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2569-4
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- 1935-05 (Creation)
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Mr. William Watson Jr., old time miller, at the Kenworthy Milling Company posing in his work overalls next to the machinery. Mr. Watson and his brother John helped start the Watson & Bradley flour mill with their father William Watson Sr., later Watson, Olds & Co., at 2310 East "D" Street. The Watson's plant was the first roller processed flour mill on the Puget Sound and their flour sold under the names "White Swan" & "Gold Dust." The plant sold in 1908, was dismantled & moved to Seattle. Mr. Watson went to work as miller for Kenworthy and has been there 27 years. He has been in the operating end of the flour business longer than any man in the Northwest. Photograph ordered by E.T. Short, columnist for the Tacoma Times. (T. Times 5/14/1935, pg. 14)
Kenworthy Grain & Milling Co. (Tacoma); Kenworthy Grain & Milling Co. (Tacoma)--Employees; Millers--Tacoma--1930-1940; Grain industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Watson, William;