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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 10, 1921 



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IVE ARE TELLING THE 

 PUBLIC: "BE SURE YOUR 

 WALNUT n ALL WALNUT" 



WE ARE TELLING THE 

 PUBLIC: "BE SURE YOUR 

 WALNUT IS ALL WALNUT" 



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■ The Cabinet-wood Superlative." 



RISING TIDE FOR AMERICAN IVAENUT 



The steadily rising tide of public interest and public faith in genuine 

 American Walnut furniture has developed to the point where buyers 

 are insisting that their WALNUT be ALL WALNUT. 



Furniture manufacturers will profit by this sales barometer and plan 

 their production of American Walnut furniture accordingly. 



It is a very practical assurance of quick moving stock and satisfied 

 customers. 



Our National campaign of advertising is featuring this slogan — 



-•BE SURE YOUR WALNUT IS ALL WALNUT" 



AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 



ROOM 1024 616 SOUTH MICHIGAN BOULEVARD CHICAGO 



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YOU WILL not 

 appreciate the 

 Mengel grade and 

 the Mengel serv- 

 ice until you have 

 tried "something 

 just as good." But 

 will you not tak^ 

 our Word for it? 



ME FIEMQIL LOMPMIY 



INCORPORATED 



Louisville. Ky. 



THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



Williamson-Kirk Company Starts Cutting 



The Williamson-Kirk Veneer Co., with offices and mills at 

 Texas, Md., has been incorporated under the laws of Maryland 

 and will manufacture the finest grades of w^alnut, oak, mahogany 

 and other hardwood veneers. At first the company w^ill only cut 

 walnut and at this time has a stock of the finest logs that Maryland 

 and the Virginias can produce. Operations began on September I. 



The company's new^ plant is equipped with new^ capital, ma- 

 chinery and is situated in a large manufacturing site that was a 

 munitions plant during the war and is ideally located for veneer 

 manufacture. In the design and layout of the machinery every 

 effort has been directed toward the simplification of the work and 

 the ease of handling the product from the log to the veneer. 



The officers and directors of this corporation are all trained 

 men, having had years of experience in their work. O. H. Wil- 

 liamson is the son of O. E. Williamson, the founder of the William- 

 son Veneer Company, who until his death in 1914 was the presi- 

 dent of that company. O. H. Williamson up to 1917 was the 

 superintendent of The Williamson Veneer Company and upon the 

 outbreak of the war with Germany he enlisted and served two years 

 as an aviator in France. Upon his release from the service he en- 

 gaged in the cutting of veneers in New York City and after six 

 months of that was employed as purchasing agent for the Talge 

 Mahogany Company, with which he worked until he became presi- 

 dent of the Williamson-Kirk Veneer Company. 



C. Nelson Kirk has been engaged in the walnut log business for 

 the past ten years and has acquired during that time the reputation 

 of being the best in his line in this country. 



Another active official of the corporation, M. D. Williamson, is 

 also a son of O. E. Williamson, has been the head buyer for the 

 Williamson \'eneer Company, Baltimore, for the last six years and 

 is of course thoroughly familiar with the veneer business. 



