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Madawaska’s Northern Trading Co. Baby boomers all remember Jade East by Tom Kent
J
ack, as we all knew him, was the son of Austrian/Hungarian immigrants. He was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in the Union, New Jersey area. Jack was a master machinist, tool and die maker by trade, and dabbled in chemistry and fragrances as a hobby. He met and married a Maine native, Marie L. Sirois of Van Buren. Marie at the time was teaching and living with her brother in New Jersey. They had one son, John J. Vollmann Jr.. Jack, being an avid outdoorsman, was always looking forward to summer vacations when the family would return to Marie’s native Maine. Jack enjoyed his fishing and sometimes he’d also sneak a few days in the fall for hunting. Tired of the city rat race, in the mid-1950s, the
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Vollmanns returned to Marie’s St. John Valley where they began a fishing tackle business, developing a very good line of fresh water lures known as Cojacs. Jack was still fooling with his hobby and created a line of shampoo products called Acadian Queen as well as restroom deodorizer blocks. These he would peddle door to door, so to speak, from the back of his Studebaker station wagon. Then came the early 1960s, Rock and Roll, etc. College students had become a bit more affluent and were traveling to the islands on spring break. They were returning with a cologne called Canoe. Before this time men’s fragrance consisted of the Bay Rum and witch hazel the local barber applied when they got their hair cut, or of Old
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