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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9919738, member: 5833&quot;]From that listing:</p><p><br /></p><p>TUFT&#039;S ARCTIC SODA FOUNTAIN CO. CONSOLIDATED WITH A. D. PUFFER &amp; SONS OF BOSTON, <b>JOHN MATHEWS OF NEW YORK</b> AND CHARLES LIPPINCOTT OF PHILADELPHIA TO FROM THE AMERICAN SODA FOUNTAIN CO. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was wondering whether John Matthews, The Soda Fountain King, would come into this.&nbsp; He was a Brit who was first to bring a process for carbonating water to the US.&nbsp; After buying an intaglio ring said to have belonged to one of his descendants I got interested in learning a bit about him &amp; found that as a source for the needed calcium carbonate he used rubble left from the construction of St. Patrick&#039;s Cathedral.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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