Geobox Settlement name Close City, Texas category Community image Close City Texas abandoned school.jpg image caption Close City schoolhouse built 1919, abandoned 1965. image size 300 country flag United States state flag Texas region Garza County, Texas Garza region type County district Llano Estacado district type Region location elevation 894 lat d 33 lat m 12 lat s 39 lat NS N long d 101 long m 29 long s 14 long EW W area area land population population date population density established 1906 mayor timezone North American Central Time Zone Central CST utc offset 6 postal code 79343 area code Area code 806 806 map map caption map locator website http www.tshaonline.org handbook online articles hrc72 Handbook of Texas Close City, TX Close City is an unincorporated community in western Garza County, Texas Garza County , about convert 6.5 mi km abbr on west northwest of Post, Texas . This small rural community lies on the level plains of the Llano Estacado in West Texas . The rare motorist that happens to pass through the remote small town of Close City today may be unaware that, at the turn of the century, the town site was chosen as the original location of Post City, a model community and grand social experiment conceived by C. W. Post , an American breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer. ref name handbook Julius A. Amin, Close City, TX, Handbook of Texas Online, http www.tshaonline.org handbook online articles hrc72, accessed December 31, 2011, Published by the Texas State Historical Association. ref In the early 1890s, Post developed a popular caffeine free coffee substitute called Postum and later made a fortune on breakfast cereals such as Grape Nuts and Post Toasties . ref name Eaves Charles D. Eaves and C. A. Hutchinson. 1952. Post City, Texas. Austin Texas State Historical Association, 171 pp. ref As Post s wealth grew, his interests began to expand into other areas. One project that had always intrigued him was the creation of a planned community of mod ... more details
products used there. In 1895, Post founded Post Cereals Postum Cereal Co. , with his first product, Postum cereal beverage. Post s first breakfast cereal premiered in 1897, and he named the product ... more details
ref Expansion of the product line In 1942 General Foods Corporation, the successor to the Postum Company ... It was later replaced by Postum, a hot decaffeinated beverage that was touted by Father as being ... more details
Postum Building , 250 Park Avenue, New York, NY ref http www.emporis.com en wm bu ?id postumbuilding newyorkcity ny usa Emporis Postum Building ref Ernest Stillman House , 45 East 75th Street, New York ... more details
soon to be famous breakfast drink, Postum, provided Beilhart he would stay and work at the Inn ... drink called Postum . This drink eventually became the basis for Post s breakfast cereal company. ref ... more details
Infobox Film name The Power and the Glory image The Power and the Glory poster.jpg image size caption theatrical poster director William K. Howard producer Jesse L. Lasky writer Preston Sturges narrator starring Spencer Tracy br Colleen Moore br Ralph Morgan music cinematography James Wong Howe editing Paul Weatherwax distributor 20th Century Fox Fox Film Corporation Fox Film Corporation released August 16, 1933 runtime 76 minutes country Film US language English budget preceded by followed by The Power and the Glory is a 1933 in film 1933 film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore , written by Preston Sturges , and directed by William K. Howard . The film is not related to the 1940 The Power and the Glory novel of the same title by Graham Greene . It was Sturges first script, which he delivered complete in the form of a finished shooting script, for which he received 17,500 and a percentage of the profits. Though profit sharing arrangements are now a common practice in Hollywood, they were unusual at the time and gained Sturges much attention. ref American Masters http www.pbs.org wnet americanmasters database sturges p.html Preston Sturges ref The film, told through flashbacks, is often cited as the prototype for Citizen Kane . Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz , who along with Orson Welles won an Academy Award Oscar for the screenplay of Citizen Kane , was a friend of Sturges. ref cite web last Kael first Pauline title Raising Kane url http www.paulrossen.com paulinekael raisingkane.html publisher New Yorker accessdate 18 February 2012 ref Tracy s powerful performance in a boardroom scene is widely considered one of his most thrilling sequences as an actor. The film was loosely based by Sturges on the life of C.W. Post , his second wife s grandfather, who founded the Postum Cereal Company , which later became General Foods . Like Tom Garner, the lead character in The Power and the Glory , Post worked his way up from the bottom, and ended his own life. Otherwis ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Cheekwood nrhp type image WTN PeepHoles 082.JPG caption Cheekwood Mansion location 1200 Forest Park Dr., Nashville, Tennessee lat degrees 36 lat minutes 5 lat seconds 12 lat direction N long degrees 86 long minutes 52 long seconds 26 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Tennessee built 1929 architect Bryant Fleming et.al. architecture Colonial Revival added August 23, 2000 area convert 7 acre governing body Private refnum 00000993 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Cheekwood is a privately funded convert 55 acre m2 sing on estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art . Formerly the residence of Nashville s Cheek family, the convert 30000 sqft m2 sing on Georgian architecture Georgian style mansion was opened as a museum in 1960. The house that coffee built Christopher Cheek founded a wholesale grocery business in Nashville in the 1880s. His son, Leslie Cheek, joined him as a partner, and by 1915 was president of the family owned company. Leslie s wife, Mabel Wood, was a member of a prominent Clarksville, Tennessee Clarksville family. Meanwhile, Joel Cheek, Leslie s cousin, had developed an acclaimed blend of coffee that was marketed through Nashville s finest hotel, the Maxwell House Hotel . Legend has it that Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the blend Good to the last drop, which is still a registered trademark for the product. Cheek s extended family, including Leslie and Mabel Cheek, were investors. In 1928, the Postum Cereals Company now General Foods purchased Maxwell House s parent company, Cheek Neal Coffee, for more than 40 million. With their income secured by the proceeds from the sale, Leslie Cheek bought convert 100 acre km2 of what was then woodland in West Nashville for a country estate. He hired New York residential and landscape architect, Bryant Fleming , and gave him control over every detail from landscaping to interior furnishings. The result was a lime ... more details
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Jell O Company launched D Zerta , an artificially sweetened version of Jell O. Two years later, Postum and Genesee merged, and in 1927 Postum acquired Clarence Birdseye Clarence Birdseye s frozen foods ... more details
flew across the Atlantic. Ernest Woodward , Orator s oldest son. He sold Jell O to Postum Cereal Company Postum for 66 million, the beginning of General Foods . With the money he supported local ... more details
drink, Postum . Post and Beilhart rejected much of the Christian Science doctrine, but embraced the religion ... with Post, the two men invented a breakfast drink called Postum . This drink eventually became ... more details
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