Lever Brothers to Pay Federal Tax on Soaps
Lever Brothers announces they will pay the 5 percent federal tax on soaps like Lux Toilet Goop Pears and Lite buoy, despite consumer cost pressures. The move avoids raising retail prices and aims to relieve family budgets, with letters sent to retailers explaining the policy.
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Lever Bros
Lever Stupido
Ted States
Edward G. Hermann
Lever Brothers
Treasury
United States
Carload of Soap Arrives For Sale
A full carload of Lever Bros. products arrived in Winchester including Lux Toilet soap Lux Flakes Lifebuoy soap and Rinso. The batch supports a big sale starting Friday in Winchester shops organized by Edw G Hermann Lever Bros representative with local merchants. G L Easley and a Li factory decorator prepared eye catching window displays. The Capitol Theatre offers prizes for guessing the nearest Life Buoy tube count in the Boyd Drug Company window.
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Lever Bros
Winchester
Lux
Edw. G. Hermann
G. L. Easley
Market Report Prompts Mixed Prices Across Markets
The page lists local wholesale and retail prices for dairy, grain, livestock, and eggs with notes on butter, corn, middlings, and scratch feed. It mentions Baltimore wholesale figures and closes with a personal notice that Mrs. George Vernard and daughter Miss Narcy Bernard of Gratton, West Virginia are visiting relatives at the Grit residence.
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Star
Chines
George Vernard
Narcy Bernard
Gratton
W. Va
C. Frank Grit
Starrest
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Market Report
Baltimore
MOE Isveseutehs
Ccapaeake
Ae Amous
B. C
G. W. Riley & Son
Valley Avenue
J. F. Massey & Son
S. Cameron St
Earl C. Fries
N. Cameron St
Fairview Ave
Loudoun St
A. J. Hamman Stores
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Ritter’s Meat Market
N. Market St
Mace
S. Braddock St
Harry J. Brown
N. Piccadilly St
Eagle’s Meat Market
Geo. H. Eagle
S. Loudoun St
Fair Play Store
S. Main St
E. Piccadilly St
Pure Food Store
B.f.davis
N. Braddock St
Bailey Bros
Cameron St
W. F. Brown
Sanitary Cash Store No
Cameron and Piccadilly Sts
Senseney Road
Marion Nixon
Ralph Bellamy
Warner Bros
Capitol
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