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Long-standing Winnipeg hotel reconnects with 'piece of history' after nearly 120 years
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Antique mechanical cash register built in 1907 returns to Northern Hotel
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A long-standing Winnipeg hotel has reconnected with a piece of its history, after an Alberta-based antiques dealer stumbled upon a cash register made for the business more than a century ago.
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The register, built by National Cash Register Company in 1907, is engraved with the name of the Northern Hotel and was once a critical part of the Main Street establishment's daily operations.
"It's kind of neat.
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It's all mechanical — and the fact that it still works, a lot of it is just a testament to the craftsmanship that they did 120 years ago," said hotel owner Keith Horn.
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Horn purchased the register in late July from Franz Giesen, co-owner of Frantic4tiques — an online business based in Mannville, Alta., east of Edmonton.
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Giesen said he spotted the cash register for sale on Facebook Marketplace and made the nearly 1,200-kilometre drive from Mannville to Winnipeg to collect it.
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"I thought on the way in, I'm like, how cool would it be if I was able to reconnect this cash register with the owner of the Northern Hotel?
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So then, when I got to the city, I made the phone call," Giesen said.
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Horn said he was initially skeptical about buying the antique, but came around to the idea after learning more about it.
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Giesen used a serial number stamped on the register to determine when it was built.
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He believes the machine, which is covered in embellishments, was cast in metal.
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It weighs more than nine kilograms and still makes a satisfying ring when punching in the numbers, which range in value from five cents to $10.
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"Just wondering what, back in 1907, was $10, when rooms back then [only cost] up to $2," Horn said, smiling.
"I guess they were very hopeful.
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This particular model included specialty buttons that allowed the hotel to track how many meals or cigars it sold, and was capable of keeping a running total of the day's earnings.
While the exact history of the cash register is murky, but it's nearly as old as the hotel itself, which was built in 1906.
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Giesen learned the register wound up in the care of a former radio repair shop a short distance from the Northern Hotel sometime in the 1950s.
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It was then inherited by the daughter of the radio shop owner, who kept it in her basement until he bought it from her, said Giesen.
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Things were made to last, nothing was made to be tossed away.
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There is a reason why these things still exist," he said.
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Horn said he plans to clean the register, and then put it on display inside the Northern Hotel.
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