DUG OMEGA CHEMICAL AND CUDAHY PACKING

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Dug these two out of a farmers field dump today.

Think they would be 1940's - 1950's.

White one looks just like a "Pounds Jar".
On bottom "THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY/USA"


Cudahy Packing Co.
The Irish-born Cudahy brothers started working in the Milwaukee meat business in the early 1860s; there they met Philip Armour, whom they followed to Chicago during the 1870s. In the years that followed, the Cudahys operated small packing plants in Chicago. In 1887, with Armour's backing, Michael Cudahy and his brothers started an Armour-Cudahy packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. The Cudahy Packing Co. was created in 1890, when Michael bought Armour's interest. Over the next 30 years, the company added branches across the country, including a cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters were transferred from Omaha to Chicago. By the mid-1920s, Cudahy was one of the nation's leading food companies, with over $200 million in annual sales and 13,000 employees around the country. Although it was hard hit by the Great Depression, the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s. Following World War II, the company moved its headquarters first to Omaha and, in 1965, to Phoenix, where it took the name Cudahy Co. During the 1970s, after it was purchased by General Host, Cudahy was dismantled.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohisto...ages/2635.html



Second one is 5 1/2 inches tall, 1 inch dia.
On side says "OMEGA OIL/ IT'S GREEN/TRADE MARK/
THE OMEGA CHEMICAL CO/JERSEY CITY"

OMEGA OIL
Omega Oil, billed as a liniment "For What Ails You" including "Corset Pain", was introduced in the 1890's by the Omega Chemical Company founded by Michael Winburn (Jan.1, 1861 - Nov. 13, 1930).
Located in 1900 at 41 Park Row, New York City, the firm moved first to 257 B'way, then (in 1902) to 452 Fifth Ave. with a factory at 243 Greenwich St.
In 1908 they re-located the offices to 576 Fifth Ave., where Winburn headed an advertising agency.
About this time also Michael Winburn founded the Cadum Soap and Products Company of Paris and became active in philanthropic causes in France (there is still a rue Michael Winburn in Courbevoie, France).
In 1920 the officers of Omega Chemical were Michael Winburn, pres.; Charles H. DeFreest, vice-pres.; Clara E. Jeroleman, sec.; Henry D. Bloom, treas.
Winburn died in 1930 (Click here for image of grave site), and within a few years Omega Chemical moved its operations to the Sunset Park Industrial Area of Brooklyn: 220 36th Street (1934) and 882 3rd Ave. (1938).
The firm subsequently moved to Jersey City, New Jersey: 190 Baldwin Ave. (1940) and 257 Cornelian Ave. (1954).
In the 1960's Omega Chemical was taken over by Block Drug Co. of Jersey City, who continued to market Omega Oil until around 1983(?).
Click here for photo of Omega Oil bottle from the Block Drug era. The ingredients of the time are listed as: Methyl Salicylate, Chloroform 12% (39 minims per fluid ounce), Oleoresin of Capsicum, Histamine Dihydrochloride and Methyl Nicotinate, Isopropyl Alcohol 48% by volume.
Many thanks to Kim Maricic (whose grandmother used Omega Oil) for photo of bottle and list of ingredients!
http://www.waltergrutchfield.net/omega.htm

[Gypsy Heart]

That Corset Pain Bottle is just pricelesss.....great find Sherm.....Love the hisory of the finds ...Thank You

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Gypsy,

that's the fun of looking and digging for bottles.

Some could be worth money, but I have never sold
one, gave a few away.

It's trying to find out what the bottle was used for and
who made it, that's the good part after the hunt.

have a good un..........

[civilman1]

Nice find's Sherm.....gonna check out the other one's...Nice job