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...train from Canada to Manhattan to look for a job. Getting off at Grand Central Station with no knowledge of the city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went to see McKitterick, asked for a job as a Melachrino salesman...
Messrs. Ellis & McKitterick were well aware of the fact that the dealer was fed up with profitless prosperity. They also knew that they enjoyed considerable personal prestige in the trade. As crack salesmen for the old Tobacco Trust, later for Melachrino, and then as vice presidents of Tobacco Products Corp., they had built up reputations for giving dealers a break. President Ellis could cash a check in any cigar store in any U. S. city of 5,000 or more. All in all, the time seemed ripe for a 15? cigaret that really sold...
Tobacco Annuity. In 1923 Tobacco Products was a $70,000,000 Virginia corporation with 20 well-advertised brand names, including Herbert Tareyton, Johnnie Walker, Melachrino. Today Tobacco Products is one of the so-called Morrow-interests, and its principal asset is a wad of stock in United Cigar Stores, which is in the hands of the courts...
Died. Miltiades Melachrino, 77, cigaret tycoon; after long illness; in Queens, N. Y. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he founded M. Melachrino & Co. at Cairo, Egypt, moved it to New York in 1904, retired 15 years...
...Melachrino 1.31 Sweet Caporal...