Crescent Foods

Crescent's earliest incarnation was a spice business operated in a Seattle store.

Six years after its creation came the Great Seattle fire, and then the economic depression of 1893 which the company struggled through.

[2] Crescent had introduced Mapleine at the Puyallup Fair in 1908,[1] and exhibited it prominently at the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific (AYP) Exposition.

"[3] An early enforcement action of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act in 1909 concerned a shipment of Mapleine confiscated in Chicago.

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