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ALOIS HASEL
ALOIS HASEL. A manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer of cheese, A. Hasel at 1221 Iowa Street in 1910 was one of the Upper Mississippi Valley's most famous businesses. The company did not own any processing plants of its own. It annually contracted with factories which were nearly entirely dependent upon it for the making of a certain variety of cheese in certain amounts. One factory might make cream cheese while another made brick. (1)
In the ten years between 1900 and 1910, A. Hasel annually did $60,000 in business handling 400,000 pounds of cheese. Between 3,000 and 4,000 rounds of cheese comprising 167 varieties were kept in stock at all times. (2)
A. Hasel did business throughout the United States and into Canada and Mexico. Two salesmen were kept on the road, but often to get contracts signed with producers rather than sell products. (3)
In 1910 the Hasel estate in Dubuque sold the business to Brinkman and Federspiel. (4)
The 1903 Dubuque County Rural Route Directory through 1910 Dubuque City Directory listed 1221 Iowa.
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Source:
1. "Hasel, the Cheese Man, Handles Total Output of Dozen Factories," Telegraph Herald, February 27, 1910, p. 1
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. "Creamery and Dairy News," American Produce Review. New York: Urner-Barry Company, April 27, 1910, p. 706