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Warren Webster
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His Great Hour
The year 1938 was the fiftieth in the history of Warren Webster & Company and as the summer approached the Organization began laying plans to celebrate the Golden Jubilee and do honor to the Founder.
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Thanks to Our Pilot
From 1919 to 1930, the tat-tat of pneumatic riveters resounded from Coast to Coast and border to border as tens of thousands of buildings rose all over the land.
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First National Convention
In 1911," said Warren Webster , "our Company held its first national convention. For this event I engaged quarters at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia. Pretty nearly everyone connected with the Company attended and we had a great time.
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Adoption of "Sylphon" Bellows
I will go five hundred miles to investigate anything said to be equal or better than ours," my father once told me.
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The Kane Affair
Early in the 1900's I made arrangements with the New Bedford Engineering Company to represent us," said Warren Webster . This concern was owned by Thomas B. Kane, of Boston, and a man named White.
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The "Turn of the Century"
At Midnight on the last day of the 19th Century, pistols barked, fire-crackers exploded, horns tooted, factory whistles shrieked and bells chimed solemnly—just as on other New Year Eves.
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Work and Growth
For Warren Webster and his Organization, the "Gay 90's" were years of hard work and growth. Said my father: "I did most of the selling out in the field from 1888 to 1912 or 1914. And how I loved it!
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Warren Webster Enters the Heating Industry
In THAT busy, pushing, turbulent year of 1888, Warren Webster was doing well with his profitable ventilator and brass casting business, but on every hand new enterprises were on the way and he, like all his world, was on the lookout for Opportunity.
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The Years 1876 to 1888
The year 1888 is the key-year in Warren Webster's business career. His handling of his affairs in that year—at the age of twenty-five, establishes beyond question the quality of his foresight and judgment.
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He Goes to Work
On April 23, 1881, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Warren Webster graduated from Union Business College, now Pierce's Business College, in Philadelphia. His first thought was to get a job.
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Back in Philadelphia - Growing Up
In the latter part of 1876, the Webster family moved back to Philadelphia, occupying a home at 1709 Columbia Avenue.
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1876 — The Centennial
Modern America—mechanical America as we know it, with machinery and devices to facilitate practically every action in life, is a matter of evolution.
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Childhood at Woodbury, NJ
My grandmother's maiden name was Sarah Holmes Thorn. She was a farmer's daughter and both she and my grandfather were born in New Jersey.
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Under Lowering Clouds
It is a generally accepted theory that protracted epochs of great mental strain and emotion, such as occasioned by war or pestilence, exert a definite influence on the characters of children born during the period.
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An Appreciation
"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man"—never were these oft-quoted words of Emerson more truly applicable than to my father. His character and personality are interwoven in every policy and method of Warren Webster and Company .
People
Warren Webster
The building, now vacant and boarded up for many decades, once housed a company whose brand was once synonymous with excellence in its field, but has now faded into obscurity.
Hotels and Motels
Hotel Walt Whitman
The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort.
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N.R.A. Drive Here Opens Tomorrow; Committee Named
168 Shoemakers in Three Counties Form Code; Big Firms Sign Pacts Honor Roll Lists 1749 The personnel of the National Recovery Act campaign committee for Camden city and county was announced yesterday by Chairman Clinton L. Bardo .
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Whiz Five to Clash with Peerless Foe
Industrial League Starts Pennant Scramble at Convention Hall Annex Tonight All the tension connected with advance preparations will subside at 8 o'clock tonight when two of the eight teams in the Camden County Industrial League start the race for the 1930 championship.