Word: kessler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kessler. An oldtime Prohibitionist will still bridle at the name of Julius Kessler. Mr. Kessler was head of the much-abused pre-War "Whiskey Trust." More to the point, he enjoyed the reputation of having sold more whiskey than any other living...
Born in Budapest, Julius Kessler was selling whiskey in Colorado when the silver boom started at Leadville in the late 1870's By coaxing pack mules over the hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities...
...Uebel Holmes Fullerton Randall Scannell KIRKLAND 17 LOWELL 12 Seeman, ss. 2b., Phillips Wells, 1b. lf., Illoway Perry, rf. rf., Abel Winsauer, p. 1b., Holmes Engel, c. 3b., O'Conner Tighe, lf. ss., Stern MacDonald, 3b. cf., Fields Strauss, 2b. c., Wickersham Notman, cf. p., Cornell Kessler Stevenson Adelman Walsh, Sheafe Seder Dumond
...only two men who are out of the Princeton fracas are Frank Little field and Charlie Kessler. The latter has been suffering from injuries all season and has now retired for the year in order to have an operation performed on his knee
...injured list today Garrow Geer and Frank Casale have joined Captain Herman Gundlach and Charley Kessler, but the entire quartet will be ready for action tomorrow. Shaun Kelly and Bill Watt have also retired temporarily, the former going up to Stillman because of an abscess. Fred Moseley is reported as all right but didn't get into the scrimmage yesterday...