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...stock was whipped up to $46 a share on a when-issued basis. ¶ Within 24 hours after Illinois had formally ratified the 21st Amendment last week, Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., potent Canadian liquor company (Canadian Club Rye), announced that it would build a huge distillery at Peoria. Construction will begin in January with an initial investment of $1,000,000. The distillery will consume 20,000 bushels of grain per day, will have a daily output of 100,000 gallons of bourbon and rye whiskey. ¶ The price of medicinal whiskey, demand for which has increased enormously since...
...last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University). In 1887 he married Jenny Davidson of Elizabeth, N. J. For four years he had a church in Chambersburg, Pa., then joined the Princeton faculty...
...Peoria Yonkers...
...order to better his product he hired Messrs. Perlstein & Singer. So able were they that within a few months they were partners in the business and soon controlled it. Premier bought a second plant at Steubenville, Ohio and then a third in the once great whiskey city of Peoria. It concentrated on malt products and thrived while the old-line companies struggled to sell near beer...
...deal with Pabst, Premier Co. stands ready to join the front-rank scramble for national beer sales. Premier plans to concentrate all its brewing in Milwaukee, to use its Peoria plant to make a breakfast food and the other two to make malt products, probably for the trade. The Pabst cheese business will be continued. An unusual glimpse into the private figures of beerdom was afforded recently when Hilson & Neuberger, Manhattan bankers, offered some shares in Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The company's assets were listed at $26.295,000 and its earnings for the first half of the year were...