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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

1891: Mercer Rubber Company


Here's an unusual invoice from my personal collection of local mercantile paperwork. As any "local" from the Mercer County, N.J. area will attest, Mercer has been in the news lately with a controversial debate on whether or not the old rubber company dumped cancer causing toxic waste in the surrounding area during it's more than 100 years of operation in Hamilton Square.

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