According to a 1924 newspaper article on the business, “For thirty-five years Fred L. Lake & Co., manufacturers of rubber stamps, badges, buttons, stencils and seals, have been supplying these essentials to commercial and industrial establishments of Dallas. The plant at 1015 Elm street is thoroughly equipped to manufacture all the products named above. There are ten to fifteen employees in the plant and prompt service is one of the principles on which the enterprise is operated.” “Rubber stamps for the banks and larger business houses constitute the chief product of the company, though the other products are in continuous demand. There is hardly a business house in Dallas that has not used the rubber stamps made by the Lake company.” “Mr. Lake had a hard struggle in his early days, but by the hustle and attention to business he has kept pace with the growth of Dallas, which he has seen grow from a small village to a prosperous and magnificent city. From the small office on Commerce street to an entire building in the center of the shopping district on Elm street shows that it is such men as Mr. Lake who have made possible the prosperity and growth of Dallas.”

Fred L. Lake passed away in Dallas at age 65 in 1934.