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Story January 7, 1918

Free Trader Journal

Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois

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James Fogarty, nearing 71, receives a salary raise as a buyer for a Cincinnati grocery and baking firm, handling a quarter of the city's coffee, tea, and flour purchases with accurate judgment and tasting that boosts sales.

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AT 70 HE RECEIVES
BOOST IN HIS WAGE
Ohioan, Whose Job Calls for Accurate
Judgment, Gets Salary
Boost in Latter Years.

James Fogarty has just received a
raise. The reason that Fogarty's
raise appears among the other oddities
of the day's is that Fogarty is
going on 71 years.

Most men quit getting raises at 65.
If 60 many of them are retired.

But James Fogarty jams barriers to age looking into the future working every day, mind not of rest doesn't watch the clock, and is still getting raises in dollars.

Fogarty is buyer for a big grocery
and baking firm in Cincinnati. In
that capacity he buys about a fourth
of the coffee, tea and flour that Cin
cinnati consumes. It calls for accurate
judgment and close attention
to markets all over the world. A mis
take by him may mean a loss of thousands
and

Also one fourth of the coffee that
Cincinnati drinks passes his lips. If
coffee doesn't taste good to him,
it isn't inflicted on the consumers. He
has increased coffee sales by accurate
tasting. He makes his own coffee for
testing purposes. Here is his recipe:

Place your coffee, ground not too
fine nor too coarse, in a cloth. Place
cloth and coffee over the top of the
pot. Then pour very, very hot water
over the coffee and let the water
drain through the pot. The result
will be the best coffee you
ever drank. Fogarty claims
it rated world's

What sub-type of article is it?

Biography Personal Triumph

What themes does it cover?

Triumph Moral Virtue

What keywords are associated?

Salary Raise Elderly Worker Coffee Buyer Cincinnati Firm Job Longevity

What entities or persons were involved?

James Fogarty

Where did it happen?

Cincinnati

Story Details

Key Persons

James Fogarty

Location

Cincinnati

Story Details

James Fogarty, approaching 71, receives a salary increase for his role as a buyer of coffee, tea, and flour for a major Cincinnati firm, requiring global market judgment and personal tasting that enhances sales; includes his coffee brewing recipe.

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