Waxed Paper: Erie Railroad Bill of Lading

As we head towards the holidy season, candy companies are also entering one of their biggest seasons.  In addition to making the candy, the firms also need to worry about packaging.  Over 110 years ago, Rochester Candy Works ordered a lot of waxed paper from The Hammerschlag Manufacturing Company in Garfield, New Jersey, which shipped the lot by rail via the Erie Railroad to Rochester, N. Y. 

ERIE

APR

RR.     19    CO.

1901

GARFIELD,

N.J.

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The Erie RR cancel above takes the diamond form of the Erie RR logo:

International Pulp Company

INTERNATIONAL PULP. CO.

JUN

14

1899

INTERNATIONAL PULP CO.

FEB

27

1900

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International Pulp was first featured on this site back in June 2012.  International Pulp, like many forest products firms, also engaged in other industries that took advantage of their large land holdings.  In this way Internatinoal Pulp became an asbestos firm. 

International Paper Company

International Paper's +50 year old brand logo designed in the early 1960s by Lester Beall.  Organized in 1898 of of sixty smaller paper firms, the company continues today as the largest paper and pulp company in the world.  The company is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

SEP

17 & 20

1898

NEW YORK.

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Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company Promissory Note

PHOENIX PAPER MFG CO

Seven 2c stamps placed "tapeworm" style on a promissory note

Seven 2c documentary stamps for a total of 14 cents were used to pay the taxes on this $620 promissory note. 

Very little shows up in the historical record I have access to regarding the Phoenix Paper Manufacturing Company.

New York Stock Brokers: Jacob Kirkner

J. KIRKNER

JAN

9

1902

NEW YORK.

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Jacob Kirkner was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Produce Exchange.

The New York Times, December 15, 1909:

Samuel Simpson & Company

SAMUEL SIMPSON & CO.

1

AUG

1899

PHILADELPHIA.

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There is little history available to me on Mr. Simpson and his company, save for the report of a legal case between owners of the firm Samuel Simpson & Company in the 1901 Pennsylvania State Reports.

Samuel Simpson & Company was reported to be in the business of importing and selling goat skins and other merchandise at 429 North Third Street in Philadelphia. 

Due to legal issues in a firm in which a J. Harry Lyons was involved, he could not become a partner in a new firm.  Samuel Simpson & Company was established when the mother of J. Harry Lyons, Elizabeth J. Lyons, established a firm with Mr. Samuel Simpson in which J. Harry Lyons would be employed with a salary. 

The firm Samuel Simpson & Company would be reasonably successful, but with the end of the partnership in March 1899, Mr. Simpson treated Mr. Lyons as his true partner and refused to open the books of the firm to Elizabeth Lyons.  Hence the court case ensued.

By the date of this cancel in August 1899 it is clear that some aspects of the firms operation were still underway after March 1899. 

F. DeHass Simonson

Front page advertisement

The Newtown Register, May 16, 1911

F. DeHASS SIMONSON

APR

12

1900

ELMHURST, N.Y.

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company

AMERICAN TELEPHONE

DEC

19

1899

& TELEGRAPH CO.

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Corporate structure