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Story Of BPS Paint Told By George Day
George Day recounts the 1840 founding of Burgess Patterson Sargent Co as The Burgess Potterron Sargent Co to make BPS Best Paint Sold. The firm built a Cleveland area factory, marketed quality house paint, and grew through trusted results and price, with Day Store later selling BPS products during hard wartime supply.
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B.P.S
George Day
Cleveland
Nccet
Rouse Paints
Burgess
Rome
Pattersom Amd Sargent Mae
Patterson-Sarse
Dolers
Broad St
BPS
Hebert
Ness
Mtov
Maine
Anu Su
Costo T
Ars
Wren
Seluf
Cites Service Revitalizes After 1929 Setback
LESLIE GOULD discusses Cities Service under W Allen Jones as a case study in private enterprise success. Once a utility, the firm now earns over 78 percent from petroleum and over 10 percent from natural gas, with profits and sales rising sharply after a lengthy revival.
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New York
Tre Cites Service Co
Cites Service
W. Allen Jones
Gebade
Cities Service
Mattural
Ges
Mre
Restocz Resute
Graveyerd
C: Service
C.i.es Service
Peru
Jones
Ins
Postermere
Sea
Cess
Orks
National Hearing Week Highlights Deafness Rise
Cyril T. Dalton of Sono tone in Ohio urges observance of National Hearing Week May 8 14 to raise awareness of increasing deafness. He cites over 5 million Americans with hearing impairment and promotes audiometry exams and corrective devices like the Sono tone 910 and 920 as remedies.
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Cyril T. Dalton
Sonotone
E.rr.a
Ohio
Dalton Sala
Harry S. Truman
Sondone Corporation
Elmsford
I. Schachtel
Herring
Dalton
Proper Storage Prolongs Life Of Furs
An article on Jack Knight’s new fur storage plant at 2 Lake Avenue details a climate controlled vault with capacity for 2 000 garments. Garments are inspected, repaired, cleaned, and re pressed before storage and insured during vaulted storage while summer months see continuous fur care.
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Jack Knight
Lake Ave
Hes
Lake Avenue
Nec
Sturate
Sia
Police Attend First Presbyterian Service Amid Parking Fine Flap
St Louis report notes councilman Tred Farroy paying a fine after a police tagging incident near the First Presbyterian church. The event followed an earlier confrontation over parking enforcement and assistance to officers on duty.
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ST Louis
Peter
Tred
Farroy
American Portraits Off Philippine Banknotes
Manila reports that faces of Gevize Wash President Mc Rinks and Admiral Deverweil Giuaprear will appear on new Philippine Central Bank money. The issue honors Philippine heroes and ends American imagery since independence in 1946. Some figures include Burgos Goemir Za mora and other resistance leaders.
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Philippine Central Bank
United States
Geo'se
Washington
Psunete
Burgos
Goemir
Zamora
McKinler and
Dewer
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