FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING.
The career .of Mr. George Weddell, inventor of Cerebos Salt, whose death is announced at the age of sixty-one, is a business romance which supplies one more example of a nran who made a fortune by advertising. About twenty-two years ago Mr. Weddell, then in partnership at Newcastle with Sir Joseph Swan, the chemist 'and inventor of the incandescent lamp, invented a table salt for use in hi s 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 jeais 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, Handyside’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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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 6
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156FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 6
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