organizations

Hartford-Empire's dealings with Three Rivers as licensor, enforcer, and custodian of the correspondence that survives in the trial record

Corporate identity note on the entity that foreclosed on Three Rivers Glass, with unresolved name variations across documents

A farm-and-ranch lender Tips helped organize in 1919, establishing his financial credibility before founding the glass company

One of Three Rivers Glass's largest named customers, documented producing 61,000 chili-powder bottles per day in 1927

The George West museum whose president, Kevin Mackey, is this project's most active living researcher on Three Rivers Glass

The best-documented Three Rivers Glass customer, with the 1932 Crystalvac order and evidence of dual-sourcing from Owens-Illinois

The county body that organized the 1973 Three Rivers Glass Factory marker dedication, chaired by Mrs. William Hinnant

The statewide buy-Texas campaign Tips led as general chairman, promoting Three Rivers Glass as a Texas-made alternative

The railroad whose route through Live Oak County drew Charles Tips to the site where he founded Three Rivers

The Austin imprint, likely Michael David Smith's own, that published Texas Glass in 1989

The state authority behind the 1973 Three Rivers Glass Factory marker, an organization Tips himself helped lead as its second president

A Houston entity renamed from Three Rivers Glass Sales in July 1937, possibly related to Tips' post-foreclosure glass-factory ventures

The RFC's conditionally approved $100,000 loan for Three Rivers Glass, which failed when the attorney betrayed the lien-subordination negotiation

Ball Brothers Company's dealings with the Three Rivers plant, as documented in its own subpoenaed correspondence

The glass company two Three Rivers men founded at Santa Anna after the receivership, which Hartford pursued and which failed by April 1936

Owens-Illinois's documented refusal to purchase Three Rivers, correcting Tips' claim that it was among the companies that destroyed him

Knox Glass as a contemporary Hartford licensee in the trial record and as the employer of displaced Three Rivers workmen at Palestine