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| − | {{Media annotation|Media category=Newspaper artlcle|Organization name=Wooster Brush Company, The|Location=|Location note=|Day=16|Month=12|Year=1936|Time period=|Creator=Arthur Gossard|Contributor=|Publisher=|Source=|Digital publisher=|Rights=|Collection=|Image number=|Description photo=|Newspaper title=The Daily Record|Newspaper section=|Page number=12|Series title=Wooster Industries|Article title=The Wooster Brush Co.|Publication title=|Object type=|People=|Status=|Subject tags=|Full text=}}
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| − | NOTE-- This is one of a series of articles the Daily Record is publishing about Wooster industries. The series is intended to familiarize the general public with products which are made in Wooster by Wooster people. The articles were suggested by The [[Wooster Board of Trade]] to encourage the use of home-manufactured products.
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| − | By Arthur {{Surname|Gossard}}.
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| − | The [[Wooster Brush Company, The|Wooster Brush company]] was founded in 1851 by Adam {{Surname|Foss}}, grandfather of the present Foss management. The size of the plant and number of employees has increased from the original single owner to the large factory of today.
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| − | Millions of brushes a year, of every conceivable type necessary to the painter or decorator, are produced in the brush factory.
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| − | Little of the material used in the brushes can be obtained in America. More than eighty per cent of the hog bristles used in the manufacture of Wooster brushes comes from Chines. The remainder comes mostly from Russia.
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| − | Purchasers make the trip from Wooster to the bristle centers of China and contract for large quantities of material. In addition the company maintains its own full time representative in China to supervise bristle purchases.
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