Kimble is making glass cigar boxes

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Star

Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 82, no. 222, p. 4, col. 2


Seen and Heard in

Our Neighborhood

By Dick Greene

 

RAMBLINGS OF THE DAY . . . Ernie Parkison, 2215 S. Grant St., was reading the notations about cigar boxes, the wooden type so commanly [sic] commonly seen, and he hastened to call attention that Kimble Glass Company makes cigar boxes of glass.

 

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Ernie, an employe of Kimble, brought one of them this way and asked. “Do you know what it is?

I promptly replied that it looked like a dish for beans.

The transparent glass box, with its glass lid, is among the products of Kimble, a subsidiary of Owens Illinois Glass Company. It holds 40 cigars and is sold especially at this time of the year to cigar manufacturers. It is a gift item.

Learn something new every day. . . .

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Keywords:Hemingray : Owens-Illinois Glass Company : Kimble Glass Company
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Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:February 1, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;