Spinning a Yarn: Codka Traditional Cache
rogheff: Not agood day for Rogheff caches. This one is gone. Strange how someone took a codka bottle, but left the rest of the garbage sitting all over the ground.
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I love my "Spinning a Yarn" series. Nothing is more fun on a campout than making up stories, one-upping each other if you will. Oh, you should hear our songs!
Sigfried Fleischmann, a wealthy Chicago coffee bean merchant arrived in the Town of Russell, Illinois in 1870.
He was a native of Owensboro, Kentucky and thus was party to the lucrative coffee bean trade between Owensboro and
neighboring Bardstown, Kentucky.
Fleischmann had a partner, Boris Smirnoff who, as everyone knows, also owned and operated the Smirnoff Vodka factory in Los Angeles, California. Smirnoff it seemed had this dream of combining the coffee and vodka business to create this wonderful new drink - Cofka. Well, Cofka was introduced in late 1868 in Atlanta, Georgia and quickly became a grand success. Smirnoff and Fleischmann were instant millionaires.
A problem was brewing in that it greatly disturbed Fleischmann that his beloved coffee was being used in such a manner. After all, he never partook in the spirits of the day. His coffee had been used for years to help cure the morning-after effects of alcoholic consumption after all.
In 1869, Fleischmann demanded the stop in production of Cofka, which in turn angered Smirnoff. Boris vowed to destroy Fleischmann's coffee business. So Smirnoff engaged the help of his trusted advisor, Fransisco Folger and drove Fleischmann out of the coffee trade.
Nearly penniless and now desperate, in 1870, Sigfried Fleischmann arrived in the Town of Russell and started the Fleischmann Royal Vodka Company on this very spot where it operates to this day. His coffee business destroyed, he was still able to pull his fortunes togather.
Today, Russell, Illinois' own Fleischmann Royal Vodka Company employes 32,000 workers and is the single largest employer of recovering alcoholics in the Eastern Wisconsin/Illinois stateline area.
This cache is a typical area standard pill bottle with stash note and pencil hidden in a fallen tree trunk - expect nothing special here.
Just a short walk from the employee parking garage, which of course you have permission to use. Tell the attendant at the gate that you're with the International Geocachical Exposition and that Vito Tunkelwell said you could park there.
COORDS UPDATE: FOLKS ARE TELLING ME THE COORDS ARE A BIT OFF, TRY THESE: N 42* 29.314' W 87* 55.495'
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