March 25, 2025
Tag: Dixie Cup Postcards
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The Dixie Cup Company
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Have you heard the adage that “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”? The Dixie Cup Company is an example of how the need for clean drinking containers came to be just at the right time. It all began in Boston in 1907 when a mechanical engineer, a lawyer, and several investors got together to create…
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October 8, 2024 10 Comments
“Tragedy” and “Disaster” are both ugly words. Tragedy involves great suffering, distress, and destruction. Disaster describes a sudden event or accident that causes great damage and involves loss of life. By definition of these two words the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was both. And a century old tradition continued – making postcards to tell the story.