The American Can Company is the largest and most complete plant for the manufacture of cans in Ohio; floor space is 155,266 square feet.  This company manufactures packers' lard cans and pails, butchers' lard cans and pails, candy, baking powder, and cracker cans, grease cans and pails, all styles and sizes slip cover cans and pails, cofee, tea, and spice cans and pails, talcum and tooth powder boxes, shoe-polish and ointment boxes, and syrup cans.

The American Can Co. was one of the heaviest losers in this section of the flood district.  Its plant on North Third Street stood right in the path of the rushing waters and while the lives of hundreds of people who took refuge in the building were saved, the company itself was a heavy property loss.

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