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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 171615, member: 136&quot;]re: The Acme fire</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m really not trying to be picky here, but I think that somewhere along the way, someone posted a &quot;bad date&quot; on the net, &amp; this misinformation has been picked up &amp; repeated by lots of others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only mention this because so many entries I saw indicated that the Acme fire was in 1916. Actually, it apparently was in 1922.</p><p><br /></p><p>The South Bend <i>News-Times </i>had a front page article the day after the fire, which you can read here:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">South Bend News-Times, Volume 39, Number 186, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 5 July 1922</font></p><p><a href="https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&amp;d=SBNT19220705.1.1&amp;srpos=7&amp;e=04-06-1922-15-07-1922--en-20-SBNT-1--txt-txIN-acme+fire------" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&amp;d=SBNT19220705.1.1&amp;srpos=7&amp;e=04-06-1922-15-07-1922--en-20-SBNT-1--txt-txIN-acme+fire------" rel="nofollow">https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&amp;d=SBNT19220705.1.1&amp;srpos=7&amp;e=04-06-1922-15-07-1922--en-20-SBNT-1--txt-txIN-acme+fire------</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The South Bend Fire Dept history site also showed the fire to be July 4, 1922:</p><p><a href="http://historymuseumsb.org/south-bend-fire-departments-history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://historymuseumsb.org/south-bend-fire-departments-history/" rel="nofollow">http://historymuseumsb.org/south-bend-fire-departments-history/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The same South Bend paper has many, many mentions of Acme, including an article on July 8, 1921 stating that Acme “was organized eight years ago” (thus, c.1913) and due to rapid expansion and increased sales, “substantial additions” were being planned for the South Bend plant and the company’s other plant in Chattanooga, TN.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bring up the dates here because they seem to alter the apparent age of Ariel&#039;s lovely chest just a bit. If what the South Bend newspaper says is true, the chest was most likely made between 1913 and 1922.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know - picky, picky, picky. Sorry. -C -[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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