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...helper in his father's grocery store. Some 20 years later he began to manufacture soap on a small scale and eventually built up a business valued at some $500,000,000 out of his famous Sunlight Soap and Lux (sold in the U. S. by Lever Bros.). He himself is a model of efficiency and a hard worker, up at five-thirty every morning, at his desk at six, "through for the day" at seven...
...Mayhew is the " Bubble Books man." The Bubble Books, out of which Mayhew has made almost over night a large fortune, have been one of the most extraordinary of recent successes. A few years ago, while connected with the Advertising Department of Harper & Bros, publishers, this ingenious fellow hit upon the idea of combining a printed page with a phonograph record. From this the Bubble Books were evolved. You read aloud to the children a story from one of the volumes. At a certain point the text relates that the baby bear sang a song. There follows on the page...
Died. Thomas Baring, until recently head of the London banking house of Baring Bros. & Co., at Newmarket...
...summer stock, you have only to glance at the professional theatrical journals to discover that it is nationwide. Troy, N. Y., Lewiston, Me., Newark, Binghamton, Cumberland, Md., Trenton, are only a few of the localities where stock companies are playing at present. The Root Bros, organization is about to tour the Dakotas under canvas. Brown Bros, dramatic stock is tenting the fields of Illinois. Miss Jessie Bonstelle, having just begun a stock season at the Harlem Opera House with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, is now in Detroit, at the opening of her summer stock company there...
...sugar futures have touched a new high record for this year, and the highest price since 1920, on lowered estimates for the current crop; Guma-Mejer, the Cuban authority, estimated it as low as 3,670,000 tons. Most refiners, including American Sugar Refining, Federal Sugar Refining, Arbuckle Bros., Revere, National, Warner and Pennsylvania, have not unnaturally raised their prices for refined sugar after the rise in the raw commodity...