Digger dun, nice find. I wonder how it came to be roadside. I've never come across one discarded. Ozarka had plants all across the south. I'm interested in the western bottles, esp California, and the glass factories that made those bottles, and particularly the early years -- 19-teens to...
Very interesting. Ghost villages, full of bottles and likely other durable items - though in time perhaps only the bottles will remain, most everything else decaying, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. For these water bottles the term carboy is sometimes used, but it's a weird word, and can be...
Hezezilla, Embossing on the 5-gallon water bottles was more the rule than the exception, though most or perhaps all of the bottle makers also made plain bottles, used with stuck-on labels. I suppose, since these water bottles were used over and over again, that embossing the water company...
A 5-gallon water bottle, pics attached, made for the Crystal Springs Water Company, S. F. Cal. (San Francisco, I suppose) is marked with a simple '5' on the base. The spout suggests a date before 1930, so the '5' might indicate 1925 --- or might indicate the volume, 5 gallons (more likely, I...
Sitcoms: I must correct the original post and my earlier reply to you. The ebay seller, not familiar with larger bottles, mistook the size, thinking it was 5 gallon -- but it is really three gallon, which actually makes more sense. There was, as you noted above, that three gallon OC bottle...
Sitcoms,
Very similar, but 3 gallons, not 5 -- if the ebay listing was correct. I have seen old soda fountain counter top dispensers but I believe that most of them were designed to hold just 1-gallon bottles of the syrup. I'm hoping to find an image of one with a three-gallon bottle, such as...
Orange Crush experts, Illinois Glass Co. experts, big-bottle experts, others in the know: what is known about the 5-gallon Orange Crush bottle that appeared this past week on ebay? It is has a cork closure spout, and is stamped on the base with the I-in-Diamond of the Illinois Glass Co...
In the census reports, 1900, 10, 20, 30 he was farmer, garden farmer, pickle manufacturing and pickle factory. First name was Charles. B 1860, in MN, English parents, D 1947. Obituary attached.
C. T. Ringrose made horseradish in MN. There are very few newspaper.com hits -- but there is a good article in The Minneapolis Journal, 27 September 1933 that gives some information. A couple of 2-line ads in The MN Star Tribune end of 1934 don't tell us much -- except that he did indeed...
JSP1946, I think that L. M. Snider (Laney Merritt Snider), mentioned above, is likely your man. Here are some ancestry . com hits - I am sure that much more is available -- earlier census records, many additional city directory records, and so on.
PlaneDiggerCam, and contributors,
Following the clues, Norwich CT, date about 1924, Washington Beverages, I checked in ancestry.com, the 1930 Norwich Directory, and there are the following entries, exactly as in the directory:
Page 63: Amedeo Onfrio (Mary C) (Washington Club Bottling Works)...