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...jogged over the hills. One day Louis Fink, Tunney's manager, slipped over to Dempsey's camp and watched the champion deal briskly with his four sparring partners- Robert Delfino, South American heavyweight, James Saxon, middleweight, James Brown, Negro middle-weight from Panama, Philip Weisberg, heavyweight from Brooklyn. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's one-time manager, attached the Dempsey Rolls-Royce for sums which he declared stood owing. Then from Manhattan came a surprising announcement. Tex Rickard, foreseeing nothing but litigation in New York State, changed the place to Philadelphia, the day to September 23. Governor Pinchot...
...attitude of people who actually believed that when they ate liverwurst, bologna, or a bit of scampf, they were partaking of pulverized canine cadavers. Some thirty years ago this Adolf Gobel, who has done more, perhaps, for the sausage business, than any other man of his era, went about Brooklyn with a wicker basket...
...people in apartment houses ate more sausages than other people. (The reason was simple-it saved cooking.) He noticed also that more and more apartment houses were being built, and putting two and two together he decided that an increasing number of sausages was going to be eaten in Brooklyn in the next thirty-five years. He started a sausage factory. The business grew to include not merely sausages but the whole line of delicatessen products. Today the name, "Adolf Gobel, Inc." on these products is an assurance of the highest excellence. Last week a Wall Street group purchased, through...
Annulment Sought. By Ottillie Gobel Reed, onetime wife of the famed "Sausage King"; from Sigwart John Reed, architect; at Brooklyn...