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Identifier: centennialannive00mccl (find matches)
Title: The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClung, David Waddle, 1831- (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Hamilton, Ohio (Cincinnati, The Lawrence printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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test perfection in pro-duction is called for, the special machines of this establishment are thestandard re(;uirement. This automatic refined machinery is of the utmostrefined character and deals with the rough wood and produces the finishedwheel. A specially has also been made of automatic machinery for themanufacture of wood pumps, and for railroad car works. An idea of theextensive product of the establishment may be gathered from the fiict thatof the Universal Wood Worker, a single machine in the long list of pro-ducts of this concern, over four thousand have been sold and they have goneinto all the lands where wood is worked The shops are very extensive and are well equipped with the best mod-ern iron-working machinery for the production of wood-working machines,and the business is conducted with the most careful and conscientious super-vision with a constant thought as to the best interests of the customer. Illllllilillllllllllllllillllilllllllilfll .ss?// / / nM//E (SEiA \ /1..
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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiMiHUiiiiiiiiiiiiJiiiiJiii / £M.M iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii THE CKNThNXlAL ANXIVKRSARY OF HAMILTON, O. 275 THE BECKETT PAPER COMPANY- In 1849 a party by the uame of Allen, began on a paper mill in Hamiltonat the corner of Buckeye and Lowell Streets. He brought to thetown two miU-wrights, John L. Martin and Frank Martin, to erect the milland he brought Adam Laurie, a Scotch paper-maker, to run the mill. Atthat time the only paper mill in Hamilton was the Wrapping-paper Mill of Brwin, Kline & Co. Allen got in the foundations for the mill and then failed and left theMartins and Laurie in bad shape, stranded high and dry. At that time WiHiam Beckett was a lawyer in Hamilton, and so was F.D. Rigdon. The stranded mechanics consulted Beckett and the result was-that an arrangement was effected whereby the Martins and Beckett, uaderthe firm name of Beckett, Martins & Rigdon, undertook to put the proiecthrough. Beckett had one-third interest, John L- Martin one-

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