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...Wall Street's oldest rumors was laid to rest last week. Chief mourners were stockholders of Montgomery Ward & Co. Talk that this Morgan-sponsored mail order house would merge with successful Sears, Roebuck was almost as old as the bull market. Negotiations were known to be in progress again this summer when it was said Sears offered one share for each three shares of Montgomery Ward. The Morgan company apparently asked...
...Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren Minister of McClure, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap of the Amateur Trapshooting Association; at Vandalia, Ohio. Shooting at clay pigeons for the tenth time in his life, Trapshooter Roebuck broke 96 out of a 100 at 17 yards, won the shoot-off against Fred Harlow of Newark, Ohio and Ray F. Willbaum of Greenville, Ohio. He was awarded a silver replica of the A. Bennett Gates trophy, on which his name will be engraved; a $600 tea set; and $1,000 in cash...
Lessing J. Rosenwald, 40, resigned as vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., became chairman of the executive committee, vice chairman of the board. The shift was interpreted as meaning that his father, Julius Rosenwald, plans to become less active in the company. Last week the rumor of a merger between Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward was stronger than it has been for a year...
Married. Sarah Stires Wood, daughter of President Robert Elkington Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; and James Roland Addington, Chicago socialite; in Highland Park, Ill., by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires. Bishop of Long Island, uncle of the bride...
...Tribune at the A. N. P. A. convention was its development of two-color printing in the body of a regular daily edition, on regular presses. Last year the Tribune sold 25 pages of such advertising; so far this year, 40 pages, to such advertisers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. A few small papers in the West and South have followed suit. Eventually, the Tribune hopes to perfect the system so that four colors may be used...