Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: From his father's small soap factory at Chatham he, aged 18, migrated to Detroit, became car-checker, then bill-clerk for the M. C. R. R. A. Y. Malcomsen, coaldealer, made him his bookkeeper at $75 a month. He married Margaret A. Manning of Detroit in 1898, who bore him one son, three daughters...
Another development for the modern dog is the Dog's Bath Club, London, a canine beauty parlor pictured last fortnight in the London Graphic. Here dogs are given baths in white enamel tubs, shampoos with the latest dog soap, are dried with the electric driers used in human beauty parlors. The lounge is decorated with dog murals by Ernest Mills, famed animal painter. The Prince of Wales gave him special permission to include his pet, princely Cairns in the picture. There is a cocktail bar where members may wag their tongues while waiting for their dogs...
...Soap and Soap Substitutes
...land's largest producers of cotton seed oil in the U. S., buys or produces 50% of the total U. S. edible fat production, uses 90% of all whale oil imported into the U. S. Most famed throughout the U. S. is Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap which is "99 44/100 pure" and "Floats." But P. & G. Naphtha is said to be the largest selling soap in the world. Famed also are P. & G.'s Camay (toilet soap) and Crisco (shortening...
Procter & Gamble today operates seven factories: Ivorydale, Ohio; Dallas, Tex.; Macon, Ga.; Port Ivory, Staten Island, X. Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hamilton, Ontario; Kansas City, Kan. Largest factory is in Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...