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Fortune Ryan (street . railways, mining); to Edward Thomas Baring, of Baring Bros., London bankers; at Doughoregan Manor...
Andrew Carnegie, grasping for iron and steel monopoly made Frick his chief partner-in Carnegie Bros. That was in 1889. But theirs was no close friendship. Both were too individualistic. Eventually they quarreled, called each other names, separated, but this was after Frick, with the aid of some Carnegie men-Charles M. Schwab, William Ellis Corey and James Gayley-had smashed the bloody, massacring Homestead Strike of 1892. In the riots Anarchist Alexander Berkman shot Frick, stabbed him thrice...
...curve of intrepidity could be traced through these four periodicals in the order of their appearance, from Casanova Jr.'s Tales, which were shipped to customers by sly express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these...
...Dodge Bros., said President E. G. Wilmer last week, earned $15,801,364 net profits the first half-year ($15,843,259 same period last year); made net sales of $156,041,866 ($117,045,569 last year); sold 207,115 cars and trucks (138,767 last year); had $19,952,511 in cash...
Julian Wheeler Curtis of A.G. Spalding & Bros., educator-sportsman...