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Robert
Hatch
Robert Hatch was the owner of Saint Joseph Iron Works in Saint Joseph, Michigan which produced fruit basket making machinery.
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These basket machines went all over the country, all over the world as a matter of fact. It was a very successful operation. In the late [19]30s-early [19]40s, things began swinging a little bit away from stapling baskets. Now they don’t use hardly any wood baskets. Most of it’s now plastic, and they can zip those things off in a plastic machine at a great rate.
Oh
boy, it breaks my heart when I see what’s happening out in our area here;
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