Notable Burials at Philadephia's West Laurel Cemetery-- Part 2: Baseball Cards and Soup

CYRUS CURTIS (1850-1933)--  Founder of Curtis Publishing Company,  publisher of Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.

JOHN THOMAS DORRANCE (1873-1930)--  Discovered method to make condensed soup and president of Campbell Soup Company.

FRANK H. FLEER  (1857-1921)--  Inventor of bubble gum and baseball card pioneer.  That figures.

LEWIS M. HAUPT (1844-1937)  Engineer noted for work with waterways.  His father was Herman Haupt who was so important in the Union transportation, particularly with railroads, during the Civil War.

RUDOLPH HERING (1847-1923)--  Engineer who was very involved with the reversing of the Chicago River.

BRENDA J. PAYTON HILL  (1945-1992)--  As Brenda Payton, she was lead singer of doo wop group Branda and the Tabulations.

--Cooter

No More Tin Foil in Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Chewing Gum for the War Effort

From the November 14, 2018, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1918, 100 Years Ago.

"To help meet the needs of the government, Wrigley's will discontinue the use of tin foil as a wrapping of Juicy Fruit chewing gum, in order to release valuable material to Uncle Sam.

"Hundreds of thousands of pounds per week of tin foil will thus be made available to the government, it is said.    Juicy Fruit  will hereafter appear in the hermetically sealed pink wrapper same as Spearmint.  Doublemint will also be wrapped in waxed pink paper, instead of green."

--Cooter

The Great Gumball Heist

From the February 1, 2017, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois)  "Looking Back."

1917, 100 Years Ago.

"In the men's waiting room at the depot in DeKalb there is a penny slot gum machine and this morning when the day force got on the job, it was found that the machine had been broken and almost $1.50 had been stolen.

"Officer Rowe got on the job and says he has the guilty party located, and it is probably that he will receive a reprimand for the petty theft."

Look for the Guy Whose Pants Are Falling Off With All Those Pennies, Officer Rowe!  --Cooter