In 1896, Halsey W. Taylor lost his father to an outbreak of typhoid fever caused by contaminated water. In 1912, he developed a sanitary drinking fountain he named "The Puritan," and began producing it in Warren, Ohio.
Brass Craft Manufacturing Co. received the Silver Award for outstanding safety and health achievement at its Brownstown plant from the Michigan Dept. of Consumer & Industry Services.
R.W. Beckett Corp., an oil burner manufacturer, named Craig Butler a sales engineer with a territory of eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware.