Tag: capital expansion

• The directors increase capital stock 200%

  All the minutes of the new Vegetable Growers Supply Co. were handwritten by J. B. Molitor himself. As I read these minutes more than 100 years removed from their original writing in 1918 and 1919, I have come to learn J. B.’s formulaic but in some places idiosyncratic use of language, including his very consistent…

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  January 25, 2022

  Chicago Greenhouse Growers

  1919, capital expansion, Chicago, Directors meeting, Lumber, Luxembourgers, Rogers Park, Vegetable Growers Supply Co.

• Securing lumber contracts and moving with urgency…

  With corporate governance for the Vegetable Growers Supply Co. tidied up just a couple weeks ago and a three-person executive committee in place (J. P. Smith, president, J. B. Molitor, secretary and Joseph Rengel, vice-president), J. P. Smith called a special meeting of the board of directors on February 5, 1919 at 8 P.M. at…

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  January 22, 2022

  Chicago Greenhouse Growers

  1919, capital expansion, Chicago, Directors meeting, Lumber, Luxembourgers, Rogers Park, Shareholder meeting, Vegetable Growers Supply Co.