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How Ball Brothers took Three Rivers Glass, told through three procedural accounts: Tips' own story (a San Antonio attorney hired to secure RFC-loan priority secretly served Ball, w…
Charles Rudolph Tips (born June 5, 1892) founded the town of Three Rivers, Texas in 1913 and the Three Rivers Glass Company in 1922, built it into a national glass-container concer…
Did the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. switch its Crystalvac jar production to Owens-Illinois before Three Rivers Glass shut down? The evidence — from H&H's own surviving-jar collectio…
Who actually designed and cut the molds for Three Rivers glass. The named record is thin: David J. Jones (staff mould maker from 1928), the anonymous 'master mold makers' H. S. War…
The popular account (Ball acquired the factory in 1937, closed 1938) collapses a more eventful sequence: recurring short shutdowns for maintenance/mechanization through the 1920s-3…
Three Rivers Glass Co.'s second factory: the former Bastrop Glass Co. plant at Bastrop, Louisiana, taken over in June 1929 and operated until 1933, when it became the first Three R…
The sales entity Charles R. Tips ran, distinct from the Three Rivers Glass factory itself, after losing the plant to Ball Brothers Glass Company in the December 1936 foreclosure. T…