The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-23
MILLIONAIRE MANUFACTURE
ER or MENTHOLATuM
HELD UNDER FOOD ACT
Lust MONEY IN DIRT,
MADE II IN sALVE
LIFE HISTORY OF PHILAN-
HROplST AND UPLIFTER
READS LIKE NOVEL
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(By Associated Press.)

by ~ASSOCIdlSu iCoo.J
Qichita Kan, April 23.--A. A.
IyiIa, millionaire philanthropist,
k10S the nation-soyer for his BEN
aIIt Religious Forward Movement,
axso0iate of Raymond Robins, OF Chi
ca&0 and Fred b. Smith, of New
Y0rI iii nplift work, must answer for
silis Evaporation, the Mentholatum
oAMcag of Wichita, the criminal
,shdfxes made against it by the Unit
cd states government under the Shir
ley 1riendment to the Food and Drug
fnNtne information filed by United
6tatoa District Attorney Fred Rob
crsson in Wichita yesterday after
nocn The government charges that
tho Mcfitholatum company made false
REPRESENTATIONS of the curative pow
crs If Mentholatum The case will
BE- tried in Wichita in the Septen-
LEI term Of court which begins there
September IS.
Mentaolatum Since 1890.
'liiydt has become millionaire
from the sales of the remedy which
began In the spring of 1890. He Isl
president Of the company, Edward K
Hyde. son is vice president, George
a III Hyde, another son, Is secretary
and Aiexander Hyde, third son is
treas1rer of the concern.
The story Of the life of the nil
AonaIfe salve manufacturer has been
told many times and his career has
Eeen held up as a model for young
business men.
Since his boyhood Hyde has been
relfnicus and a member Of the Pres
bSternn church. He was born IN
Lee, Mass, and is 66 years old. Hia
fffh6f was principal of small acad-
sa1y Id Lee. and Hyde had careful re-
ligious training from boyhood. At
seventeen he came to Leavenworth
ana took a position as a bank clerk.
XII tic old wild days of the early six
tiSs in Leavenworth a young man
WHO never drank nor swore was a
curiosity. Hyde's New England hap-
its were unchanged by the roughness
III tae west and he gpt on well 'a'lAa
EGnk
West 10 Wichita in 1879.
In 1872 when the Atchisoni Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad was completed
10 Wichita Hyde saw opportunity and
went there, taking place as book
kcoper in the old Wichita Savings
hank. Later he was promoted until
he became cashier. In the early
eiehties he quit the bank and VITA
partner opened book store tna'
was financial success. A year OF
two later Hyde saw that real estate
was Increasing in value and besr"
investing in town lots. Apparently
his Judgment was good. His oper-
ations in real estate increased until
several additions were laid out and
added to the city of Wichita. Many
Of these additions still bear his name
Hydes fortune was at that time e.
timated at 100000 and he later ad-
mitted that he was worth that mucn' |
He lived in a big house on Coliege4
Hill fashionable district of Wichi- |
Ia. He had long been prominent
member of the First Presbyterian
church ofWichita and was consulted
uron matters that pertained to the
welfare of the city The future of A.
HYDE real estate dealer. at this
time never looked brighter.
eico.oco In psbt.
Then the boon hurst
Some one talked about hard times
some one else whispered a dark hins
about the scundness of somebody's
bank: an editor who saw the trend
of the sky-high real estate prices
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