V.
[A telegram from Nicholas Ribstone, president of the Ginger Cubes Corporation, to Edward Gartenbaum of the National Drug Novelties Company.]
Decline discuss selling interest in Ginger Cubes distribution plans perfected watch our smoke.
RIBSTONE.
VI.
[A memorandum sent to heads of departments of the National Drug Novelties Company, Chicago.]
OFFICE BULLETIN No. 38946 (Series B).
Minutes of Conference Held in Directors' Room, April 12.
Mr. Gartenbaum reported that he had had a telegram from Ribstone declining assistance in financing the Ginger Cubes. Mr. Gartenbaum thought the matter important enough to warrant calling the directors together. Was it possible that Ribstone had access to new sources of capital hitherto unemployed in the drug trade? This seemed unlikely in view of their own recent canvass. Mr. G. asked Mr. O'Keefe, who had just come back from New York, whether he had been able to find out anything definite about the plans for Ginger Cubes
Mr. O'Keefe said that he had found the trade greatly interested in the rumors that had been current. It was said everywhere that Ribstone had got hold of a formula that was a knockout, and that the Ginger Cubes had caused more talk in pharmacist and confectionery circles than anything since the Smith Brothers sold their razors. He had not been able to get any very definite dope about the distribution plans, but it was common talk that Ribstone intended to spend half a million in the New York newspapers. He had heard that the Gray Matter
14
