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...bargain. But soon after the purchaser is known as a stockholder, warned B. B. B., high-pressure salesmen would visit him, sell him many more shares of stock. Even less legitimate than most offers, however, is that of the Wrigley Pharmaceutical Co., selling stock and a ''spearmint toothpaste." For although the company's president signs himself W. W. Wrigley, neither he nor the concern are connected with potent William Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
...Philip K. he named a gum, "P. K's.," to share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine...
William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...
...Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum-chewing Spearmint boys): $4,907,162 as against...
...William Wrigley Jr. & Co. (Spearmint, Doublemint, Juicy Fruit, P. K. chewing gums)?$9,637,575. Previous year...