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Glass manufacturer of Muncie, Indiana, one of the largest commercial glass producers in the U.S. at the time. Foreclosed on Three Rivers Glass Company's mortgage notes in December …
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Farm-and-ranch lending institution Charles Tips helped organize in 1919, after returning from WWI Army service and before founding the glass factory. Headquartered in San Antonio.
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Museum in George West, Live Oak County, Texas, presided over by researcher Kevin L. Mackey. Hosted the 2017 Three Rivers Glass Company Glass and Bottle Show and maintains an ongoin…
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Held a near-total patent monopoly on automated glass-container manufacturing machinery in the early 20th century; initially refused to license equipment to Three Rivers Glass, prom…
Next: Independently verify the antitrust case identification (possibly Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States, 323 U.S. 386 (1945)) against a primary legal source if this ever needs to be stated as settled fact.
San Antonio coffee roaster, one of the oldest in the South, run by the Menger family (also owners of the Menger Hotel). Placed one of the largest single glass orders in Texas histo…
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Local committee, chaired by Mrs. William Hinnant, that organized the 1973 Texas Historical Marker dedication for the Three Rivers Glass Factory site — the seventeenth marker placed…
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Major national glass manufacturer that, per Charles Tips, built a large factory in Waco partly as a downstream result of Three Rivers Glass's success proving the Texas market. Also…
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Federal New Deal agency, headed by Jesse Jones, that provided government-guaranteed loans to ailing businesses. Approved a $100,000 loan for Three Rivers Glass Company in 1936, con…
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Railroad company whose newly surveyed line south of San Antonio drew Charles Tips to the site that became Three Rivers. Agreed to route the line through the Hamilton family's prope…
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Austin, Texas-based publisher (likely Michael David Smith's own imprint) that produced Texas Glass: An Illustrated History of The Three Rivers Glass Company, 1922-1937 in September…
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State agency (renamed from the Texas State Historical Survey Committee) that authorized and administers the Texas Historical Marker program, including the 1973 marker for the Three…
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'Three Rivers Glass Sales' of Three Rivers changed its name and relocated to become the Texas Industrial Investment Company of Houston, under Texas state charter effective July 10,…
Next: Determine whether this is the same effort as the Houston glass-factory venture John Matthijetz describes, or a distinct one.
The subject of this entire wiki. A commercial glassware manufacturer operating in Three Rivers, Texas from 1922 to 1938, founded by Charles R. Tips, incorporated with $50,000 capit…
Next: None — see wiki/topics/three-rivers-glass-company.md for the full narrative; this record is the catalog entry.
A second Tips-affiliated entity formed around October 1936, distinct from Tips Glass Sales Corporation, with no manufacturing plant of its own. Interpreted by researcher Kevin Mack…
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Sales entity, distinct from the Three Rivers Glass factory, through which Charles Tips continued selling glass under contracts he had already secured after losing the plant to Ball…
Next: A Texas Secretary of State corporate-filings search for 'Tips Glass Sales' 1933-1937 would resolve the entity's pre-foreclosure legal structure.