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WATTERS & DENNIS
WATTERS & DENNIS. A flour and feed mill in Dubuque, Watters & Dennis announced after completing their office renovations in February 1892 that the company would be offering customers a lunch of "Aunt Jemima buckwheat cakes, Pillsbury doughnuts, washed down with cornmeal gruel." (1)
The store was totally destroyed by fire on May 27, 1895. Started, it was thought by a locomotive spark, the roof on the building used to store about 100 tons of hay was burning by the time the fire department arrived. Spreading quickly, the fire reached the entire structure by the time a fire hose had been unrolled. Quick action on the part of the firemen saved the rest of the block of buildings. (2)
A new flour and feed store owned by the company was opened on June 12, 1898 with public and private offices. (3)
Advertising its "Prairie Queen" flour, the company supplied the supervisors and every office in the DUBUQUE COUNTY COURTHOUSE with fans advertising the product in 1900. (4)
See: W. S. DENNIS
See: Albert DENNIS
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Source:
1. "Municipal Molecules," Dubuque Daily Herald, February 19, 1892, p. 4
2. "Epidemic of Fire," Dubuque Herald, May 28, 1895, p. 8
3. "Caught on the Fly," Dubuque Herald, June 12, 1898, p. 5
4. "Caught on the Fly," Dubuque Herald, June 7, 1900, p. 5