Labels:text | menu OCR: Their inventor, Charles Stilwell, gave them the name S.O.S. - Self Opening Sacks. But a brown paper bag by any other name is still a brown paper bag. In the summer of 1883 Stilwell created the first machine to produce paper bags. Paper bags existed before this machine, but they were V-shaped and made by hand. Stilwell's bags became popular because they had flat bottoms and could stand on their own, making them the perfect container for filling with groceries at the market. In the TM PING All isolated objects in PATHS 1930s, the development of the supermarket created the Object Series have a bigger demand for Stilwell's sacks. Today, American a custom path embed- supermarkets alone purchase 25 billion bags a year. ded into the high resolution JPEG compressed TIFF file. PhotoDisc, Inc. Photo ...
