MONEY IN PATENT MEDICINES.
FORTUNES OF RECENT YEARS In referring to the death of Mr. F. A. Cnsp, a member of the firm of Steedman and Co., patent medicine proprietors, of soothing powder fame, who died worth £164,000. the “Times” gives the following as being among the principal Britisli patent medicine fortunes of recent years:— £ James C. Eno (“Eno’s Fruit Salts”) 1,611,607 George Taylor Fulford (“Dr Williams’ Pink Pills”) 1,311,000 Sir James Horlick (“Malted Milk”) 450,481 Frederick B. Benger (“Benger’s Food”) 420,807 Sir Alfred Bird (“Bird’s Custard Powder”) 653,656 Alfred B. Scott (“Scott’s Emulsion”) 174,947 George Handyside (“Handyside Consumption Cure”) 147,860 Walter T. Owbridge (“Owbridge’s Lung Tonic”) .. 112,214
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 235, 16 September 1922, Page 5
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108MONEY IN PATENT MEDICINES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 235, 16 September 1922, Page 5
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