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...Peppermint Press Sirs: The Press would be interested in knowing from TIME more concerning price paid and net investment of Woodyard brothers in their weekly newspapers [TIME, July 9] What percentage of net investment came in the 1934 dividends? The writer's experience has been that every daily newsman at some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention...
...declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from keeping in the top right-hand drawer of his desk a glass jar of sticks of peppermint candy. . . . What if a small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning...
Sally of the Scandals. The genuine Scandals of George White opened on a Manhattan stage last week (see p. 30). By a preconceived coincidence, a scandalously peppermint-coated film also opened. Its idea is that earnest little girls are given a break in the big & naughty Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
American Chicle Co. (peppermint & licorice, chewing gums & candies*)- $1,524,002. Previous year...
Long ago when little Manhattan girls-they wore flounces and frilly ribbons then-wanted peppermint drops they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker...