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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1912
Page
8
Decatur highlights a new beet sugar factory as the only one in Indiana. During harvest, laborers migrate to cities seeking winter jobs in iron factories, though few stay for the full 100 days of the sugar harvest season.
Ground broken in 1912 and first beets delivered October 10 mark the start of Indiana’s only beet sugar plant. Under Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. of Decatur the huge facility, 840 feet long and fireproof, aims for 700 barrels daily at full capacity and plans to produce 10 000 tons of sugar in 100 run days with significant by products and farm beet programs.
A large sugar factory near Decatur spans two stories of concrete and brick, capable of holding fifteen million pounds of sugar. It features a $675 sewing machine, a $774 tiering machine, automatic stokers, and a day night machine shop with electricity powering operations. About 300 workers are employed in shifts, with an on site restaurant and bunkhouse for workers.
An old advertisement touts a specialist for men and women with chronic nervous and private diseases. It claims experience in head, nose, throat, lung, liver, kidney, stomach, heart, bowel, bladder, blood, skin, eye, ear, sexual diseases, and urinary issues. It promises cures for Bright's disease and various private ailments, addressing weakness and nervous debility in men.
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