FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING.
The career of 3Jlr. 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 man who made a fortune by advertising. About twentytwo 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 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 (£1,611,007); Mr. George Taylor FulI ford. Dr. Williams' Pink PUla (£1.311.000); Mr. George Handyside. Handysidc's Consumption Cure (£147,860); Mr. Walter Tom Owbridge, Owbridge's Lung Tonic (£1i2,214); and Mr. Henry Charloa Lane, Nugget Boot Polish (£111,860).
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 7
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