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THE LATE M. COTY
MARY BROWN.
AMERICAN SCOTS
was
War Brings Him Riches
Eighteenth-Century Interest In Bannock-
Business Woman
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Jely 23.
burn Scheme
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, July 29.
The mombers of the Order of
M. Francols Coty, went manu- facturer and Newspaper proprie- a product of the twentieth century,!:
Business women, we are told, are Scottish Clans in America, and the Daughters of Scotia were greatly tor, died
on Wednesday at his but Glasgow can boast of one who interested in the scheme for the home at Louvecienes, near Paris, lived over 10 years ago. She was preservation of the battlefield of at the age of '60,
Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of a hoot Bannockburn when they visited Francois Coty, whose real name and shoe manufacturer,
Stirling yesterday as the guests of Francols Joseph Spoturno,
With her it was a case of needs national committee for the preser
Stirling Town Council and the was a Corsican, born at Ajaccio, must, Her husband died, and she vation of the battlefiled. and claimed "descent from Charles was left alone to manage his affairs.
The company numbered 250, and, Bonaparte, the father of Na-bad very little knowledge of the Royal Chief of the Order of poleon I. His parents died when the boot and shoe trade, but was Claus, Mr. Duncan MacInnes, was advised by friends to have the re- he was four years old and his maining leather of the businese Grand Chief Daughter of the at their bead, along with the youth was obscure, but it is known made into shoes suitable for the Daughters of Scotia, Mrs. Mar- that he went to school at Ajaccio, West Indies with which Glasgow did his conscript service in the had a fair trade at that time. garet Mitchell, Dunfermline army, and later became a news Mary Brown did so with the finate native, and the Past Grand Pres- paper reporter. He also studied cial help of a prominent Glasgow dent, Mrs. Mary Park Lyall, who chemistry and worked as a chem-business man, David Dale, and belongs to Paisley.
The Royal Chief, who is and it was then some others. The shoes were clavernets man, said that nothing that the manufacture of eau de sigued to a well-known West Indian that had happened in Scotland in cologne by a simple process drew firm, and the widow stipulated that recent years had pleased him, more his attention to perfumery. In his Payment should be made in cotton than the success of the movement
Mary Brown-Cotton Broker.
ist's assistant,
late twenties he made his way way into the perfume industry, and founded the arm of Coty in 1904.
F
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LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE
HE Undersigned, have received:
Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
WEDNESDAY,'
AUGUST 16, 1934
COMMENCED AT 10.30 AM.
Af Ko, 173, NATHAN ROAD, ROWLOON
A QUANTITY of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
also
·ONE· SEWING MACHINE
and
for the preservation of the battle- field of Bannockburn. He was glad that the ground round the faunous Borestone had been acquir; 25 VOLUMES OF ENCYCLOPE ed for the nation, and he hoped matter of funds required to com- that the outstanding needs in the
DIA BRITANICA
made known to the Order of Scot- Sheplete the transaction would be
tish Clans in America through the Fiery Cross," the organ of the urder.
The Complete Business Woman, When the cotton duly arrived in persuade Mrs Brown to charge Glasgow, David Dale tried to coctou broker with the sale of it, but the lady was adamant. and no other would sell it. She was successful in obtaining a good price, and from then on she was established as a cotton broker.
It was a peculiar career for a.
OK VIEW FROM TUESDAY, TH: 14TH AUGUST, 1984.
Chief TERMS:—CASH ON DELIVERY,
Coty, as he now called himself, quietly but steadily expanded his business in the next 10 years. The War brought him his opportunity in the world of high finance, and when it ended he was a rich man. Two years after the declaration of peace his War profts were esti-
"In reply to an address of welcome mated at nearly £500,000, half of woman, especially a woman hedged by Bailie Wingate, deputising for which he was obliged, after a bit-round by the drawbacks of the Provost Macintosh, at the Munici ter struggle, to surrender in taxa-qualities particularly suited to it. MiscInnes assured them that the
times she lived in, but she bud pal Buildings, Royal
She could think in terms of thou-Scottish accent was an asset, and famous all over the world and sands of pounds; large sums nevar he counselled the folk at home brought him an immense income dismayed her. She was cool and never to be afraid of the Doris, from many countries. Assured of far-seeing. "Attention to Busi- their mother tongue. prosperity and influence Coty con- nes" might have been her slogan. In the ferencon the company. ceived political ambitions and She believed on being on the spot, visited the field of Bannuckhur sought election as a Senator for and no detail was too trivial for and Stirling Castle, conducted by Corsica. His campaign, which washer supervision.
Mr. D. B. Morris, the Town Clerk unsuccessful, was said to have
After lunching in of Stirling the Golden Lion Hotel the visitors cost him over 8,000,0001.
Newspaper Venture
tion. His perfumes were
then
Her Absorbing Interest
A leather bag was Mrs. Brown's were taken a tour by motor coach In order to forward his political constant companion. In it she kept to Aberfoyle and by the now road
and to the Trossachs
Callander, career and to propagate his views samples of different kinds of cotton Tea was served in Stirling on Coty entered the field of journal-that she herself might display
I them ism on an extensive scale. Ee ac-She was not interested in clothes. Prospective customers. quired a controlling interest in the Cotton was her one prevailing
to
their retuzn.
Figaro," and shortly afterwards topics but she did not care about LONDON'S "HUGE
concerned her...
in the "Gaulois," and these old-what it could be made into; it was established and respectable news- the buying and selling of it which papers were soon given over to an intense propagation of M. Coty's Mary Brown did not wish for the personality, is options, and his society of her own sex; she had so wares. Articles beginning with little in common with women. She the phrase "Ce Grand Francais, M. Preferred to talk to men, and would Francois Coty, became a familiar discourse intelligently on the rei feature of their front pages; they tive merits of long and short staple, did not, however, appeal to their lots more cotton jargon which was
"Surats"! ยนd "Surinams," habitual readers, and it was not Greek to the female mind. long before the "Gaulois" ceased
and
It was said of her at the time publication, while the public of that more money passed through the "Figaro" was much diminish-Mary Brown's hands than those of ed. Coty gave vent, through his any other Scotawonen. She prade newspapers, to an extreme Nation- a large fortune, yet she did not allat policy, in which he divided keep at. Had the remained solely the main weight of his personal at the business of cotton broking, attacks between M. Briand and it is probable that she would have M. Leon Blum, and, in the foreign died the richest woman in Scotland, sphere, administered impartial but unhappily she tell a victim of castigation to all countries and speculation. And finally there was Governments which failed to sub-
published March 15, 1794, in the Edinburgh Gazette" this mit to his conception of French
notice: interests.
In 1926 he extended his activities by founding the "Ami du Peuple,” which, thanks to a heavy subsidy from the scent business, was sold to the public at 10c. in Paris and 150. in the 'provinces, thus under- cutting all the established news- standard papers, of which the
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LIBRARY
Move To Other Premises
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, July 28:
A library of 250,000 books and
pre-
pamphlets, nearly all dealing with Empire and Allied subjects, has just been moved from the Royal Empire Society's headquarters in Northumberland-avenue "to mises in Carlton House Terrace.
The removal occupied a week, The books wee made up into over 20,000 packages and conveyed in 27 van loads,
Preparation work, Including checking and listing.
Sequestration. Mary Brown; ontton dealer in Glasgow. Credi had taken months. tors to meet in Claud Curries, The Society's building in North- vintner there, th current, at umberland-avenue is to be pulled noon to name a factor, and at the same place and hour, 18th April, to chuse a trustee,
It was a sad end to a great career, yet Glasgow may be proud of its woman cottonbroker for her.
price was 25e. As a consequence originality and enterprise,
"L'Ami du Peuple" was boycotted by the association of newspapers. the recognized distributing agencies refused to handle it, and it was
down. A much larger, building on
LAMMERT BROS,
AUCTIONEERS.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE' Undersigned have récoireł
Instructions
TO SELL BT
PUBLIC® AUCTION
ON
THURSDAY, AUG, 16, 1934
COMMENCING AT 10.30 AM.
Ar No. 11, CARNAEVON BUILDING, KOWLOON
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD. FURNITURE
(Particulara sa Per Catalogue)
also
"ONE UPRIGHT PIANO,
ON VIEW FROM WEDNESDAY, THE 15TH AUGUS♪, 1884.
the site is to be opened at the end TERMS:-CASE OF DELIVERY. of next year. In the meantime the Society will use 17, Cariton House Terrace, but because of lack of space, most of the library has had to be stored,
Among its treasures is a collec- tion of drawings by William Westell, done during the first sur-
banned from the Parks kiosks NEW MOTORSHIP vey of the Australian coasts under-
Nothing daunted, Coty organized a distribution system of his own at unknown cost, and "L'Ami du Peuple survived. Its principal feature at that time was a violent anti-Socialist and anti-Communist campaign.
In the course of his campaign against Socialism Coty had taken part in the formation of the Jeunesses Patriotes and other. Na. tionalist associations which are now a prominent feature of French pubile life, and his last political act was, in 1933, the union of the Jeunesses Patriotes and the Boli- | darite Francaise in the Front-Na- tional designed to oppose the new- ly formed Front Commune of the
•Left
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~ Enodon, July 28,- Messrs Scotts' Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. Greenock, will launch from their Cartsburn Dockyard to-day' the singlescrew passenger and cargo motorship Yunnan which they have built to the order of the China Navigation Company, of London.
The machinery, which is a five- cylinder single-acting, heavy-qil engine of Messrs Scotte' own, de- sign, works on the two-stroke
taken by Matthew Flinders in
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS.
In 1802; early MSS. of western SERVICE TO READERS
travel in Canada written by David Thompson and William Mac.. Gyray; the Burney MBS, relat- ing to Burma, Malaya and Siam: and the Glover M88. relating to West Africa:
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Subscribers and Visitors London, July 28. Lord Woolavington, who is aadvice regarding Scotsman, has given £10,000 towards
Gifts To Hospitals
Coty was elected Mayor of cycle with airless injection of the defraying the cost of a new pay tion available, motoring faci
fuel: All the auxillaries in the ship, including the deck mac- hinery, are electrically, driven,
Ajaccio in 1931
NW ALITIGATION WITH WIFE
In the last year of his life Coty met with a series of financial mis- fortunes which culminated in the loss of a lawsuit with his wife, to whom he was ordered, after his "Figam" passed into other hands, divorce in 1926, to pay the sum of and "L'Ami du Feuple recently 450,000,000. In former daya he went into liquidation. The event could have met this liability, but passed almost unnoticed except by the devaluation of the frane re the former butt of Coty, M. Leon duced his assets by four-fiths, Blum, who, man ironical article attributed to and Coty found himself practically in the "Populaire, a ruined man. He was unable to Bem the caricaturist this To maintain the finapdal structure yeml of a well nown saying which he had built up, the
“L'Odeur 'n'a plu
beds departament at the London Hospital."
lities, suitable shopping Sir William Goschen, chairman of the hospital, announces that the centres, etc.:
| new slepartment is for patients": of
moderate means.
who bas
ularly.
Lord Woolavington, twice, Hom Derby sportsman, and is par
hown, for his
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to
off Scotland
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