Wolverine Sign Works

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Wolverine Sign Works was founded by Ralph Vosburg and J. Gratz Cook in 1916. Family history relates that the two traveling salesmen were both staying at a hotel in Sandusky, Michigan that year. Apparently, they struck up a conversation and discovered that both of them lived in Owosso. Mr. Vosburg was selling signs: baked enamel advertising signs made in a factory out east and shipped to his customers, who were then supposed to erect the signs in a local farmer's field along the roadside to advertise their business. He remarked to Mr. Cook that when he came back in a year or two to call on his past customers, he often found them dissatisfied. Many had never gotten any further than uncrating the signs in the back room, where they still remained. Those signs that had been erected were often obscured by brush, or lay on the ground where the weather or cows had knocked them down.

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