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...Even with the land consolidated and the leases bought out, Harvard must undo the environmental damage to the site from two-hundred years of industrial use, including Naptha manufacture. Currently, both the extent of the damage and the cost of correction are unknown to the University...
...Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed - the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization. Most ended with little more than sore feet. But some who began as peddlers created American business dynasties: Samuel Pels of Fels-Naptha soap, Department Store Founders Adam Gimbel, Benjamin Altman and Marshall Field, and Meyer Guggenheim, whose family made a fortune in copper...
...headline over an article on President William C. Pels of Bennington reads "Fels's Naptha" [July 6]. Maybe that's the way they spell Naphtha at small, rural, private Bennington, but it wasn't the way they spelled it at small, rural, private Bryn Mawr. Have I caught TIME napphing...
Died. Samuel Simeon Fels, 90, president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...
...only decoration in the Philadelphia office of Samuel Simeon Pels is a bust of Abraham Lincoln, made entirely of soap. That is fitting enough: Samuel Fels, who celebrated his goth birthday last week, has spent a lifetime making soap. Still active as president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha), which his father and brother founded 74 years ago, Soapmaker Fels put in a five-hour day, as usual, in his office across from the factory. Though he makes only soap and soap chips-and has never gone in for soap opera-Fels has steadily kept his company among...