Very interesting...

Thanks much! Wiktor A. Kuc

-----Original Message----- From: Kirk Eppler
[mailto:eppler.kirk@g...]Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 11:14 PM To:
Wiktor.Kuc@w...
Cc: John Holladay; Old Tools Subject: Re: [OldTools] Lakeside Back Saw
    and Miter Box

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Wiktor Kuc  wrote:
>
>
> The Iron Trade Review, February 13, 1908:
>
> The Lakeside Saw & Tool Co., 120 Michigan avenue, Chicago, to>
> manufacture tools and hardware appliances, has been incorporated
> by J. F.
McFadden, J.
> K. Mayne and George R. Dugan with $1,000 capital stock.
>
>

Lakeside Saw & Tool was listed at 618 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago

in a=A0 Certified list of domestic and foreign corporations published in
1920 by the Illinois Sect of State.=A0 New location is more inland, but
according to current number schemes, it is a river front location.

Checking on that address, it as later listed as MW corporate
headquarters in 1935 according to Chain Store Age.

And going even further back, MW is listed at 111 to 120 Michigan Ave
Chicago in an 1897 publication. Libraries: a monthly review of library
matters and methods, Volume 2.

Hmm, maybe they were only a shell company the whole time?

There is also a no preview hit on a 1922 MW catalog.

Kirk in HMB, giving up for the night.

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