Renz
Company Names, addresses, dates:
  Renz, Washington DC
Notes:
The 1900 Census listed Henry Augustus Renz (b. 1873) as working for a soda water
Bottler in Charlotte, NC.
In the 1910 Census, he was listed as the manager of a Bottling Works in
Petersburg, VA.1
His 1917 WWI draft card listed him as the Proprietor of the Coca Cola
Bottling Works at 615 D Street SW, Washington DC. His son Henry A. Renz Jr was also listed
as working at the Coca Cola bottling works according to his own WWI draft card.
This web site says that
the Coca Cola company sued the
Chero Cola company
over trade mark infringements.
A December 22, 1922 article in the Washington Post said that the Coca Cola company
put an injunction on
Chero Cola
, "a soft drink manufactured by Henry Renz at 900
Eighth Street SW". So it seems that Renz got caught up in that litigation.
This last tidbit has nothing to do with bottles, but I found it interesting. According to an
article in the Mar 30, 1921 Washington Post, Renz's son Henry A. Renz Jr had lost his
ability to speak above a whisper for 6 months; but he regained his ability to speak simply
by going up on an airplane to an altitude of 14,000 feet for an hour.
Bottles:
book # 581 This is a 7.5" clear crown top bottle with a hexagon pattern, embossed: front: RENZ / BEVERAGES / MIN. CONT. 6 FL. OZS. base: WASHINGTON |