"Bookmakers ""Bet Fred"" were founded in which northern city?"
"Betfred Betfred is a bookmaker based in the United Kingdom, founded by Fred and Peter Done. It was first established as a single shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967. Its turnover in 2004 was more than £3.5 billion, having risen from £550 million in 2003. It has its head office is in Birchwood, Warrington and also has offices in Media City, Salford Quays, Salford. Done Bookmakers was first established as a single shop in Ordsall, Salford in 1967. Fred and Peter Done financed the first Done Bookmakers shop with capital made from a winning bet they placed on England to"
"in New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and Norfolk, and nationwide through the mail. The firm had a strong reputation in an otherwise unsavory field, and was known for quick payouts to winners, which led to later success in the insurance and banking fields. The firm had been established in 1821 by another brother, Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. (a future president of the Baltimore City Council), who had emigrated from Bavaria, and brought each of his five brothers into the firm. On June 1, 1820, Philip and Mendes Cohen were charged by authorities in Norfolk with selling tickets for the National Lottery"
"(65 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, at 705 Main Street, Rogers was the son of James and Nancy Rogers. James was a very successful businessman. Nancy came from a wealthy Pittsburgh family; her father, Fred McFeely, was the president of McFeely Brick, one of Latrobe's largest businesses. Nancy knitted sweaters for American soldiers from western Pennsylvania who were fighting in Europe. When Fred was born, she regularly volunteered at the Latrobe Hospital. Initially dreaming of becoming a doctor, she settled for a life of hospital volunteer work. Fred grew up in a three-story brick mansion at 737 Weldon Street in Latrobe."
"in Springfield, Virginia. Crown Books Crown Books was a bookseller headquartered in Largo, Maryland. It was founded in the Washington, D.C., metro area by Robert Haft in 1977. Crown Books (retail) is of no relation to Crown Books (publisher), although the former carried inventory from the latter. Crown Books was founded in the Washington, D.C., metro area in 1977 by Robert Haft with money borrowed from his father, D.C. businessman Herbert Haft. The chain was organized under the umbrella of the Dart Group (not related to the current UK-based Dart Group), which also included Trak Auto, Shoppers Food Warehouse, Total"
"for justice against big companies. His home life, while loving, was often neglected in his pursuit of business, and this is mentioned several times in the book—bringing a sense of balance to the stories. . . . Love him or hate him, Fred Levin has enhanced the lives of many who needed help, and lived a life that only could be emulated in a Hollywood movie . . . and probably will be."" Fred was born in 1937, in Pensacola, Florida. He grew up in a conservative Jewish household, with his mother (Rose), father (Abe), and brothers (David, Herman, Stanley,"
"north side of Boston. In 1883, the family moved to Newton Center, another Boston suburb. A 1945 essay describes his childhood growing up near a lake, fishing, ice skating and swimming. He was also an avid reader from a young age, making many visits to the library, as well as enjoying books passed on or given by friends and family. When Frederic was 16, his grandfather helped him to secure a job at Estes and Lauriat publishing company and bookstore in Boston. Melcher began his career in the book industry there, a career which would span 68 years. He began"
"Crown Books Crown Books was a bookseller headquartered in Largo, Maryland. It was founded in the Washington, D.C., metro area by Robert Haft in 1977. Crown Books (retail) is of no relation to Crown Books (publisher), although the former carried inventory from the latter. Crown Books was founded in the Washington, D.C., metro area in 1977 by Robert Haft with money borrowed from his father, D.C. businessman Herbert Haft. The chain was organized under the umbrella of the Dart Group (not related to the current UK-based Dart Group), which also included Trak Auto, Shoppers Food Warehouse, Total Beverage, Dart Drug,"
"Red River of the North floodplain, Fargo is a cultural, retail, health care, educational, and industrial center for eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The city is also home to North Dakota State University. Historically part of Sioux (Dakota) territory, the area that is present-day Fargo was an early stopping point for steamboats traversing the Red River during the 1870s and 1880s. The city was originally named ""Centralia,"" but was later renamed ""Fargo"" after Northern Pacific Railway director and Wells Fargo Express Company founder William Fargo (1818–1881). The area started to flourish after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad"
"Stuart, the bookie; I forget his real name. We spoke too enthusiastically about the comfort of this billet and the welcoming whiskey soda in the evening. It was declared to be our company officers' billet and we were thrown out."" Martin H. Benson Martin Benson (1879–1972) was the co-founder of Douglas Stewart, one of the largest bookmakers in London, and also the owner of Beech House Stud, a Thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm located on Cheveley Road near Newmarket, Suffolk. Benson was born as Henry Phillips Gottschalk in Islington on 24 August 1879. His father Siegfried Gottschalk, was an immigrant from"
"6-7% of market share, eventually went bankrupt. American Greetings Corporation purchased what was left of the two companies. At the time it went out of business, it had a Canadian affiliate, Rust Craft Ltd. A collection of archived Rust Craft and Norcross cards, along with other archival materials dating back to pre-Declaration times in the mid-18th century, was donated to the Smithsonian Institution after the company went out of business. The Rust brothers were born in Belfast, Maine, but moved to Kansas City as boys. Fred wrote and published three volumes of poetry. He lived in Newton, Massachusetts with his"
"born in the capital city of Albany, New York. He was named Francis Brett Hart after his great-grandfather, Francis Brett. When he was young, his father, Henry, changed the spelling of the family name from ""Hart"" to ""Harte"". Henry's father was Bernard Hart, an Orthodox Jewish immigrant who flourished as a merchant, becoming one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange. Later, Francis preferred to be known by his middle name, but he spelled it with only one ""t"", becoming Bret Harte. An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical"
"on Vaudreuil Street in Montreal. It was led by businessmen Benjamin Frobisher, his brother Joseph, and Simon McTavish, along with investor-partners who included Robert Grant, Nicholas Montour, Patrick Small, William Holmes, and George McBeath. In 1787 the North West Company merged with a rival organization, Gregory, McLeod and Co., which brought several more able partners in, including John Gregory, Alexander Mackenzie, and his cousin Roderick Mackenzie. The 1787 Company consisted of twenty shares, some held by the agents at Montreal (see below), and others by wintering partners, who spent the trading season in the fur country and oversaw the trade"
"Fred Northup Jr. Fred Northup Jr. is a comedy improvisor, emcee, fundraising auctioneer, writer, director, inventor, and musician living in Seattle, Washington. He is the President and founder of Southdown Creative and the co-founder of RainGlobes. Fred Northup Jr. was born in Jackson, Mississippi to Fred Northup Sr., an Episcopal minister, and Julie Northup, an employment lawyer. Northup's family moved frequently during his youth – by the time he'd entered high school, his family had already lived in Memphis, Tennessee, Paris, France, Rye, New York, and Lake Charles, Louisiana. He attended his First year of high school as a boarding"
"ABD Insurance & Financial Founded by Bruce Basso, Fred de Grosz and Doug Alburger, ABD Insurance & Financial, Inc. was a large Northern California-based insurance and financial services broker. ABD was headquartered in Redwood City, California. ABD Inc. accounted for $165 million in 2005 U.S. revenue, ranking as the nation's 14th largest insurance brokerage, according to ""Business Insurance"" magazine's July 2006 rankings. It ranked 2nd on the ""San Francisco Business Times""' 2006 List of the Largest Insurance Brokers in the Bay Area, with just over $1 billion in Bay Area-generated 2005 premium volume, and $2.26 billion in overall premium volume"
"is ""Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys & Adjusters"". Insurance publications include ""BestWeek"", a weekly newsletter, ""Best's Review"", a monthly digital & print magazine, and an online wire service called ""BestWire"". Founded in 1899 by Alfred M. Best in New York City, the privately held company moved to Morristown, New Jersey, in 1965, and subsequently to Oldwick in 1974. It also maintains offices in London, Hong Kong, Dubai, Mexico City, Singapore and a news bureau in Washington, D.C. While the company is best known in the United States, it is becoming increasingly well known in Europe, the Pacific Rim and Latin America."
"thousands. Luck left them, and after the second year they had lost all their earnings again. Luck was with them again, and some time after Grant's wedding in February 1896, they had sufficient capital to add a branch in Christchurch to their existing betting shop in Dunedin. Initially, the Dunedin business had to financially support the Christchurch branch, but under Barnett's business leadership in Christchurch, the situation changed and Christchurch supported the Dunedin branch. The Christchurch premises were in the central city at 174 Hereford Street, and from 1905 on the opposite side of the road at 163 Hereford Street."
"18, 1950 http://www.onewal.com/kef/kef1.html Lacey, R. (1991). ""Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life."" Canada: Little, Brown and Company. Frank Erickson Frank Erickson (1896 – March 2, 1968) was born in New York City to parents of Swedish and Irish descent. After the death of his father, he grew up in an orphanage. Frank Erickson was Arnold Rothstein's right-hand man and New York's largest bookmaker during the 1930s and 40's. Eventually, Erickson became very well known among bookmakers nationwide for handling ""lay-off"" bets. With Chicago's Moses Annenberg, Erickson developed a country wide wire service, making possible for the first time"
"University of Calgary. In 1975, he met a local bookseller who would later become a book publisher, George Parry. Parry owned and operated a series of bookstores in Calgary including Laughing Rooster Books, Wild Turkey Books, and City Limits. Later he owned and operated a small publishing/distribution house, Westlands Book Express Ltd, which was eventually located in Cochrane, Alberta. Several of Burnett's books would be published by Westlands Book Express, but volumes were also published by Whickey Jack Publishing, Garlic Press, City Limits Communications, Penny Dreadfuls and BookThug. According to Burnett, his work has been influenced by the founders of"
"Frank Erickson Frank Erickson (1896 – March 2, 1968) was born in New York City to parents of Swedish and Irish descent. After the death of his father, he grew up in an orphanage. Frank Erickson was Arnold Rothstein's right-hand man and New York's largest bookmaker during the 1930s and 40's. Eventually, Erickson became very well known among bookmakers nationwide for handling ""lay-off"" bets. With Chicago's Moses Annenberg, Erickson developed a country wide wire service, making possible for the first time nationwide synchronized betting. Erickson never saw any of these profits because soon after, bookmaking became illegal and the government"
"was opened in Washington, D.C. in 1883. A year later, a second branch store was opened in Chicago in 1884. Simon Brentano served as president of the firm until his death in 1915. He was replaced by his brother Arthur. By 1928, Brentano's had four stores outside of New York City, in Washington, Chicago, London, and Paris. On the eve of the Great Depression, the firm expanded rapidly to become the largest bookstore chain in the nation with four stores in New York City, plus single stores in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington. Unfortunately, the firm acquired a lot of"
"Centrebet CENTREBET is an Australian bookmaker licensed in the Northern Territory. CENTREBET originated from Alice Springs, Northern Territory and was the first bookmaker to be licensed in Australia in 1993 and the first bookmaker to go online in the Southern Hemisphere. CENTREBET was acquired by its biggest domestic rival, the SportOdds Group in 2003 for the sum of A$46.55 million. In 2005, SportOdds merged its CENTREBET, SportOdds.com and SuperOdds.co.uk businesses into one entity, known as CENTREBET. Michael McRitchie is the CEO of the company while Peter Foot acts as chief bookmaker. CENTREBET is the second largest private bookmaking company in"
"; TUSAS 336) Frederick Manfred Frederick Feikema Manfred (January 6, 1912 – September 7, 1994) was a noted Western author. Manfred's novels are very much connected to his native region. His stories involve the American Midlands, and the prairies of the West. He named the area where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet, ""Siouxland."" Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books. He was the oldest of six boys, all over six feet tall, and was himself six"
"mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs from Victor Comptometer to Walter Kidde & Co, Hanson PLC, U.S. Industries, Fenway Partners and the North American Archery Group. In 2003 Escalade Sports acquired the North American Archery Group and currently does business as Bear Archery Inc. Bear Archery Bear Archery is a manufacturer and marketer of bows and archery equipment located in Gainesville, Florida owned by Escalade Sports. The company was founded in 1933 as the Bear Products Company in Detroit by Fred Bear and Charles Piper. The initial focus was on silk-screening and advertising support work for automotive companies. In 1938 Fred Bear"
"city; and a few years later he was joined in business by his nephew Charles. The two most important events connected with the history of the firm were the publication of the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"", and the purchase of the stock and copyright of the Waverley Novels. The copyright of the ""Encyclopaedia"" passed into the hands of Adam Black and a few friends in 1827. In 1832 his bookshop is given as 27 North Bridge in the Old Town and his home is given as 30 Broughton Place in the eastern New Town. In"
"Base in suburban Detroit. Colman was accused of, among other things, accepting gifts in exchange for procuring a war-time transfer of Henry Ford's grandson, Benson Ford, from Fort Custer to Selfridge. Bennett testified that a shoe shining outfit had been sent to Colman by Fay but that the gift had no connection to the transfer of Benson Ford. In September 1945, Henry Ford II removed Bennett from his executive position at Ford Motor Company, and Bennett then resigned his position on the board of directors. Fay also resigned his position at Ford. In October 1945, Bennett and Fay formed a"
"win the 1966 World Cup. In 1997, Done Bookmakers acquired the Robert Walker chain of bookmakers, taking their total to one hundred shops. By 2000, the total number of shops nationwide had risen to 200, and in 2002, Done Bookmakers opened their first shop in the Greater London area. The current name Betfred was first used in 2004. In 2004, Betfred also launched their digital platform Betfred.com and offer sports betting, online casino, online games, bingo, lotto, online poker and virtual sports as well as pool betting. In November 2004, a Betfred customer became the first betting shop millionaire; a"
"Garry (now Winnipeg, Manitoba) and Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the Red River Valley in northwestern Minnesota and eastern Dakota Territory. Many settlers and employees of the Hudson's Bay Company and other local enterprises in this sparsely populated country took refuge in Fort Abercrombie, located in a bend of the Red River of the North about south of present-day Fargo, North Dakota. Between late August and late September, the Dakota launched several attacks on Fort Abercrombie; all were repelled by its defenders. In the meantime, steamboat and flatboat trade on the Red River came to a halt. Mail carriers, stage drivers"
"Brothers, taking security mortgages on property along Washington Street in downtown Chicago. The firm began as a partnership between Lucious Olmsted and Lyman Baird of New Haven, Connecticut. Lucious Olmsted died shortly after in 1862 and Baird invited Francis Bradley - also of New Haven, Connecticut - to join the firm. The company was then known as Baird & Bradley. The partners worked with East Coast investors to channel millions of dollars to the developing city, including the purchase of land for Chicago's major train station, Union Station. In 1871, Baird & Bradley was located at 90 LaSalle Street. When"
"Fred Meyer Fred Meyer, Inc., is a chain of hypermarket superstores founded in 1922 in Portland, Oregon, by Fred G. Meyer. The stores are located in the western U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. The company merged with Kroger in 1999, though the stores are still branded Fred Meyer. The chain was one of first in the United States to promote one-stop shopping, eventually combining a complete grocery supermarket with a drugstore, bank, clothing, fine jewelry, home decor, home improvement, garden, electronics, restaurant, shoes, sporting goods, and toys. It should not be confused with Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer,"
"H. Christensen; 1839–1921; & Benjamin Frank Goodwin; 1859–1945) at 241 Sansome Street — the same address as his publishing company. From 1920 to 1924, he was the manager of the city department (in San Francisco) for Bentley & Waterman (Leroy Vernon Bentley; 1883–1932; & Clyde Waterman; 1868–1950). In 1924, Herzer became the manager of the city department (in San Francisco) for Glens Falls Insurance Company, headquartered in Glens Falls, New York. Music critic Winthrop Sargeant, in 1975, stated that the best ragtime came from outside New York and he cited Herzer & Brown, Wallie's first publishing company, as being among"
"it was announced Peter Done was set to invest a further £1.6 million in the enhancement and development of his HR and Absence Management system, HROnline app. In April 2015, the Sunday Times estimated the brothers' joint net worth at £1.0 billion. Peter Done Peter Eric Done (born February 1947) is an English billionaire businessman, ‘founder’ and group managing director of Peninsula Business Services, established in 1983 by his brother. He also co-founded, with his brother Fred Done, the bookmaking chain Betfred, which has more than 1,350 betting shops in the UK. Peter Eric Done was born in Salford, Lancashire,"
"the northern banks of the Skagit River, proved susceptible to floods. In 1899, Northern Pacific Railway developer Nelson Bennett began laying track from the town of Fairhaven, northwest on Bellingham Bay, and real estate developer Norman R. Kelley platted a new town of Sedro on high ground a mile northwest of Cook's site. The Fairhaven and Southern Railroad arrived in Sedro on Christmas Eve 1899, in time for Bennett to receive a performance bonus from the towns at both ends, and a month after Washington became the 42nd state in the Union. Within months, two more railroads crossed the F&S"
"Germanicus Kent Germanicus A. Kent (1791–1862) together with Thatcher Blake and Lewis Lemon founded Rockford, Illinois, United States in 1834. Germanicus A. Kent was born in Suffield, Connecticut in 1791 and attend Yale College. Around 1822, Kent moved to Huntsville, Alabama, establishing himself as a dry goods merchant, marrying Arabella Amiss of Blacksburg, Virginia on June 7, 1827. Kent was later a cotton merchant as a partner in the firm of Patton, Donegan & Co at the Bell Cotton Factory on the Flint river near Huntsville. The Kent family, including Lewis Lemon, a slave purchased by Germanicus as a boy,"