Armour Cudahy Packing Co.
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The Cudahy meat packing industry dates back to the turn of the century. The Cudahy meat industry, with stockyards in Omaha, Chicago, Sioux City
and Los Angeles produced the REX brand of fine beef and pork products. The company also produced lard, soaps and patent medicine products
such as "Cudahy's Essence of Pepsin" and "Cudahy's Rexsoma" that used the animal byproducts. The patent medicines were marketed as
nutritional supplements for improved health!
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The Cudahy meat packing industry dates back to the turn of the century. The Cudahy meat industry, with stockyards in Omaha, Chicago, Sioux City
and Los Angeles produced the REX brand of fine beef and pork products. The company also produced lard, soaps and patent medicine products
such as "Cudahy's Essence of Pepsin" and "Cudahy's Rexsoma" that used the animal byproducts. The patent medicines were marketed as
nutritional supplements for improved health!
Cudahy Packing Company
The Irish-born Cudahy brothers started working in the Milwaukee meat business in the early 1860s; there they met Philip Armour, whom they
followed to Chicago during the 1870s. In the years that followed, the Cudahys operated small packing plants in Chicago. In 1887, with Armour's
backing, Michael Cudahy and his brothers started an Armour-Cudahy packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. The Cudahy Packing Co. was created in
1890, when Michael bought Armour's interest. Over the next 30 years, the company added branches across the country, including a cleaning
products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters were transferred from Omaha to Chicago. By the
mid-1920s, Cudahy was one of the nation's leading food companies, with over $200 million in annual sales and 13,000 employees around the
country. Although it was hard hit by the Great Depression, the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s.
Following World War II, the company moved its headquarters first to Omaha and, in 1965, to Phoenix, where it took the name Cudahy Co. During
the 1970s, after it was purchased by General Host, Cudahy was dismantled.
The Irish-born Cudahy brothers started working in the Milwaukee meat business in the early 1860s; there they met Philip Armour, whom they
followed to Chicago during the 1870s. In the years that followed, the Cudahys operated small packing plants in Chicago. In 1887, with Armour's
backing, Michael Cudahy and his brothers started an Armour-Cudahy packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. The Cudahy Packing Co. was created in
1890, when Michael bought Armour's interest. Over the next 30 years, the company added branches across the country, including a cleaning
products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters were transferred from Omaha to Chicago. By the
mid-1920s, Cudahy was one of the nation's leading food companies, with over $200 million in annual sales and 13,000 employees around the
country. Although it was hard hit by the Great Depression, the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s.
Following World War II, the company moved its headquarters first to Omaha and, in 1965, to Phoenix, where it took the name Cudahy Co. During
the 1970s, after it was purchased by General Host, Cudahy was dismantled.
Armours
Vigoral
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Vigoral
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Armours
Boullion Cubes
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Boullion Cubes
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Armours
Rexsoma 3.5" C9052
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Rexsoma 3.5" C9052
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Armours Vigoral Trade Card
approx. 3-1/4" x 5-1/2", with "DRINK Vigoral
FOR STRENGHT, NOURISHMENT AND
REFRESHMENT. PREPARED BY ARMOUR &
CO., CHICAGO, U.S.A."
Blue printed text on the Includes:
"Prepared by ARMOUR & COMPANY,
CHICAGO, from their celebrated Extract of
Beef, further strengthened in
muscle-forming constituents by the
addition of pure Beef in powdered form.
SUITABLY SEASONED. 'VIGORAL' is
designed especially to be used as a hot
drink, which, indeed, shall be both MEAT
and DRINK, and which shall repair waste
tissue and build up the body. A cup of
'VIGORAL' will be found most comforting
and sustaining by all engaged in outdoor
work or sport, by athletes, by brain
workers, by manual toilers, by travelers on
land or sea; in fact, 'VIGORAL' is A FOE TO
FATIGUE and a wholesome, invigorating
stimulant for old and young in all
climates...."
approx. 3-1/4" x 5-1/2", with "DRINK Vigoral
FOR STRENGHT, NOURISHMENT AND
REFRESHMENT. PREPARED BY ARMOUR &
CO., CHICAGO, U.S.A."
Blue printed text on the Includes:
"Prepared by ARMOUR & COMPANY,
CHICAGO, from their celebrated Extract of
Beef, further strengthened in
muscle-forming constituents by the
addition of pure Beef in powdered form.
SUITABLY SEASONED. 'VIGORAL' is
designed especially to be used as a hot
drink, which, indeed, shall be both MEAT
and DRINK, and which shall repair waste
tissue and build up the body. A cup of
'VIGORAL' will be found most comforting
and sustaining by all engaged in outdoor
work or sport, by athletes, by brain
workers, by manual toilers, by travelers on
land or sea; in fact, 'VIGORAL' is A FOE TO
FATIGUE and a wholesome, invigorating
stimulant for old and young in all
climates...."
Rex Potted Ham
Pinback Button
1" Whitehead & Hoag
Pinback Button
1" Whitehead & Hoag
Rex Veal Loaf
Pinback Button
1" Whitehead & Hoag
Pinback Button
1" Whitehead & Hoag
Armours
Rexsoma
Rexsoma
Armours
Veribest
Root Beer 6"
Veribest
Root Beer 6"
Royal Purple
Grape Juice
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Grape Juice
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