 Bowles later also became an official of the Atlas Tack Company in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and the Longchamps and Buffet Exchange restaurant chains, and held interests in Bell Aircraft, the Reo Motors, Inc., the Bowles Agawam Airport in Agawam, Massachusetts, and Western Union, as well as Alliance Manufacturing of Alliance, Ohio.He eventually turned over his holdings to a beneficial trust for his 500 newspaper employees.Bowles died March 3, 1952, age 61, or 62 (accounts differ).