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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 229
MADE IN SANDUSKY
These articles are made in Sandusky and sent all over the world:
Auto trucks, auto axles, auto motors, auto transmissions, auto wheels,
aeronautic motors, air compressors, baskets, bitters, boilers, bolsters,
brass castings, brick, building tile, buggies, barrels, billiard chalk, blinds,
carriages, carriage wheels, cigar boxes, corrugated bottle wrappers, corrugated
paper boxes, corrugated paper bolsters, candy, cement, cement
blocks, cider, crayons, chalks, champagne, dray wheels, doors, engine
mufflers, friction clutches,- frictionless ball bearings, frictionless roller
bearings, fish barrels, fire escapes, fish oil, farm motors, fertilizers, gas
engines, gasoline engines, glass, glass blowing machines, gloves and mittens,
grape juice, hollow tile, hydraulic machinery, inner casing for
auto tires, iron castings, iron fences, ice tools, jail cells, kraut barrels,
lime, machinery bearings, marine motors, nuts and bolts, ornamental
iron work, oil engines, proprietary medicines, power boats, paints, paper
mill machinery, pulleys, paper boxes, pumps, planes, row boats, school
crayons, sashes, screens, skirts, soap, steel castings, truck wheels, tailors'
chalk, thread cutting machines, underwear, vises, wagons, Avagon wheels,
wines, wine machinery, Avine casks, Avood working machinery, wooden
boxes, window glass, washing machines.
INDUSTRIAL SANDUSKY
When the up-to-date native of the Island of Java now takes his dusky
sweetheart out for a boat ride, in these advanced days, he uses a motor
boat, and the chances are that the motor which propels the little vessel
through the tropic waters Avas constructed in Sandusky. Marine motors
are being shipped from Sandusky factories to Java, China, South Africa
and other far aAvay parts of the world.
Other Sandusky products have an equally wide distribution. The
merchant tailor of Cape Town uses chalk made in Sandusky to mark his
goods for cutting. The traveler on Australian-New Zealand steamers,
groAving thirsty, finds his favorite vintage packed in corrugated paper
Avrappers made in Sandusky. The traveler in Japan and China sees
Sandusky made engines doing many kinds of work and the automobilist
touring Europe, if he looks closely, will likely find that some important
part of his machine has been made in Sandusky.
Sandusky boxes, Sandusky carpenters' and farmers' tools, Sandusky
barrels, Sandusky washing machines, Sandusky roller bearings, large and
small, will be found all over the United States and in many foreign lands.
No claim is made that Sandusky is a great manufacturing center
compared Avith cities Avhere the steel industry has gained a strong foothold,
but neither is Sandusky a "dead " city, industrially speaking. The
products of its factories are noted everyAvhere for their high quality and
every concern is doing a good, substantial business.
A personal canvass during the past few Aveeks of a large majority of
the manufacturing plants of the city revealed the fact that nearly all are