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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



December 10, 1920 



"The Cabinet Wood Superlative" 



No ^^ Jimmies" Needed 



In TFalnut furniture no matter how old or how new, the drawers shde smoothly and the doors open 

 and close without jamming. If the workmanship is good, give the cabinet-maker the credit. He in turn 

 gives IValnut most of the credit — because often he has done just as careful work in other woods and 

 then has been blamed, perhaps, because the moving parts "stuck." So he likes Walniii. ("It gives his 

 skill arealchanst.") 



The supreme beauty of Walnut, in addition to the above qualities (and plus its "workability" and its 

 "carvability"), accounts for the world-old supremacy of Walnut as a cabinet-wood — and its price per- 

 mits its use in every grade of furniture that the careful buyer is likely to ever consider. 



It will help you in your furniture buying to hiow all about American Walnut. (The furniture man will 

 respect your discrimination. He knows the facts — and is glad you do.) 



Don't fail to WRITE NOW for the WALNUT BOOK— edition de luxe— which will come 

 by return mail with our compliments — and our confidence in your appreciation of its value. 



AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 



Room 1024, 616 South Michigan Boulevard, Chicago 



ALL BRANCHES OF THE FURNITURE TRADE 



are feeling strongly the Effects of the series of tributes to our American Walnut which are running con- 

 tinuously in most of the Best Publications in America. Above is an example. 



THERE ARE STILL A FEW FURNITURE HOUSES IN THE COUNTRY 



who are giving their better-posted competitors a great advantage over them with the Best Trade. WHY ? Simply because 

 they "heard somebody say" that American Walnut was getting scarce. Let them ask us /or THE FACTS! (See address above.) 



St. Louis Furniture Makers Plan to Revive Trade 



St. Louis furniture manufacturers who are the heaviest 

 consumers of hardwood lumber in the city, and who for 

 weeks have bought but sparingly, are expected to get into 

 the market more heavily after Jan. 1 , if not before, due to 

 a plan with which most of them will endeavor to overcome 

 stagnation in their trade. Practically all of the St. Louis 

 makers of furniture will put out an entirely new line of 

 furniture by the opening of 1921. 



The fun;iture makers have almost stopped buying 

 lumber, because in turn retail merchants have almost 

 stopped buying furniture, due to the prevalent expecta- 

 tion that prices will drop. The manufacturers made large 

 quantities of high priced furniture out of high grade lum- 

 ber, with which the retailers stocked up, and now the 

 retailers are holding their buying to a minimum and sell- 

 ing what they have as best they can. 



This has reduced most of the St. Louis factories from 

 their normal output to little better than half-time opera- 

 tion, and as a natural result has slowed up their purchases 

 of hardwood lumber. 



During the wartime period and as long as prices re- 

 mained at their crest, furniture factories did not evolve 

 any new styles in furniture, for the reason that they could 

 not keep up with their orders for the old ones. Now that 

 condition has changed, and practically every one of the 

 leading factories here will put out an entirely new line 

 Jan. I, at readjusted prices, which an authority in the in- 



dustry has predicted will show a decrease of 1 to 15 per 

 cent under those which have prevailed for some time. 



With the issuance of these new lines the makers hope 

 to revitalize their industry w^hich has been approaching a 

 state of stagnation. 



Mrs. George Lucas, wife of George Lucas, one of the 

 officers of the Orinoco Furniture Company, of Columbus, 

 Ind., was killed; Mr. Lucas and J. M. Hamilton, president 

 of the Blanchard-Hamilton Furniture Manufacturing 

 Company at Shelbyville, Ind., were injured and Mrs. 

 Hamilton and a chauffeur narrowly escaped serious injury 

 recently when an automobile in which they were riding 

 was struck by another machine and overturned. The 

 party had been to Lafayette, Ind., to attend a football 

 game and had started home in the Hamilton limousine 

 when the accident occurred. 



The New Albany (Ind.) Veneer Company, recently 

 received judgment for $16,000 against the Talge Ma- 

 hogany Company, of Indianapolis after a week's trial 

 in circuit court. The New Albany company had 

 brought suit for $25,000 alleging that the Talge com- 

 pany was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $18,873 

 under the provisions of a sub contract by which the New 

 Albany company constructed pljrwood parts for airplanes 

 for the Talge company, which had a contract to provide 

 the material to the signal corps of the United States Army 

 during the war. 



