FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING.
DEATH O'F A SALT INVENTOR. The career of Mr George Wcddell, inventor of Cerebos salt, whose death is announced at the age of 61, is a business romance which supplies one more example of a man who made a fortune by advertising. About 22 years ago Mr Wcddell, 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 —a. salt highly refined' and with pho£, phatos added 'to replace those lost in the cooking of food. Afterwards Mr Wcddell placed his new salt before the public and eventually spread its fame the world. GREAT ADVERTISERS. Among the people who made fortunes through advertising and who have died in recent years are: Mr T/. J. Barrett, Pears' Soap (£105,564); Mr James Orossley Eno, Eno's Fruit Salt (£1,61f,60i7): Mr George Taylor Fulford, Dr Willams' Pink Pills (£1,311,000); Mr George Handyside, Handvside's Consumption Cure Mr Walter Tom" Owbridge, Owbridge's Lung Tonic (£112^214); and Mr Henry Charles Lane, Nugget Boot Polish (£111,505).
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Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3
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178FORTUNE FROM ADVERTISING. Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3
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