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Show THE CHAMPION PIE MAKER With a record of approximately 40,000,000 pies to his credit, Richard Webb, of Toledo, Ohio, is said to be the champion pie baker of America. ' Webb has been baking pies for 39 years and has averaged more than 3,000 pies a day during this period. Some days production has run at the rate of 1 1 ,000 pies a day. Webb was born in Brighton, England, in 1858. He came to the United States in 1881, and went to work with a Toledo baking concern. - The oven he uses for pie baking is gas-fired, rotary brick oven, 20 fet in diameter, 8 feet high, with a concrete foundation 7 feet deep. The walls of the oven are more than 2 feet thick and the entire structure contains as many bricks as a fair-sized house. |