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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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per cent of the worlds commerce is weighed, is a story with fewparallels in American industry. The product of a Vermont inventor who madehis own tools, patterns and dies, and who checkedeach stage of manufacture from the iron in thefoundry to the finished product, Fairbanks Scalesreflect the rugged honesty of Thaddeus Fairbanksand his infinite capacity for absolute, undeviatingaccuracy in every stage of their manufacture. The first Fairbanks Scale factory was a shedadjoining the Fairbanks implement works in St.Johnsbury,Vermont. In this factory in 1831 wasmade the first Fairbanks Scale, to be used forweighing hemp. In the present factory on thesame site are employed thousands of skilledworkmen who each year produce Fairbanks Scalesby the thousands. The reputation of Fairbanks Scales for accuracy,honesty and dependability has stood the test of90 years of the worlds industrial development,so that today they are justly dominant. ■a v, ***** I 3 111 M it 1 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 109
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no THE SATURDAY EVENING POST December 18,1920 (Continued from Page 107) The initiative had been his, though certainother people might claim the credit. Ofcourse he hadnt wanted to talk about itbefore. He guessed he could keep a closemouth as well as the next one. The Merle twin at this momentous mealsat as one enthroned, receiving tribute fromfawning subjects. His name was alreadyMerle Whipple, and he was going to havea pony to ride, and he would come some-times to see them. His cordial tolerance ofthem quite overcame Mrs. Penniman again.She had to feign an errand to the kitchenstove, and came back dropping the edge ofher apron from her eyes. Winona was ex-alted; she felt that her careful training ofthe child had raised him to this eminence,and she rejoiced in it as a tribute to hercapacity. Her labors had been richly re-warded. Dave Cowanalone seemed not tobe enough impressed by the honors heapedupon his son. He jestingly spoke of him asa crown prince. He said if you really hadto sta

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