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...your admirable review of political corruption in the States you touched upon the activities of the shoe-polish interests in Louisiana, their ardor in drilling new wells for the purpose of making carbon black, in turn to be used in the manufacture of shoe-polish "and other products...
Probably you know well that carbon black is used for far more important purposes than shining the shoes of the nation. If so, this brief comment represents time wasted...
...Carbon black is an important ingredient in the manufacture of automobile tires. High quality black is one great factor in giving automobile users of today far greater tire mileage than they had ten years ago. That, assuredly, is more important than shoe-polish, according to the standards of today...
Also, and of particular interest to yourselves, is the fact that carbon black is necessary in the manufacture of printers' ink. One ink factory already operates in the great gas field north of this city. Another large manufacturer now operating in the East is pleading before the high courts for a chance to open a carbon plant. Probably it was carbon black that helped tell your readers about shoe-polish. There are scores of other interesting uses for this black dust that is captured as it flies up from hordes of tiny natural gas candles in the smoke-blanketed...
...little dancing bubbles wherewith the Liquid Carbonic Co. tickles the palates of a vast public of U. S. soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband...