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Los Angeles books a new industry. (Knightsbridge Publishing Co.)
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Los Angeles books a new industry
Books are the last thing anyone expects to come from Los Angeles, for all the city's much vaunted economic diversity.
Exceptions might be made for "New Age" books on the occult, mysticism, spiritualism, crystals - the types of books found at the Bodhi Tree, the West Hollywood bookstore - but no mainstream books.
Commonly dismissed as a literary wasteland, Los Angeles is, after all, about as far as you can get in the continental U.S. from the great commercial trade publishers of New York City, both geographically and ...
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Oconomowoc Lake estate came with a past Meatpacking family's fortune was foundation of Armour-Valentine buildings' grandeur
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...shores of its lakes, one of the most famous of those mansions was the Oconomowoc Lake Armour-Valentine place called Danforth Lodge. Philip Danforth Armour founded the Armour Packing Co. in Chicago in the late 1800s. In earlier years, Armour...
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A. Watson Armour III, 83; was meat-packer, executive
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; A. Watson Armour III, 83, a longtime Chicago socialite...Lake Forest home. A descendant of Philip Danforth Armour, founder of the giant meat-packing company that bore his name, Mr. Armour entered the family business in the...
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 "Tribune (Mesa, AZ)")
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Dial sells Armour Foods business for $183 million: Division helped start company 138 years ago.
Newspaper article from: Tribune (Mesa, AZ)
; ...America. Pinnacle will take over Armour's Iowa manufacturing operation...chairman Ulrich Lehner indicated the Armour products might be sold. Henkel...products and adhesives. But when Philip Danforth Armour struck it rich catering to California...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Mellody Farm marks era of North Shore grandeur.(Neighbor)(Lake County Discovery Museum)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; ...possibly most pretentious was the home of J. Ogden Armour (1863 to 1927) in Lake Forest. It was known as Mellody Farm. Jonathan Ogden Armour, the second son of Philip Danforth Armour - the founder of the meatpacking company - was...
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Crusader hogs city spotlight Series: 20TH CENTURY CHICAGO
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...better personified that spirit than Philip Danforth Armour, who helped build the meatpacking...Hog butcher for the world." Armour's recipe for success was less...head and sandy side whiskers, Armour arrived at the Union Stockyards...
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 "Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)")
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Academy gears up for show
Newspaper article from: Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)
; ...grounds of the former J. Ogden Armour estate in Lake Forest, offering...son of meat-packing pioneer Philip Danforth Armour, the estate is included on the...displayed in the former home of the Armour family, in a setting that matches...
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What is your black history IQ?(test on black history)
Magazine article from: Ebony
; ...of Chicago, Illinois, was a. A meatpacker named Philip Danforth Armour. b. A free Black man named Jean Baptiste Pointe...Washington Movement was a. Martin Luther King Jr. b. Asa Philip Randolph. c. Bayard Rustin. 22. The first Blacks...
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 "Chicago Sun-Times (IL)")
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History behind Black History
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
; ...Proclamation. c. 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 5. The founder of Chicago was: a. a meatpacker named Philip Danforth Armour. b. a free black man named Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. c. a politician named Joseph Daley. 6. The following...
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 "News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)")
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DAY BOOK
Newspaper article from: News-Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)
; ...is $25 and includes admission to the boutique. The boutique is held on the academy's campus in the former Philip Danforth Armour home where shoppers are treated to the historic mansion in its holiday finest, complete with a 20-foot Christmas...
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SNEED
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...along: Author Richard C. Lindberg's Quotable Chicago came up with this bon mot: Quoth Chicago meatpacker Philip Danforth Armour: "I am a butcher trying to go to heaven." Tipsville . . . Dem data: Cook County Assessor Tom Hynes, the...
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