"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:03:41 -0800, sf > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:51:12 -0700, Janet Bostwick
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:51:12 -0600, Tara >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/l...l-of-fare.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ice-water—not prepared in the ineffectual goblet, but in the
>>>>> sincere and capable refrigerator.
>>>> refrigerator?
>>> AKA: ice box?
>> if the article was written then, the vernacular would be ice box.
>> Don't know for sure, but I don't think the word refrigerator was
>> around in the 1880s.
>> Janet US
>
>
> White Mountain made a refrigerator (called that, and looking like what we
> generally call "ice boxes") in the late 1800s. Unfortunately, the trade
> card that I saw was undated.
>
> From the trade card:
>
> White Mountain Refrigerators
> Maine Manufacturing Co. [actually in Nashua, NH]
> "The chest with the chill in it."
> Largest refrigerator factory in the world.
>
> I saved this information because I did a double-take when I saw that word.
> I usually associate the name "White Mountain" with ice cream makers.
> Hmmm. Looking in my trade card files a bit more, I see another mechanical
> trade card that uses both terms: ice box and refrigerator.

I know that name as a brand of shoes.