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Mellor & Rittenhouse Company
| Name | Mellor & Rittenhouse Company |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | North 22nd Street 214-220 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Lakritzfabrik |
| Quellenangaben | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 176] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1863 |
Gründung unter der Firma "Parrish & Mellor" |
| 1864 |
Umwandlung von "Parrish & Mellor" in "Mellor & Rittenhouse" |
| 1866 |
Eingetragen (incorporated) |
| 1887 |
Umwandlung aus "Mellor & Rittenhouse" in "Mellor & Rittenhouse Company" |
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Kommentar |
| Lakritz |
1863 |
Gründung |
1891 |
[Philadelphia] |
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| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Whose office and laboratory occupy the buildings from 214 to 220 North Twenty-second street, Philadelphia, was established in 1863 and incorporated in 1866. Its officers are, Alfred Mellor, president; William B. Ridgely, secretary and treasurer, and Robert Coleman, Jr., manager. The firm as first organized was known as Parrish & Mellor, and under that name it was continued for a year. The firm name was then changed to Mellor & Rittenhouse, and under that title it operated until 1887, when it was re- organized with the Mellor & Rittenhouse Company. The business while including the manufacture of various chemicals was principally concerned with the manufacture of licorice in its various forms: as Spanish and Turkish licorice paste, powdered extract licorice, powdered licorice root, selected licorice root, peeled
licorice root (powdered), M. & R. stick licorice, licorice lozenges. In fact, licorice is here made in every form and for every purpose. In 1876 the Mellor & Rittenhouse Company received the Centennial Medal awarded for "purity, general excellence and cheapness." At Paris at the exhibition of 1878 it had the highest reward for excellence. The trade of this firm extends all over this continent, and throughout Europe to Australia, in fact it has a business all over the world, and it is conducted strictly by jobbers. Oue of the most important and most expensive departments connected with the Mellor & Rittenhouse Company is that which involves the collection of the raw materials. This is brought direct by ships to the Philadelphia factory from Syria, Turkey in Asia, Spain and Sicily. This company have competed with all the manufacturers of licorice in the world and have in every case carried off the first prize. They intend to protect this reputation, and have already arranged for space at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893. The capacity of their factory is 4.000.000 pounds per year. Licorice was used by the ancients as well as in our modern times as an article of materia medica. It was always considered emollient, demulcent, and useful against catarrh and irritations of the raucous membranes. In England the cultivation of the licorice plant is at least as old as the times of Elizabeth. The licorice roots have been extensively imported by brewers. The black inspissated extract of those roots is known as black sugar, and is the stick licorice so common throughout the world. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 176] |
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