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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 10, 1922 



PERKINS 



183 



Trade Mark 

 Reo. U. S. Pat. Oft. 



PERKINS 



183 



Trade Mark 

 Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. 



GENERAL OFFICES AND FACTORY 



Users of 



Perkins Vegetable Glue 



ARE FULLY AND PERMANENTLY PROTECTED 



Patents covering Perkins Glue have been held valid and infringed by the United States 

 Circuit Court of Appeals. Patents have also been granted in Canada, Great Britain, Ger- 

 many, France, Belgium, Italy and other foreign countries. 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Factory and General Offices: LANSDALE. PA. Sales Office; SOUTH BEND, IND. 



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eneer 



and Panel Outlook Fine for Autumn, 

 Depending Upon Settlement of 



Shopmen's Strike J 



Reports on market conditions made by Chicago veneer and ply- 

 wood manufacturers and distributors differ as to the degree of 

 interference the coal and shopmen's strikes have had with business 

 in their lines during the last thirty days. All of them, however, 

 have experienced some curtailment in buying, a lack of confidence 

 among the buyers and a tendency to order relatively small quan- 

 tities until such time as the situation clarifies and the future can 



Hoffman Brothers Company 



ESTABLISHED 1867 



INCORPORATED 1904 



VENEERS 

 HARDWOOD LUMBER 



800 W. Main St., FORT WAYNE, IND. 



1>Ujnts: Fort Wayne, Ind. Kendallville, Ind. Burnside, Ky. 



be judged with greater certainty. But while the business of all 

 has fallen short of expectations for August and early September 

 it has been in every instance far better than for the same period 

 last year. In fact, buying has evidenced a remarkable vitality in 

 the face of the discouraging strike situation. In spite of lessened 

 confidence, transportation congestion and car shortage, substan- 

 tial quantities of veneers and panels have been and are moving. 

 Prices are firm and tending to advance. Mill stocks are nowhere 

 in large surplus and some items, particularly the high class 

 figured woods, are scarce. 



In the face of this curtailed business, predictions for fall busi- 

 ness are w^ithout exception, optimistic. The veneer and panel 

 men point out that the coal strikes have been settled and declare 

 that if the shopmen's strike is ended within a reasonable time 

 business is certain to be fine throughout the fall and until the 

 first of the year at least. The predictions of fall business run from 

 "good" to "wonderful," conditioned upon settlement of the shop- 

 men's strike. Furniture factories are said to be busy, especially 

 in the case goods and table lines, interior trim manufacturers 

 are still active and likely to remain so, phonograph business is 

 picking up, the radio demand is increasing all lines of con- 

 sumption promise to remain in the market, if the shopmen will just 

 go back to work and restore confidence and peace to the country 3 

 industry and commerce. 



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