..Jack Dempsey, ,who recently announced! his retirement ;from the ring, iha.s now gone out of the. hotel business—with £20,000 profit. Last month he sold the Barbara Hotel in San Franc’sco for a reported consideration of £130,000. Ths is approximately £20,000 more tlhan he paid for it in t»24. By a coincidence Jess WiHa’idi, from whom Jack Dempsey took the titM came into the limelight at the same time as the Dempsey sale was jaL /' 'a nnouncedt The huge ex-cowboy, who r is now a wealthy dabbler on the Stock Exchange, sold “corner” lots on ’change for £40,000’ and £19,200 pe- . sppctivejy. The old-time prizefight- !* -ers were as a race apart from these modern business men of the ping;. ■ Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Firpt pid for coughs, colds, influenza.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5306, 30 July 1928, Page 3
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128Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5306, 30 July 1928, Page 3
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