The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . HENRY D. PERKY. The Worcester of 1898. 521 certain foods as perfect or natural (ines, and that mans attempt to improveupon these inevitably results in an unnatural, disorganized food, and thatthe eating of such results in unnatural and inharmonious bodies. In addition to the shredding-machine, Mr. Perky was the inventor ofnumerous machines and appliances used in the Jackson street plant, whichproduce, besides the shredded whole-wheat biscuit, wheat-shred drink, awholesome and nourishing substitute for the injurious beverage
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . HENRY D. PERKY. The Worcester of 1898. 521 certain foods as perfect or natural (ines, and that mans attempt to improveupon these inevitably results in an unnatural, disorganized food, and thatthe eating of such results in unnatural and inharmonious bodies. In addition to the shredding-machine, Mr. Perky was the inventor ofnumerous machines and appliances used in the Jackson street plant, whichproduce, besides the shredded whole-wheat biscuit, wheat-shred drink, awholesome and nourishing substitute for the injurious beverages which arein common use; granulated wheat-shred, a convenient article for disheswhich require crumbing; and wheat-shred baby food, which he believeswill work a revolution in the existing methods of child-feeding. He holdsthat much of the baby foods now on the market are of the same nature aspies, cakes and doughnuts, conditions which explain the presence in grown-up children of rickety bones, poor teeth, weak nerve and brain power, andotherwise defective FACTORY OF GRATON & KNIGHT MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company. — The manufacture of leatherbelting in Worcester had its origin in the card-clothing factory of the T. Manufacturing Company, which establishment claims to have beenstarted in 1786 by Pliny Earle of Leicester, Massachusetts. It is said thatMr. Earle first used calfskins in his works, but in time adopted cowhide,which was especially tanned for the purpose. Two lads not yet out of theirteens, Henry C. Graton and Joseph A. Knight by name, both coming fromLeicester, were engaged by the T. K. Earle Company to work in theirfactory, where they remained for ten years in the making and putting onof belts. In 1861 these gentlemen formed the partnership of Graton &Knight, and purchased the good-will and stock of the belting departmentof the T. K. Earle Manufacturing Company, which they located at 137Front street. These early days w
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