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                        "*": "'''[[bio:Halsey, June E.|June E. Gibbs]]''' saved many records, now safely stored by the Knox Historical Society, while she managed '''[[Green Acres Mobile Home Park]]. Below are just a few of those records.\n\n[[File:19670104 Expense Sheet.jpg|250px|thumb|left|<center> '''Expenses for the Month of January, 1967''' - June Gibbs kept careful records of all expenses. This sample page shows her expenses for January of 1967. </center>]]\n\n[[File:19660609 First Mail.jpg|250px|thumb|center|<center>'''First Mail Received at Green Acres''' - This envelope, dated July 29, 1966, was the first mail received by June Gibbs addressed to her new trailer park, the Green Acres Mobile Home Park.\n </center>]]\n\n[[File:19681218 Electric Bill.jpg|250px|thumb|left|<center>'''Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation''' - Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, 126 State St., Albany, N. Y. 12201 provided power at a rate of just over 2 cents per kWh.  </center>]]\n\n[[File:19681025 Doctor Bill.jpg|250px|thumb|center|<center>'''Margery W. Smith, M. D. \u2013 Doctor\u2019s Bill''' - '''[[bio:Smith, Margery W.|Dr. Smith]]''' was a well-known physician in the Hilltowns for almost 50 years. She was known for making house calls when needed. She charged just $5.00 for this office visit.\n</center>]]\n\n[[File:Montogomery Ward Refunds.jpg|250px|thumb|left|<center>'''Montgomery Ward Refunds''' - Montgomery Ward was once a major catalog store and at times run successful retail stores. It has gone through many face-lifts and changes in ownership \u2013 none successful.\n  </center>]]\n\n[[category:Documents]] [[Category:Businesses]]"
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                "title": "Rural Albany County: Knox Pillbox Industry",
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                        "*": "[[File:HistoryLogo.jpg|71px|right|link=History|Go to History]]\n'''Rural Albany County: Its Romance and Industry''' \n\nRelics of Wooden Pillbox Industry Still Exist in Knox Township; Former Workers Describe Intricate Process\n \nEquipment Used for Home Manufacture Found on Farm \n\nIn this and succeeding articles of the series, the writer is to make an effort to portray each of the 10 towns of the county from a variety of angles\u2014its people, its crops, its industries, its history, and the part each plays in that \"'unit of highly cultured and civilized America we know as Albany County.\n \nBy RAY A. MOWERS \n\nWhy, of course, I remember the little oval wooden pillboxes,\" said a representative of the veteran wholesale druggists, J. L. Thompson & Sons Co., Inc. of Troy, but I never knew they made them in Knox.\n \nWe had a lot of them around the place until about a year ago when we sold them along with a lot of other obsolete goods to a broker in New York City. I never knew much about the wooden pillbox business.. But we have a Mr. Smythe here who probably does. He's been with us 40 years. And there's Mr. Water\u00acbury\u2014he's been here 60 years\u2014I'll ask him.\"\n \nA quick canvass of the older druggists in Albany failed to unearth a single basswood pillbox. It began to look as though all that remained of Knox's once great industry was the memory of the town's older inhabitants when suddenly samples of the boxes came to light in a perfectly natural but nevertheless unexpected place\u2014the Albany College of Pharmacy.\n \nOne large college room is being given over wholly to the installation of century-old equipment from the antique Throup drug store in Schoharie.\n \nIn its ancient stock of herbs and medicaments are to be found pills bearing the labels of long-forgotten makers contained in the little bass\u00acwood boxes which were turned out by 10,000 times 10,000 in the deft fingers of Knox's men, women and children.\n \n\"Why there must be some families living around here yet that have the equipment they used to use to make the boxes,\" said D. W. Stevens as he described the methods em\u00acployed in making the boxes. \"Call around at Elmer Quay's farm when you go over to see George Zeh. They're neighbors. The Quays must have some of the old tools lying around the house or the garage.\"\n \nMr. Zeh was not at home but the Quays were and it was the work of only a few minutes for then to assemble all the things required to make the wooden boxes except the tops for the covers and the bottom ovals. Even the gluepot, made like a double-boiler of today was available to the Albany Evening News photographer.\n \n'The first essential to the manufacture of the little articles which were shipped from Knox to the civilized quarters of the globe were special planes. The plane knives were set to shave the basswood in strips of standard and required thickness while at the same time cutting the broad shaving into strips of equal width. These strips were to form the sides of the boxes.\n \nTo get the proper length, the basswood blocks were cut to the right dimensions before the planes came into play. Strips from the sides of the bottom sections of the boxes were a trifle wider than those for the tops so that when matched together the lower edge of the cover did not come quite to the bottom of the box.\n \nMost of the Knox women, many of its men and some of the children became so adept at putting together the boxes, that the average daily product of one pair of hands was from 1,600 to 1,800. The pay was standardized at 12 1/2cents for each 400. The unit of manufacture was a tierce-10,000 boxes.\n \nA step in preparation for manufacture of the boxes simultaneous with that of planning the side strips was the use of the oval dies for rutting out the tops and bottoms, the former a trifle larger than the latter, of course, to permit the top of the box to it snuggling down upon its lower counterpart.\n \nThe dies were of metal and thousands of the oval basswood pieces could be stamped out of the sheets of thin basswood in a day. The stamping was done by placing the die on the wood and hitting it sharply with a mallet.\n \nPieces of lathed wood, about the shape and size of a modern package of cigarettes were used to fashion the wooden strips into the sides of the boxes.\n \nDeft fingers could handle as many as five of the strips at once, winding them once around the wooden moulds, flicking the ends with a single quick touch of the wooden glue paddle. Then, with a small implement like a paring knife, the glued ends were pressed down and the mould encircled with the five strips glued separately and enclosing its oval sides was popped into a block of wood notched to hold the moulds tightly until the glue was dry. These blocks of notched wood were known as \"gripes\" to the pillbox industry.\n \nOnce the glue was dried enough to hold the strips, now in oval form, were stripped rapidly from the moulds and either tops or bot\u00actoms glued flush with one edge of each strip.\n \nThis whole operation had to be completed twice for each box, the tops and the bottoms, the latter, as pointed out, a trifle smaller than the former to permit one to fit upon the other.\n \nSpecially constructed tables were built for pillbox workers, two of which still remain in the Quay's cellar where Mrs. Carrie Quay gave a demonstration of the lost art for the newspaper chronicler and his cameraman.\n \n\"I saw all this stuff lying around the other day.\" said Elmer Quay, her husband. \"And I thinks to my\u00acself, pshaw, I've got a good mind to burn it up. We won't ever have any use for it again. But I didn't and now I'm glad I didn't.\"\n \n\"Yes, I'm glad, too,\" spoke up Millard Quay, his son. \"I think Henry Ford might like these tools for his museum.\"\n \nHe was assured that if Ford didn't want them the State Museum un\u00acquestionably would like them to pre\u00acserve as optical concrete proof that New York State once nurtured an industry which has completely dis\u00acappeared from ken of man.\n \n\"We couldn't get the basswood any more,\" said several Knox residents in explaining the decline of the industry. \"I remember,\" added Mr. Stevens, \"that towards the last we had to go way over beyond Reidsville to get any wood at all and then it had to be seasoned right or it wasn't any good.\"\n \nMr. Stevens agreed that the industry might be revived under properly efficient management if bass\u00acwood could be shipped in to the Knox area where the surviving pill-box makers live. Metal boxes are used now for exporting pills, and for domestic uses the cardboard boxes do. But they tell me the pills exported in metal draw damp on the way and stick together. The wooden boxes would absorb the moisture and keep the pills in the same form in which they were shipped. I believe there still is a market for the wooden boxes but the pillmakers have given up trying to get them.\"\n \nTomorrow, you and I will take an intimate glimpse or two of New Scotland township, the only Helderberg town remaining to be explored for this series.\n \nTomorrow: New Scotland. \nALBANY, N. Y., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936 \nAbove, the planes used to produce shavings of basswood. On the right are some of the shavings, along the moulds or \"gripes.\" Extreme right, the dye for cutting out the oval tops and bottoms of the boxes.\n \nImplements and materials used in the making of wooden pill boxes at Knox. Now a lost art, the tools probably will be given to some museum.\n \nMrs. Carrie Quay sits at the special table she once used in making wooden pill boxes and demonstrates for the camera how the now lost art and industry was carried on.\n \nElmer Quay, left, and his son, Millard M. Quay displaying the glue pot and a plane used in pill box' manufacture at Knox.\n \nAlbany Evening News Photos"
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