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  Progressive M & M.JPG - PROGRESSIVE M & M CO - Tin lamp, double spout, marked in shield with star PROGRESSIVE M & M Co, PANA, ILL. 2 1/4 in. high to lid, 1 7/8 in. base dia., ex-Henry Pohs collection [The Progressive Mercantile and Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1898 in Pana, IL by Edmund M. Hybarger. Located at 12 S. Poplar St. in Pana, the company produced a number of metal and wood specialty products. The variety of products include metal beds, carriage heaters and soda fountains to name a few. The 1913 Illinois Sec. of State List of Corporations includes the Progressive Mercantile and Manufacturing Co. with the main office in Pana at Main and Vine Streets. Edmund M. Hybarger is listed as president/manager and H. G. Hybarger as secretary. The 17th Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of Illinois for 1909 lists the company as employing 50 people. Several publications including the 1911 Era Druggist’s Directory and the Dec. 1913 Southern Pharmaceutical Journal advertised the company’s soda fountains. Apparently that didn’t go well and a time-line history by the local newspaper shows the company closing its business in 1915. The founder and manager, Edmund M. Hybarger, was born in Indiana in 1875 and moved to Pana with his parents. Married to Grace Beach in 1900, he was a member of the Pana School Board and was quite active in the Pana community. After the closing of the company, he became manager of the Carbon Manufacturing Company in Pana before leaving Pana to settle in Seattle, WA where the 1920 Census lists him as a salesman of retail building materials. Whether the oil wick lamp with the Progressive M & M stamping was a private label from another manufacturer or made by Progressive is unknown. The company certainly had the facilities to make the lamp. Pana is located in central Illinois in coal mining country. The town was the site of a contentious labor battle known as the 1898 Pana Coal Strike. It’s interesting to note that the company founding was the same year as the union labor problems.]  
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Progressive M & M | PROGRESSIVE M & M CO - Tin lamp, double spout, marked in shield with star PROGRESSIVE M & M Co, PANA, ILL. 2 1/4 in. high to lid, 1 7/8 in. base dia., ex-Henry Pohs collection [The Progressive Mercantile and Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1898 in Pana, IL by Edmund M. Hybarger. Located at 12 S. Poplar St. in Pana, the company produced a number of metal and wood specialty products. The variety of products include metal beds, carriage heaters and soda fountains to name a few. The 1913 Illinois Sec. of State List of Corporations includes the Progressive Mercantile and Manufacturing Co. with the main office in Pana at Main and Vine Streets. Edmund M. Hybarger is listed as president/manager and H. G. Hybarger as secretary. The 17th Annual Report of the Factory Inspector of Illinois for 1909 lists the company as employing 50 people. Several publications including the 1911 Era Druggist’s Directory and the Dec. 1913 Southern Pharmaceutical Journal advertised the company’s soda fountains. Apparently that didn’t go well and a time-line history by the local newspaper shows the company closing its business in 1915. The founder and manager, Edmund M. Hybarger, was born in Indiana in 1875 and moved to Pana with his parents. Married to Grace Beach in 1900, he was a member of the Pana School Board and was quite active in the Pana community. After the closing of the company, he became manager of the Carbon Manufacturing Company in Pana before leaving Pana to settle in Seattle, WA where the 1920 Census lists him as a salesman of retail building materials. Whether the oil wick lamp with the Progressive M & M stamping was a private label from another manufacturer or made by Progressive is unknown. The company certainly had the facilities to make the lamp. Pana is located in central Illinois in coal mining country. The town was the site of a contentious labor battle known as the 1898 Pana Coal Strike. It’s interesting to note that the company founding was the same year as the union labor problems.] Download Original Image
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