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au»andromladeasis‘tur-pay»tafftrialillerf ofpro-spe-1merthebeign-»und?en-as-h avingthe*andsionlentspe-icu-waszedloy-t tocon'ofnsinisixA a J ( ' * ■ 7 » . v , . • * ' 1 * . lt;.mmm-*-ilpi—Tribune PhotoA Relic Of The Daji when Buffalo Bill Cody and Dr. Frank Powell (White Beaver) were in business in La Crosse has been in use nearly 35 years in the building occupied by La Crosse Tool and Die Co., 315 S. Front St. The massive safe has the name Cody on one door and Powell on the other. It is decorated with now faded oil paintings symbolic of the partners. The safe was purchased from a Junk dealer by B. Ott and Sons about 1923, many years after Cody and Powell went out of business and was retained by the tool and die company when it went into the building about 10 years ago.Huge, Heavy Safe Of Cody/em* The re re to the lemPowell Used B yLocal FirmNtmillernthavicon:ehaothctrathisRviev of ttestcalpie*ly ter :v11polidirtficechahasstatliticnarKolgovTchaprusenask of i takirherleretaleom-iingisesSmailingof-Friends of the frontier days In Nebraska, Buffalo Bill Cody and Dr, Frank Powell, who was several times mayor of La Crosse, were partners in a business here some 60 years ago.The partners had a highly advertised patent medicine firm and also produced a roasted bran coffee substitute at 114-116 N, Front St.When they discontinued the business Is not clear in the records. But the safe they used still is in existence and judging from its weight and size, it will remain a long time where it is.The safe was left in the building for some years and finally was sold to a Junk yard. It was purchased for $36 about 32 years agoby B. Ott and Sons Machine Shop.• 315 S. Front St., and taken over by La Crosse Tool and Die Co. about110 years ago. iBelow the name Cody on the left jdoor is an oil painting, now barely jvisible, of Buffalo BUI mounted on, his horse. At the bottom is a paint-: ing of a buffalo head. IOn the right door, beneath the name Powell, the doctor is por-jtrayed as White Beaver among! |his Indian friends and at the bottom is a painting of a white beaver. j| Inner sides of the heavy doors; , have paintings of sprays of red j | roses, still well preserved. Inside doors of the safe have scenic pic-i lures and bear the name of Hall's Safe and Lock Co., Cincinnati and Chicago.are The dri1 of triblroaTtheTheto iwa’w-slotAcip the enf nlt;theextm i i» «
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La Crosse Sunday Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Jun 17, 1956
Page 13
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