Rise of the House of Giles in Cambridge realty era
A 1903 Cambridge business portrait outlines George A. Giles born Apalachin New York Harvard graduate who built George A Giles & Son in realty insurance and theatre ventures. It notes offices in Cambridgeport Central Square and a growing portfolio including Uptown St George Gorman Norwood Guild Theatres and area properties led by his son John Giles after 1935.
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Cambridge
Giles
Boston Stock Co
Back Bay
Boston
Boston Museum Players
George A. Giles & Son Realty and Insurance
Central Square
George A. Giles
Theodore H. Raymond
George Giles
John T. Mathews
Frank Townsend
Cambridge Industrial Commission
Massachusetts
William B. M’coy
Telephone numbers boost sales in local ads as story shows
A book publisher’s sales manager learns the power of displaying a telephone number in all ads and mailings after spotting a Pennsylvania restaurant ad missing it. He then adds the number to his own campaigns and finds inquiries by phone drive higher sales, especially from interested adults, while reducing wasted effort from child inquiries.
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George T. Eager
Pennsylvania
Outside point of view in advertising and business
The advertising man must supply the outside perspective to a business seeing it as customers do. Businesses, from banks to florists, hide appealing stories within routine. Fresh writers from the country often see city life vividly, echoing the outside view for public appeal.
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Yankee Doodle
WNU
Harvard Trust Company and Cambridge Banking Heritage
A profile of Harvard Trust Company tracing its origins from the 1860 charter as the Harvard Bank to its 1904 renaming and 1921 merger with Charles River Trust. The piece highlights founder courage, trusted leadership, expansion in Central Harvard Kendall Squares, and the bank’s role in Cambridge’s three trade centers along with its elite staff and directors.
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United States
Benjamin ‘Tilton
Cambridge
Harvard Trust Company
Mass. Ave
Central Sq
Harvard
Boston
Harvard Trust Co. Record
Manufacturers’ National Bank
Cambridge— Central
Kendall Sqs
Kendall Sq
Greater Boston
Yesteryear
Harvard Trust Co
Walter F. Earle
Willard H. Sprague
Charles Esteve Sommer
Kelly
Diteed M. Keeler
Cigar Etymology From Spanish Garden Roots
The article traces the word cigar from Spanish cigarral meaning garden and explains how cigarro and eventually cigar entered English. It notes tobacco’s novelty as the context and that cigarette denotes a small cigar.
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Apalachin
New York
Harvard University
Beacon Hill
House of Giles” of
Giles Company
Aetna Insurance Co
Boston Insurance Co
Christine Peskes
Polly Mathers
Myra Upton
Caroline Arns
Bruce S. Colpas
Warren Hanson
The
House of Giles
John Giles
Cambridgeport Savings Bank Bldg
Realty
G. Royal
Timothy W. Good, Jr
Alexander C. Hooker
Ernest F. Tillson
Albert H. Blevins
George L. Dow
Joseph W. Motherwell
Ashton Valve Co
Frank H. Golding
N. E. Gas and Electric Association
Arthur L. Endicott
Lewis 5. McCreary
George H. Rockwell
Arthur M. Wright
Theodore L. Storer
R. M. Bradley & Co. Inc
William J. Underwood
Wm. Underwood Co
H. LeBaron Sampson
Hutchins & Wheeler
Francis A. Countway
Lever Bros. Co
Floyd E. Armstrong
M. L T
Paul R. Corcoran
J. H. Corcoran & Co. Inc
Everett Morss
Simplex Wire & Cable Co
Arthur Wright
Cambridge Sentinel
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