(2) Vintage Corked Bottles Great Seal The Styron, Beggs Co. Newark Ohio

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(2) Vintage Corked Bottles Great Seal The Styron, Beggs Co. Newark Ohio. Small bottle is 5 x 2  1/2". Larger bottle is 6" x 3". Both are free of chips. In very good condition for age. One has original cork, which will be baggef and included.
Styron, Beggs & Company
Styron, Beggs & Company was a Newark, Ohio manufacturing company specializing in grocers’ drugs, flavoring extracts, ammonia, bluing and home remedies. These products were sold under the Great Seal brand name. The company was founded in 1895 and, in 1909, employed between sixty and seventy people, not including approximately 12 traveling salesmen. [1]
While some sources cite the beginning of The Styron Beggs Company being 1893, the first mention of the business in the Newark City Directory is in the 1895-1896 edition and places the offices at 201-3 North 4th Street in downtown Newark.[2] In 1897, the Secretary of State certified the incorporation of the Central Ohio Chemical Company of Newark. Listed as incorporators are Frank L. Beggs, John L. Styron, Harry Swisher, John H. Swisher and Edward W. Crayton. [3]
In December of 1909, Frank L. Beggs, one of the founders and president of the company at the time, was fined for misbranding of lemon flavor by the Food and Drug Administration. The label of the Manhattan Compound Lemon product claimed that it contained 1.25% lemon oil; however, analysis of the product showed “only a mere trace of lemon oil” was present. [4]
In January of 1916, Frank L. Beggs, who had quite the political career and reputation for philanthropy, announced that The Styron Beggs Company would be moving into the former Swisher Building at 39 South 4th Street in Newark.[5] This building was demolished in 2003 to make room for a new Newark Police Department. [6]