Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — MILLIONS IN BOTTLE CAP [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS IN BOTTLE CAP

Jewish Peddler Staked Savings on Baltimore Man's Invention, and Made Much Money. Howmany persons, householders or others, who have had occasion to remove the little tin caps from catsup or other bottles —beer bottles, for that matter —ever gave a thought to the little wrinkled edge affair that keeps the contents from the air and holds •it in its original form? It’s a good guess that not one In a thousand. It’s an unpretending little affair, but It has a most interesting history, so far sa results count. •'» It was upward of a quarter of a century ago that a man named Tajntor of Baltimore bethought himself of the cap and succeeded in bringing it to a successful demonstration. He was a poor man, and 11 was uphi 11 work trying to interest moneyed men in his invention. A traveling Jew peddler of jewlery and. “nicknacks,” by the name of Friedenwaldt, became interested, took his years of savings, amounting to dome $5,000, from the bank, and Invested in the invention. Years went by and the peddler lived to see factories all over the world resulting from his investment. Good judges assert that more than $50,000,000 dollars was divided among those interested in the simple little device.