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September 13, 1890
The Wichita Daily Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
What is this article about?
Mrs. Mary Bleffert, a former box factory worker, built a successful cigar box business on Attorney Street, New York, producing 1,000 boxes daily and managing 20 employees with her husband as assistant, after five years of leadership.
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Makes Cigar Boxes.
What do you think of a woman who can run a factory and turn out 1,000 cigar boxes a day? Think she is a myth?
Well, she is not, but a tall, fair and forty specimen of womanhood who can balance 200 pounds and manage a force of twenty people. Her name is Mrs. Mary Bleffert, her factory is on Attorney street, and her husband is the head assistant of her establishment.
Not very many years ago this majestic merchant was employed in a box factory with hundreds of other little women.
She was quick witted, ambitious and restless. A young fellow named Bleffert had charge of her division. He admired her skill, love followed admiration and marriage love. There was no wedding tour, no kalsomined pastry, no satin ribbons and no foolish expenditures. There was a honeymoon, though, and it has not waned, either. There was a toy savings bank, then a bank account, a lot of dreaming and planning and then the Bleffert box factory. It is right that the strong should lead, and that's what Mary Bleffert has been doing for the last five years, and that's why she is mistress of a prosperous business.-New York World.
What do you think of a woman who can run a factory and turn out 1,000 cigar boxes a day? Think she is a myth?
Well, she is not, but a tall, fair and forty specimen of womanhood who can balance 200 pounds and manage a force of twenty people. Her name is Mrs. Mary Bleffert, her factory is on Attorney street, and her husband is the head assistant of her establishment.
Not very many years ago this majestic merchant was employed in a box factory with hundreds of other little women.
She was quick witted, ambitious and restless. A young fellow named Bleffert had charge of her division. He admired her skill, love followed admiration and marriage love. There was no wedding tour, no kalsomined pastry, no satin ribbons and no foolish expenditures. There was a honeymoon, though, and it has not waned, either. There was a toy savings bank, then a bank account, a lot of dreaming and planning and then the Bleffert box factory. It is right that the strong should lead, and that's what Mary Bleffert has been doing for the last five years, and that's why she is mistress of a prosperous business.-New York World.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Personal Triumph
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Woman Entrepreneur
Cigar Box Factory
Business Success
Rise From Worker To Owner
What entities or persons were involved?
Mrs. Mary Bleffert
Blef Fert (Husband)
Where did it happen?
Attorney Street, New York
Story Details
Key Persons
Mrs. Mary Bleffert
Blef Fert (Husband)
Location
Attorney Street, New York
Event Date
Last Five Years
Story Details
Mrs. Mary Bleffert, formerly a factory worker, married her supervisor and started her own cigar box factory, now producing 1,000 boxes a day while managing 20 employees, with her husband as assistant.