Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — JOHN G HUBINGER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN G HUBINGER.

Remarkable Career of a Well-Knowi Western Capitalist, Manufacturer and Pbllanthroplat. Among the leaders of the progressive element for which the midle west is ,'ntuous, Mr. John C. Hubinger, of Keokuk, La., reigns without a peer. As a manufacturer, as an enterprising capitalist and as a philanthropist his fame has spread over many states, and his financial enterprises have developed many obscure towns into progressive, ihrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr. Hubinger, although but 47 years of ige, can look back upon scores of comnercial victories, each one of which has >eueflted mankind, for his liberality is as bountiful as his business sagacity is marvelous. He was born in New Orleans, La., his parents being of French and German origin. When he was four rears old, his family removed to Kenucky, in which stdte young Hubinger received a public school education. Almost before reaching man’s estate he -ecured patents on a number of valuable mechanical inventions, thereby laying the foundation of his present fortune. By inclination and force of circumstances his attention was early directed to the manufacture of starch by improved processes, and in the course of time he became the head of a concern having an annual business of millions of dollars. But genuine ambition never quite satisfied with existing conditions, works ever toward perfection, and after years of painstaking study and research Mr. Hubinger has made a

discovery, which he considers the crowning event of his wonderful career, and which is embodied in a new article of commerce, known as tied Cross Starch (Red Cross trade mark.) He is planning to distribute millions of packages of this starch to the housewives of America, at a merely nominal price to the consumer, in order to make its merits known without delay. Thus, for but 5 cents two large 10c packages of Red Cross Starch may be had, together with two magnificent Shakespearean views printed in 12 beautiful colors, or a Twentieth Century Girl Calendar; or for only 20 cents 10 packages of the starch and the entire series of eight Shakespearean views and one Twentieth Century Girl Oalendar —views alone easily worth SI.OO. Witch this paper for future premium announcements, of which every lady will certainly want to take advantage. While Mr. Hubinger will devote his best energies to the manufacture of .his new and wonderful starch, he will not retire from the various financial enterprises in which he is interested—street railways, electric lighting plants and the Missisisppi Valley Telephone Co., with 10,000 telephone subscribers n Minneapolis and St. Paul —nor will i ais augmented activity interfere with ’ ais social obligations and exercise of the splendid hospitality which he dispenses at his palatial Keokuk home. Mr. Hubin ger’s family, consisting of himself, wife and four children, is the pivot around which his activity revolves, and while fond of promoting great enterprises, he is still fonder of his home circle, where he spends every moment of time not taken up by business or nublic cares.

JOHN C. HUBINGER.