Birthday

June 11, 1977, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern

Some of the dates in this article make no sense, but until I realized that, I thought it was a nice timeline depicting the history of the organization.  If it was founded in 1852, wouldn't its 127th birthday be in 1979?  This article is dated 1977 so that makes it seem like the company was founded in 1850 but then the timeline in the article says its 127th birthday was in 1974, so that equates to an 1847 start.  Maybe the writer was calculating from the origins of the pail factory that was in business before Mr. Smith purchased it in 1852.  Still confusing.  Other than that, the other dates make sense from what I understand from history.  Maybe the writer was having a bad math day.