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! for summer resorts In Cleveland, fFrom this article we make a few ex-raets which will be read with interestby thousands of Reflector readers:L.Ftook the HumphreysI what the peopleresorts and to give it to them. Now priisecond seasonj phreys as summer resort proprietors is latewfthatthe right idea ElliLegally, the Humphreys are the ter,I^ ^ '» r * r d--; i ' 'v • U v .Mm - . /fU . : v\*- *• f w- . . SrJ BHumplirey Popcom Company, incor- schlt;porated as a stock company with a sonOtfO all the sharesbeing held by the members of the, Dfamily. Miss Mary M. Humphrey is Brilt;company; Dudleyeldest of the brothersberithaiDudley S. Humphrey, l^g*treasurer; and David H. Humphrey,general manager. Thecompany are another brotherMIIw11osleyd3-1-Humphrey, and Miss Mabel; natHumphrey and Baby LouiseDudleyOddduedaughter. All of the members of I edthe family are stockholders in the wercompany, and not a dollar’s worthbeenthe hands of outsiders. uteiandgood start. When theiragoFto his sons and daughters his thous-HuronWakeman. *- was under a load of$50,000 debts. Thepay off the debt, and in fourteenraninbarto$6.0thaiyear they made $60,000 out of the farni-and applied a greater part toward thedebt and interest and improvementsRLutnon the property. There was still $25.-\fr000 owed after the sheriff sold the Ifarm, and it was wlfh this load and F*e$100 borrowed money that the family yeai rame to Cleveland in 1891. They lived tbeyFewei,tville at first Dudley worked Cleveland Press for a vear or lt;*HirDavidpaper at tithes. Dudley wrote i Magriculturaldelegate to the Paris exposition bossrepresent industries of the UnitedStates.hoirWhile living in Glenville, DudleyHumphrey and his brothers also did a fronhorses on the SoGlenville track. Things went aiontgelg from bad to worse with the family fi- I i nances. Themembers desertingthe others, and they are still as closely hou!united as when it came to Cleveland. : himDudley, meanwhile, had studied on a witlmachine for popping popcorn that to t! should save the corn from scorching, j restpopgoolt;s i corn more flaky and perfect than by beei 3 the ordinary methods. When his pop- peo] per was perfected he went to selling_ I popcorn in what was then called Cable \Park, at the end of the Payne avenuecar line. From the first the popcom j0hbusiness was good. In a little whilesist1popcornaround the streets, tne corn all beingpopped and prepared^ i w*ay. A second stand was established jns_ j on the sidewalk at Lake View. More jn i carts were added to the equipment, j The skies brightened and it was seen that luck had turned.eIn a word, luck turned to such an ex-! Hlitent that the popcorn business paid the j old debt on the farm, $25,000 and more, *vt11 in the first four years, and madeviliSt.j money besides for the family. The d Humphreys have sold as much as $400 j worth of popooru alone in a single day.] Nothing like this was ever done with j tU] popcorn by anyone else. In all, theHumphreys have taken in over a quar-e I ter of a million dollars in five-centoreoffinehit■popcornWhenever he balks about what thepopcorn company has done. DudleymgMisChaHumphrey always insists that his wife is the genius of the family. When hebusiness Mrs. ! ^ t- Humphrey borrowed the $15 with ia*popcornwhich the first popcorn cart, the one ho that Dudley Humphrey pushed about, the streets himself, was bought On UI1some things he is skeptical, but notaboutbeen sparedallIspliencompose tne companyownJur;thee J his first popping machine he did not R}01becausee * at any time he says. When he madeit. Since then he had developed a dozen or more other inventions, but hehas not patented any of them. “Patents never really do inventors muchsanthaconcricgood,” he says. “So far as I know I have never lost any money by not hav- A]patents. If anyone wants to use i atany of my Inventions and can get hold : U of them, I don’t care. There is room 11for all of us in this world.”! inTilWHO KNOWS?JTIWhat you have to eel! unless you•orm the people. The advertising ooltimns of The Reflector afford the quick\vhtorutc»tr
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Norwalk Daily Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Wed, Sep 10, 1902
Page 8
Full Page
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