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...Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later he staked the claims, financed by a syndicate of farmers. Experts refused to buy him out but in 1922 two New York men, Humphrey W. Chadbourne (brother of Sugarman Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne) and Samuel C. Thomson, mining engineers, prospecting in the district, formed the Noranda syndicate to take over what Ed Home had found...
Last week the antis banded together. Current figures were heartbreaking for many a Cuban sugarman. Since the first of the year, Cuban raw sugar has sold as low as $1.18, the worst price in its history. At present it is around $1.25 against production costs of between 1.5? and 1.66?. During the first half of the year. U. S. imports of sugar dropped 30% from 3,400,000 to 2,400,000. But imports from Cuba tumbled more than 50% from 2,200,000 to 1,000,000. And Cuban business, said reports last week, is at the lowest...
Chairman Chadbourne is no sugarman, but his firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy is as impressive in law groups as his 6 ft. 6 in. of physique is among men, his Jezebel among yachts. While his interest in sugar may be academic, it has a family base. His brother, W. A. Chadbourne, owns two large plantations in Cuba, has not fared very well. Lawyer Chadbourne is said to have been suggested for the position by Col. John R. Simpson, head of Cuba Cane Products Co., biggest of producers...
...James A. McNeill Whistler. So impressed was Whistler with little Louisine's good judgment that he gratefully sent her copies of several of his etchings. That was the beginning of the collection exhibited last week. Years later Louisine met and married another collector, the late Henry Osborne Havemeyer, potent sugarman, President of American Sugar Refining Co. It was no longer necessary to save pennies. Together they wandered about the world, buying magnificently. It was Mr. Havemeyer, for whom the present collection is named, who bought the Old Masters. Mrs. Havemeyer, ever interested in what was new, eschewed dealers remembering Whistler...
...Spreckels Chakir, in Reno to divorce Turkish Prince Suad Bey Chakir, heard that she had won a $5,000 damage suit against Egyptian Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...