Opening Day

ID: 2457 ~ Source: Waco, Texas: Business and Industry: Owens-Illinois, Inc. Vertical File, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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Opening Day

On the opening day of the Owens-Illinois plant in Waco, over three hundred customers came to inspect the plant and were treated to a special luncheon at the Raleigh Hotel.

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By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…