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Mount Zircon bottling plant loading dock
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In the expectation that a spur line from the Maine Central Railroad might be extended to the new bottling plant, the loading dock area at its east end was left unfinished for a time. The massive brick chimney was connected to a steam-heating system…
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Mount Zircon Spring Water Co. bottle-shaped automobile
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The most ambitious advertising promotion put forth in the 1920s by the Mount Zircon Spring Water Company was an automobile in the shape of a quart container of Ginger Champagne. The vehicle was mainly used in the Boston area.
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Mount Zircon Ginger Champagne ad
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The 1926 advertisement from Sun-Up, Maine’s Own Magazine presented a fairly accurate rendition of Mount Zircon, complete with its new fire tower and bottling plant.
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Herbert Hall's "rotary beverage mixer"
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Manager of the bottling operations at Mount Zircon for many years, Herbert Hall was also something of an inventor. His “rotary beverage mixer,” shown here, was capable of handling between six and sixteen cases per minute. Hall received a patent for…
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First Mount Zircon bottling plant
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Herbert Hall
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Herbert Hall (on the left) remained with the Mount Zircon firm until around 1944, when a disagreement with the company’s owners over the cost of producing the famous Ginger Champagne (Hall refused to cheapen the recipe) brought about his departure.…
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Alphonse Dupuis
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Alphonse Dupuis purchased “Mount Zircon Spring, Inc.” in May of 1948 and remained at the company’s helm into the early 1970s. They syrup room’s stainless steel tanks held a mixture of sugar and concentrated flavorings, which was eventually combined…
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Interior of second Mount Zircon bottling plant
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The interior of the second Mount Zircon bottling plant as it appeared in 1975. Capping and shaking operations are taking place.
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Springhouse Products Co. Inc. advertising brochure
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