Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — Wrested Fortune From World. [ARTICLE]

Wrested Fortune From World.

Sir Marcus Samuel, who has purchased from '’the eari-of Berkeley for the sum of $25,000,000 a parcel of the fashionable residential section of London, known as Berkeley square, started in business life keeping a little shop in one of the poorest quarters of the British metropolis, where he made and sold for a shlllliig or two, ornamental boxes made of shells from the sea shore. Later he invested bls savings in oil, made money and started a company'tolled the “Shell,” thus identifying his big new venture with his orig- . Inal struggling business. .