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Show DESTROYED BY HRE AND AGAIN AT WORK. The Price Baking Powder Com pany of Chicago met with a very serious loss on the morning of Muy ISth, in the nearly total destruction destruc-tion by fire of its factory and offi-cfts. offi-cfts. No sooner had the flames been subdued than the work of restoration commenced, and the Company by prudent foresight, having had stored in outside warehouses ware-houses duplicate machinery, labels and supplies of raw materials in preparation for any emergency was enabled by energetic management to resume manufacturing within a very few days after the fire, thereby there-by causing its customers but a trifling delay in the filling of their orders. It is. now forty years since the goods manufactured by this company were first placed on the market, to Dr. Price being due the distinction of having prepared the first can of Cream of Tartar Baking Bak-ing Powder ever manufactured in any country. |
