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WHEN MAYTAG MEANT QUALITY FARM PRODUCTSReprinted from MAYTAG BULLETIN Vol. XXV, No. 29 - Feb. 8, 1968By Charles W. JensenManager Public Relations Activities, The Maytag Company, Newton, Ohio 50208 It is doubtful that a farmer in the last decade of the 19th century would have agreed with the frivolous label "Gay Nineties." The mechanical wonders and labor-saving devices of today were far from reality in the 1890s. Hard work and long hours typified the farmer's life and the labor frequently was dangerous. Field workers of that period knew the dangers of hand-cutting on bundles of grain and feeding grain into the whirling cylinders of big threshing machines. Frederick Louis Maytag, a farm youth, was conscious of threshing dangers and, while working in the lumber business in Newton in 1892, he watched G. W. Parsons experiment with and build a band cutting and se... 826 of 5261 characters shown.
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