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DUBUQUE BUTTER AND MILK COMPANY
DUBUQUE BUTTER AND MILK COMPANY. Dubuque Butter and Milk Company opened in Dubuque for business on June 8, 1903. Formerly located in Elgin, Illinois, the firm was encouraged to move to Dubuque by the Dubuque Retailer's League. (1)
The company was located in a building at the corner of Locust and Jones that once was occupied by the EXCELSIOR BRASS WORKS. According to a newspaper article at the time "the company will place in the market pasteurized hermetically bottled milk which is considered the purest milk that can be had." (2) It was also noted that "wagons will be numerous about the streets." (3) The company actually owned five. (4) In October the firm demonstrated to the board of health and doctors of Dubuque how milk was "purified." (5)
In 1906 company representatives acknowledged rumors that all or part of the business would be leaving the city for Chicago. The company had been a major improvement in the southern portion of the city offering many jobs for its twenty-four hour operation. (6)
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Source:
Dr. Darryl Mozena
1. "New Company Starts," Dubuque Telegraph Herald, June 7, 1903, p. 6
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. "Pure Milk Process," Dubuque Telegraph Herald, October 31, 1903, p. 6
5. Ibid.
6. "Butter and Milk Company May Move," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, June 18, 1906, p. 9