The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-04-04
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WHAT THIRTY CENTS CAN DO.

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WHAT THIRTY CENTS CAN DO.
The early life of Mr. Achor was like the
life Of many youths that had to struggle to
success against the different vicissitudes Of
fortune. His parents we're thrifty Quakers
and Of sterling honesty. The father, a
farmer, and being Injured to work himself
allowed no idleness about him in others;
and after the boy passed into his teens he
had, like the rest to share and share alike
in the general labor Of the farm which his
father owned The farm was small and
everything made was doubly earned. The
country school, when farm labor permitted,
gave the boy his letters; and the long walks
TO and from digested both food and intelli
gence. At nineteen he was sufficiently
advanced to enter the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity. There he pushed his studies with
so much vigor that he passed class after
class and soon entered the senior; but hav-
ing caught the war fever while the civil
strife was at it's height and the theatre of
carnage almost at his door, he espoused the
Union cause and Joined the 191st Ohio Vol
unteers, and did good and valuable service
in the Shenandoah Valley. After the war
he returned home, but in time became rest
less; and like in such cases the eyes in
imagination swept the horizon, and at last
rested on New York.
In 1876 Mr.. AehOr became a resident Of
the great metropolis, and there, like with
thousands of others, the actual struggle for
life commenced
Business reverses and successes followed
each other in quick succession. At times
an inventor, but poverty forced him to
relinquish his rights for pittance.. The
world and school education in due season
assimilated, and a chance thought turned
his attention to candy making, when capi-
tai in hand amounted, all told, to thirty
cents. The school and farm knowledge of
maple sugar, tin stew pan, CRATE FIRE,
and in lieu of a marble top table a marble
shelf or mantel over the CRATE and hearth
which his Giving room fortunately pos
sessed, and thirty cents in cash, completed
the entire outfit for manufacturing candies.
The marble mantel, cleaned and secured
answered for a table, and the tin stew pan
CRATE fire and thirty cents Of maple sugar
produced 'presto like the Original maple
candies
The candies made, "now, how to sell
them, he thought, and the answer came
"peddle them" So along Wall and ad-
joining streets the candy man was seen
daily on his rounds, seeking in hooks and
corners the men of risk and brains. Like
hot cakes the Original naples went. "
Other kinds followed, and still others were
tried, and experiments continued, and
candy making kept pace with the demand
Delicious chocolates, bon bons, caramels
iellies, nougats etc., etc., followed eael
other in quick succession. The brain wa
focussed to the work, and candy making
: became fine art and the maker a master
artist.
Mr.. Achor was the first to wrap carameli
in waXed paper, which revolutionized tina
branch of the business, and instead Of
few pounds, as sold in the old sticky state
the sales now run into the millions, and are
sold not only in this country but alst
throughout Europe.
'Maple cream" was another of his inven
tions and one that greatly increased hi
reputation, and his large sales at Brighton
Beach and other popular resorts almos
made his reputation national
Several years ago Mr. Achor opened a
E 145 Court street, but his quarters wer
found to small, and he soon removed to 10
Court street, under Rivers Academy. Her
he invented his new" pure delicious ic
cream, original fruit cream, and his delic
S ious and original summer drinks.
Business increasing another move wa
necessary, and now he is firmly lodged q
his present headquarters, 439 Fulton street
r between Jay aud Pearl streets, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Achor's candies were popular at tn
start, and his popularity has increased t
such an extent that additional help had t
be secured to assist in the work. He a
tributes his success to the fact that hi
candies are absolutely pure" made
'clean vessels, and of the 'purest goods.
His candies are pronounced the equal,
not superior, to the finest French confe
tions of Broadway, Every piece is mao
Is on the premises and that by himself, h
# assistants simply helping, but in no sens
IS manufacturing, that he delegates to himse
It only.
a Energy, push, geniality, honesty an
!, education are all indications of his cbara
ter and solid worth.
- First-class candies are worth fair pric
# and parents should study well betwet
(. economy and expensive doctors, and b
al tween the absolutely pure" and the "con
g mon, unhealthy mixtures" called ''cheRI
s. candy, often bought in ignorance for Il
i precious little ones
I, In Mr.. Achor we find the country bo
y Western nerve, New York pluck, no none
,e a stranger; by accident candy merchau
successful, owner of a store on FultC
o street, and a reputation as the best cand
d maker in Brooklyn.
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