidecar. Away they rushed over rough roads to a hospital, one in the sidecar holding the child. The motorcycle wiggled; the sidecar lurched; the policeman bounced; the baby shook; and the watch jiggled out of its throat. All was well...
Comparable, in the drug field, to Stand ard Brands of General Foods in the food field. Drug, Inc. has back of it no J. P. Morgan, no E. F. Hutton. Its central name has been Louis K. Liggett, board chairman and founder of L. K. Liggett Co. and United Drug Co. Beginning his merchandising career as a traveling salesman for John Wanamaker, Mr. Liggett soon went into business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were...
...Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business...
Governors of the Manhattan Stock Exchange last week gave permission for the establishment of two branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike...
...particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house of Morgan will have about 2% of the 12,250,000 P. & G. shares outstanding since the five...