Last week the employes of Welch Grape Juice Co. were given for Christmas 10% of the outstanding Welch common stock. The four Welch brothers made the gift from their personal holdings, in memory of their father, Dr. Charles Edgar Welch. Founder of the company, Dr. Welch was known up to his death in 1926 as an ardent prohibitionist. His discovery, with his father, of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice"* led him to abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. High points...
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