FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING
The career of Mr. George Weddell, inventor of Cerobos Salt, who&e'death is announced at tlie age of sixty-one, is a business romance which supplies one more example of a man who mado a fortune by advertising. About twenty, two years ago Mr. Weddell, then in partnership i,t Newcastle with Sir Joseph Swan, tho chemist and inventor of tho incandescent lamp, invented a table salt for use in his own family. .Afterwards Mr. Weddell placed his new salt before the public, and eventually spread its fame throughout the world. Among the people who made fortunes through advertising and who have died in recent years are: Mr. T. J. Barrett. .Pears' Soap (£405,564); Mr. James Crossley Eno, Eno's Fruit Salts (£1,611,607); Mr. George Taylor Fulford, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills £1,311,000); Mr. George ' Handyside, Handysido's Consumption Cure (£147,860); Mr. Walter Tom Owbridge, Owbridge's Lung Tonic (£112,214); and Mr. Henry Charles Lane, Nugget Boot Polish (£111,505),
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 8
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155FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 8
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