Word: waukesha
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...power and all success to Hideo Takahashi, TIME, Sept. i, but the nose-wiping campaign in Japan was actually conceived in 1912 by Frank Putney Haight, Waukesha, Wis., and Edward C. Jones, Portage, same state, both employed at that time on editorial staff of The Japan Advertiser...
...Waukesha, Wis., Phillip Voss burned down his house in order to evict eleven tenants who refused to pay rent...
...Waukesha, Wis., Herman Emery hanged himself because "someone was after his money...
White Rock. Visitors to Chicago's World Fair in 1893 were almost able to drink White Rock pumped directly from the company's springs in Waukesha, Wis. The scheme had been conceived by one Charles Welsh who had been given the springs by his uncle, but after several miles of pipe were laid, it was discovered that the cost was too great. Even without this brilliant stunt White Rock prospered. At first it had been sold only locally. Then a chance sample reached a Manhattan gambling hall owner who obtained a 50-year sales agency which the company later bought...
...springs, then carbonated at high pressure. Although it is claimed White Rock has medicinal properties, the company never stressed this in advertising but places emphasis on its use as a table water. Another product of the company is White Rock Pale Dry Ginger Ale which uses water from the Waukesha springs. Noncarbonated water is marketed under the name Still Rock...