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J. M. Price, Grocer.
A gentleman who enjoys distinction in his section of the city is Mr. J. M. Price, whose grocery is situated at No. 918 Washington street. He has been established thirteen years, and has built up a large, superior trade. He now gives employment to several clerks, runs two delivery wagons, and has permanent customers in all parts of the city. The commodious, finely appointed store occupied is com- pletely filled with a superior stock of the freshest and choicest staple and fancy groceries of all kinds. Mr. Price is a native of Ohio and a member of the Retail Grocers, Association. He is a thoroughly reliable, upright merchant, and needs no better recommendation than the men- tion of his name.
M. F. Smith, Hatter.
One of the many who have added to the city's supremacy as a trade center is Mr. M. F. Smith, hatter and haberdasher, at No. 445 Summit street, who has built up not only a large, but exclusive trade. Mr. Smith buys direct from the leading manufacturers and jobbers, carries at all times a comprehensive line of hats and caps of the lead- ing makes, such as the Chapin and Bradford hats. In the furnishing goods line, one can here find the newest and best of the season's offer- ings, underwear, shirts, gloves, neckwear, etc. Mr. Martin F. Smith is a native of Toledo, and a young man of marked business ability. He is alive to the best interests of the city, being thoroughly public -- spirited, and is also highly esteemed by the trade.
Dr. A. T. Kline, Dentist.
Dr. A. T. Kline, whose elegant and well-equipped dental office is located at 335 Superior street, is one of the best known and foremost dentists of the strictly regular schools in Toledo. He has been in this city twelve years, and is a graduate of the dental department of Van- derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., one of the most renowned dental schools in the country, finishing his course there in 1880. Dr. Kline's practice is among the best people in the city, and while he works on strictly professional lines, he is always progressive and alert to all the best, latest and most approved modern methods in his work, as is
shown by the various electrical appliances and other apparatus which he uses in preparing teeth cavities for filling, without pain to the patient, as well as all other operations. The question is, why should not a learned and strictly professional dentist save his patient pain and inconvenience, and adopt progressive methods, as well as the skilled surgeon, in these days of scientific and professional progress. Dr. Kline, socially, is one of Toledo's prominent citizens, and his aim is to elevate the standard of his profession, and he ranks at the head among his people in the State.
The Ames-Bonner Company.
While excelling in a great number and variety of manufactured products, which are distributed from all sections of the United States,
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Toledo is an especially prominent center for the manufacture of high grade and superior articles in the line of brushes. The most promi- nent among the brush manufacturers is The Ames-Bonner Company,
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the largest brush manufacturers in America, if not in the world. Their brushes are known as the A, B, C Solid Back Brushes and consists of hair, cloth, bath, hat, nail, shoe, shoe sets, polishers, daubers, stove, scrub and horse, besides many other special varieties too numerous to mention, including their far-famed bicycle brush. It is hardly neces- sary to allude in detail to the reputation of the products of this com- pany, as they are so well known, but suffice to say that a visit to any jobbing house in the United States or Canada will at a glance at their stock of the A, B, C brushes, give one quite an idea of the business of the house which has so many distributing stations. These solid back brushes are made under patents conveyed to the Ames-Bonner Company of Toledo, Ohio, U. S. A., from the celebrated French engineer, Victor Gane, who devoted nine years to constructing the machines, and which, mechanically considered, are the peers of the typesetting or sewing machine. A solid back brush figuratively is misleading ; many are worthless in construction or durability, but the ones made by the Gane machines, each bristle knot is independently held in place by a steel anchor forged like a fish hook, wonderfully made, insuring security and .durability and warranted never to come apart. The Ames-Bonner . . Company is located at the corner of Ottawa and Lafayette streets. The factory is equipped throughout with an outfit of thoroughly improved modern machinery and all the necessary appliances of brush making, including two engines of seventy-five horse power each. A very large force is employed, consequently a number of families are dependent upon this company for a livelihood. The company maintains resident representatives in many of the principal cities of the United States, the most prominent of which are in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Paul, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, New Orleans, St. Louis and Atlanta, besides having traveling salesmen look after intermediate points ; thus covering the principal cities of the United States. The business was originally established in 1890 by Messrs. Ames & Bonner and successfully conducted by them until 1895 at which time the present company was incorporated with a capital stock of $400,000. The officers of this company are at present C. A. Byers, president and manager ; Joseph M. Gassam, vice-president ;
Joseph Gazzam Mackenzie, secretary and treasurer. The extensive business which engages their attention is one of unusual importance to this city, and the great extent and magnitude thereof calls for, and the results indicate administrative qualities of a high order on the part of those in charge of the Ames-Bonner Company.
Howe & Dixon, Electricians.
The advances of modern science as developed by the inventive genius of man, has marked the latter half of the present century as be- ing by all odds the most wonderful period in the world's history. So great, indeed, have been the discoveries and so universal their application to the wants of men, it may be said that " old things have passed away, and all things have become new" in a material sense. In the de- velopment of hitherto un- known forces, the United States has taken the lead over all other nations of the earth, and in no part of the country have the latest in- ventions and scientific ap- pliances been more gener- ally availed of than in northern Ohio. In the im- portant field of applied electrical power, Toledo is well to the foremost. There LAURENS P. DIXON. are as thoroughly expert electricians to be found here as anywhere on the globe. Among those who are especially prominent in this field of endeavor, attention is readily turned to the young and vigorous firm of Howe & Dixon, who occupy handsome business apartments at rooms
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403 and 404 National Union building. This firm has handsomely fitted up offices and has also a commodious laboratory or workshop in the basement of the same structure, where a number of expert workmen are employed. The line of business conducted embraces everything per- taining to electric lighting, in all its variations and ramifications, and so satisfactory has been their work, that they have already obtained many of the most desirable contracts awarded in this section since they have been engaged in the business. Specimens of their superior work and skill may be seen in the electric work on the well known "Schmidt block," the Toledo work house, Cook's hall, on the East Side, Court House and Millikin's hotel at Bowling Green, Ohio, also electric light plant for city of Bowling Green and another similar plant in same county, besides many other jobs of equal magnitude and importance. This firm is composed of Messrs. Percy H. Howe and Laurens P. Dixon, Mr. Howe being a native Ohioan and Mr. Dixon from Michigan. They are young gentlemen of sterling characters and of high attainments in their profession, and the impress they have made in their brief three years existence as a firm, coupled with their acknowledged skill and demonstrated expertness, augurs for them a brilliant business future.
The Toledo Brokerage Co.
The average Toledo business man of to-day is conspicuous for much of that indefinable quality, which, in the vernacular of the times, is epitomized under the name of " Hustler," and while this term is de- cidedly lacking in euphony, elegance, yet, when applied as an adjective, to an individual it invests that individual with a very American air. It signifies that such an one possesses a character distinctly and diamet- rically opposed to that of the unfortunate Mr. Micawber, who was always "waiting for something to turn up." The Toledo Brokerage Co., which was organized in October, 1896, and of which Mr. J. N. Charles Sedgwick is business manager, and Mr. S. O. Baker, secretary, must be classed as a " Hustler." Mr. Sedgwick was, himself, a " Knight of the Grip," for something like twenty-two years, and hence, "knows how it is himself." The seven traveling men now employed by this company, cover by rapid and quick trips, all parts of Northern
Ohio and Indiana and Southern Michigan, and have great success in the placing of large and valuable orders in the many lines represented by the company. They are manufacturers' agents in all lines, repre- senting none but the very best houses in each branch of business, securing orders from the trade and procuring special articles generally. Among the principal firms and companies represented are the Mineral- ized Rubber Co., patentees, manufacturers and importers of every de- scription of rubber and gutta percna goods, of 18 Cliff street, New York ; The Imperial Varnish Co., of Akron, O .; Milwaukee Bag Co., of Milwaukee, Wis. ; E. H. Stafford, manufacturer of office, school and church furniture, of Muskegon, Mich .; Goodridge Polish Co., of Camp- bells, Mass., and very many other leading houses in various lines .. Mr. Sedgwick is a fine example of the genus "Hustler," and is distin- guished for honorable dealing and a capacity for dispatching an immense amount of business in brief time. Very desirable offices are maintained in the National Union Building, and the absolute success. of the business is already more than a matter of conjecture.
The Moreton Truck & Storage Co.
Warehousing methods have undergone great changes of late years, none of which are more marked than the establishment of great fire proof buildings for the storage of miscellaneous merchandise, these warehouses being controlled and owned by responsible corporations. and the business being conducted systematically, in perfect order and absolutely without risk of loss to their patrons. The foremost concern in Toledo engaged in this industry, and which makes a specialty of the storage of carloads of goods intended for reshipment, is that of The Moreton Truck & Storage Company. This company conducts a very extensive business in this line and in their general trucking and storage business, being fully equipped for moving and delivering goods of every description, packing for shipment, pianos, household goods, etc., which necessitates the employment of a large force of men and numerous. trucks. The Moreton Truck & Storage Company was organized in 1883, and incorporated under the state laws of Ohio, with ample paid-in cap- ital. Its affairs have been judiciously directed by men of thorough
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experience and sound ability, and today the establishment rests upon a solid and permanently prosperous basis. As before stated, a leading feature is made of the re-distribution of goods on carload consignments. The company is continually receiving many carloads of farm imple- ments, machinery, garden and field seeds, etc., from manufacturers and wholesalers, which are placed in their warehouses, where they are held until orders are sent to reship them, then they are forwarded to various points over the differdent railroad lines running throughout Ohio, In- diana and Michigan. The company's facilities enables them to conduct this department in the most efficient manner, and the advantages they offer are fully appreciated by those who have had transactions with them. The company's business premises comprise a four-story brick warehouse, 60x120 feet in dimensions, at Nos. 232 234-236 Huron street; a five-story brick warehouse, 150x200 feet on the Clover Leaf railroad with which it is connected with a 500 feet side track; and large three-story brick stables, 100x120 feet in size, at Nos. 15 to 23 Huron street. The interior arrangement of the warehouses is perfect, and ever facility is afforded for the storage of merchandise and property of every description. The officers of the company are: President, Ed. H. Moreton; Vice-President, Milo J. Turner; Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. S. Turner. These gentlemen are well known in Toledo's com-
mercial and social circles, and are thoroughly identified with the pro- gress and prosperity of the community.
The Toledo Flour and Feed Co.
There is not, as will readily be acknowledged, among the great staple food products, any one that approaches flour in point of interest and importance, and it is therefore, in the nature of things that its pro- duction and sale should constitute one of the principal branches of activity in every center of commerce and trade. A flourishing and noteworthy concern in this line is that of the Toledo Flour and Feed Co., No. 508 Summit street. The business was established in 1895 by John Bullis and Wm. Jones, under the above title, and has grown to enormous proportions. The premises occupied are a two-story brick building. The firm carries a large stock of flour and feed, baled hay, straw, buckwheat flour, prepared buckwheat and pancake flour, and the famous Duluth Imperial Flour. The business of the house extends throughout Northern Ohio and Michigan, and traveling sales- men are constantly on the road in the interests of the house. Both gentlemen are natives of Canada, and are highly esteemed in business circles. Mr. Jones is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the City Water Works.
R. P. MATHIAS.
ESTABLISHED 1881.
G. MENGEL.
MATHIAS & MENGEL,
Fresco and House Painters.
ARTISTIC WORK IN
Fresco Painting, Wall Tinting, Paper Hanging, And House Painting.
DEALERS IN
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Special Designs and Estimates Furnished on Application.
617 ST. CLAIR STREET.
BELL PHONE 1584.
TOLEDO, OHIO.
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