How One Man Built a Billionaire Fortune from Postum and Battles Creek
The Indianapolis Journal describes C W Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Company, as a self made leader who rose from bankruptcy to become a world renowned industrialist. He built a vast Battle Creek operation, advertised extensively, and helped shape Battle Creek into a booming manufacturing town. He now presides from offices in Washington and New York while pursuing new ventures such as Post sugar and post checks.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington, Dec
C. W. Post
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
Mr. Post
Springfield
University of Illinois
Kansas
California
Maine
Texas
Association of American Advertisers
America
Post
United States
Peoria
Post Sugar Company, Ltd
Washington
New York
London
Roa
Bureau of Information and Promotion
Congress
Columbia
Sir Thomas Lipton
Lipton
Thomas Lipton
Silaersens
Sion
Suburb Lights Parading Night Signals And Sage Wit
A humorous reminiscence recalls suburban residents flashing lamps at nine o clock each night and on Christmas Eve to promote neighborly good will. It also mentions Herbert Spencer ear mufflers as a tall tale, a fifty years ago Checkers Column memory, and a merchant tale about a missing two dollar bill and a boy with a fresh note.
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Henry
Indiana
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spen
England
Mr. Spencer
Sunday
Father
Bob
Helpless 1 watches Cupid clash with Father Time
A fragmentary verse item notes Helpless 1 gazing at a lifelong fray between Cupid and Father Time as years pass. The speaker recalls viewing the duel as torture and hearing a dying year’s requiem chime while resting within a slowyear. Restos Tans and Siaeeed Sete ta cies Weekly appear as garbled names.
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Cupid
Father
A Red Squirrel Thrives Amid Winter Woodland Tales
A red squirrel nests in a hollow apple tree near a wood edge and uses bark for a warm winter nest. He forages through snow and defeats threats from owls and hawks, stores nuts, and clashes with boys who steal his hoard. He socializes with feeders but remains bold. A robin chase ends when a neighbor’s gun halts the young redstarts.
The Open Range War Over Free Grazing Lands
The piece outlines a long conflict over grazing rights across Texas to Wyoming, detailing attacks by cowboys on sheep and goat herds, killings and destruction, government orders to keep flocks off forest reserves, and calls for permanent leasing or ownership of grazing lands to end the violence and ensure feed for large flocks.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
Oregon
Free Range
Poem on Peace and Liberty at Indianapolis Monument
A patriotic meditation by George E Bowen praising peace over war and liberty’s enduring spirit. It contrasts stone monuments with living ideals, urging gentler power, universal brotherhood, and the defeat of tyranny through truth, tolerance, and hope.
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Earth
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Checkers
Tennyson
William Morris
Olatime
Requiem
Indianapolis Coal CO
E. Market St
Ernest
Harold Ba
For
Indianapolis
Ife
George E. Bowen
Isle
Coalco
Washington St
Steven
B. Meyer & Coo
A. B. Keeport & CO. Coal and Coke Telephones
Malott Coal and Lime Co
Sokue
Wm. Eaglesfield Co
St. and
L. E
W.R.R. T
Ohio-Jackson
W. H. Roll
East Washington St
Willig’s Furniture Store
West
Wwe
Supreme Electric Belt
Physicians Institute
Unity Building
Ubicage
Litaels
Havana
F. R. Rice Mercantile Cigar Co
St. Louis
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