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...more local, and far more disturbing infringement on the moral atmosphere of Copperthwaite Street, is personified in one Charles Breen. Breen, affectionately termed the Proprietor of Parke and Tilford's by his Dunster House acquaintances, partakes freely of intoxicating potations at periodic intervals. Under the influence of demon rum, he invariably gives vent to his superfluous enthusiasm by standing on Copperthwaite Street at six o'clock in the morning, summoning all the vocal power at his command, and calling out random remarks concerning the intelligence, habits, and ancestry of Dunster men in particular, Harvard men more generally, and all college...
...Wright-Dobie School for girls goes little Mary Tilford (Florence McGee), granddaughter of the young institution's chief patroness. As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child. Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins...
...Park & Tilford Martel Brandy Marie Brizard Cordials and last, but not least, the old firm...
...Yorkers rubbed their eyes last week when in full-page newspaper spreads they saw itemized the names and prices of 63 well-known wines, whiskeys, brandies. Also told was how, when and where the liquor could be purchased-from Park & Tilford, oldtime fancy grocers, "if and when Repeal comes." A $10 deposit would guarantee delivery of a case of Old Grand Dad ($71.80), White Horse Scotch ($39-77) or a dozen bottles of Sauterne ($28.40) "as soon as legal." What startled many a reader was not Park & Tilford's high prices, for most of the items could be duplicated...
...dickering with another distributor. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, once its dryish directors were converted to the liquor business, went after Bacardi. The Canada Dry executive who handled the regulations left to build up a liquor business for the Schulte interests. Soon he was trying to get Bacardi for Park & Tilford. Schenley Distillers went after Bacardi; so did National Distillers, Lamborn & Co. (sugar), R. C. Williams, W. A. Taylor & Co. Thoroughly enjoying the game, the Bacardis played one off against the other...