Rockefeller Buys Sandwich Machine

 Fun Fact from the Sandwich Newspaper in September, 1916.





Rockefeller Buys Sandwich Press


John D Rockefeller is using Sandwich made machinery on his large estate in New York. He also recently purchased a Sandwich hay press (baler) for shipment to his estate at Pocantico Hills, New York.

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I recently contacted the curator at the estate, and I got a reply a few weeks later, Unfortunately they currently have no Sandwich machines on display at the estate. There are numerous barns and if they discover anything related, they will get back to me.


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