Travel Bug Dog Tag Life Savers Candy T.B.

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Owner:
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Released:
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Origin:
Mississippi, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Current Goal

To travel to as many caches as possible and sweeten the game.

About This Item

The idea of Life Saver Candy was formed and marketed by Clarence Crane who had been a chocolate maker.  Chocolates were hard to sell in the summer and he decided to try to make a mint that would boost his summertime sales.  He first marketed "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers" in 1912.  Life Savers were made by Kraft Foods and then purchased by the Wrigley Company.

In 1912 when candy maker Clarence Crane first marketed "Crane's Peppermint Life Savers", life preservers were just beginning to be used on ships.  They were round with a hole in the center for tossing to a passenger fallen overboard, but that is not the whole story.  Crane was buying bottles of flavoring in a drug store one day when he noticed the druggist using a pill-making machine.  It was operated by hand and made round, flat pills.  Crane had his idea.  The pill making machines worked fine for his mints and he was even able to add the life preserver touch by punching a tiny hole in the middle.

 In 1913 Crane sold the rights to his Life Savers candy to Edward Nole for only $2,900.  Noble then sold Life Savers in many flavors, including the original peppermint.  Clarence Crane may have regretted that decision to sell, for "Life Savers" earned the new manufacturer many millions of dollars.

This TB has been missing for over a year so I am giving it a new life.  It has been replaced with a wooden tag with the same tracking number and a photo tag of the original TB to enable it to travel again.

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Tracking History (1393.6mi) View Map

Mark Missing 8/28/2019 Chicago5 marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.
Write note 7/3/2019 rminninger posted a note for it   Visit Log

Missing from AGT-McKean-Kinzua Bridge cache
Write note 10/12/2018 emtfire10 posted a note for it   Visit Log

missing
Dropped Off 10/6/2018 Davvvy placed it in AGT-McKean-Kinzua Bridge Pennsylvania - 59.38 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/31/2018 Davvvy retrieved it from Up On Top New York   Visit Log

And now grabbed this back! Sorry we kept it for a couple months before sorting this out, glad its not MIA anymore! We will find a good home for it!
Dropped Off 3/31/2018 Davvvy placed it in Up On Top New York - 116.6 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 3/31/2018 Davvvy grabbed it   Visit Log

Hello! I found this tag in a cache in a state forest in New York. The current "holder" wasn't listed as a finder of that particular cache, so I will be grabbing it, dropping in that cache to get its miles, then grabbing back.
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/23/2016 NikGabeLucian retrieved it from Cazenovia Creek Nature Sanctuary New York   Visit Log

Will drop soon
Dropped Off 6/23/2016 Matt_Burke placed it in Cazenovia Creek Nature Sanctuary New York - 116.84 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Cazenovia Creek Nature Sanctuary (GC3M226)
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 6/17/2016 Matt_Burke grabbed it   Visit Log

In a cache at Knox but wasn't logged. I'll find it a nice home :)

  • Found it in "New Knox Trail" cache :)
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