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...four largest agencies are popularly supposed to be J. Walter Thompson Co. (which handles such advertising as Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Cream of Wheat, Fleischmann's Yeast, O'Sullivan's Heels, Ed. Pinaud, Royal Baking Powder, Sun-Maid Raisins, Swift & Co., Sloan's Liniment, Welch's Grape Juice) ; N. W. Ayer & Son (which handles such accounts as American Telephone and Telegraph, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Hire's Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels...
...which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor of the Merrimac as it had been reproduced from the specifications furnished by spies. It was the regret of John Ericsson's life that the Merrimac was not sunk by the Monitor in the first encounter. The powder charge required to drive the shell through the armor had been cut in two by order of the War Department, it being deemed unsafe to the gunners. In the second encounter, after the Monitor had narrowly escaped being rammed, the crew in desperation used a full charge, which drove...
...Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan real estate operator; William Ziegler Jr., baking powder magnate; Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, owner of Rockman, (bromo seltzer) ; I. B. Humphreys, Denver mine-owner; C. Frank Croissant, Florida real estate operator; Mrs. George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman who peered through his racing-glasses while nearby touts...
...three. It was a kiss which sealed the doom of at least one martyr, which saved from doom at least one saint. And how many of the grand monuments of literature have subsisted on the strength of their purple passages, begermed but satisfying. As for powder puffs. Well, at least they have created a "Kiki" and have cured one defect in woman's beauty. For even Dido must have been chagrined to see the gleam from her sun burnished nose reflected in the plus eyes of her stern lover. Lead pencils--that is another question. Until lead is perfected beyond...
...University of Arkansas has discovered that the pencillium spore in kisses, powder puffs, and lead pencils breeds germs. So the undergraduate body is now ready to join the arch-angelic class of those who never use kisses or powder puffs or pencils. Thus biology has saved more existences and ruined more lives...