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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1913. 



CALENSABS, CARDS AND BOOKS BEOEIVED. 



The handsome calendar is a souvenir of which the trade never 

 tires — as a calendar of some sort is obviously a necessity, and 

 quite as obviously, a handsome calendar is preferable to one that 

 cannot be so described. A number of desirable calendars have 

 been received at this office. 



The Lebanon Mill Co., Pawtucket, Rhode Island, which manu- 

 factures knitted fabrics, has favored its customers with a very 

 dainty calendar, the full size of which is about 9 x 20 inches. 

 It consists of a reproduction in water color effects of a handsome 

 young woman set off with a sizeable corsage bouquet of violets 

 and pansies. A unique feature of this calendar is its multiplied 

 mounting — the picture being mounted on a drab board, which 

 in turn is mounted on grey, and that again mounted on a piece 

 of drab — the whole being tied at the top with a pearl grey ribbon. 

 Its delicacy would suggest that as a rule this calendar would be 

 carried home rather than being left in the office. 



The Derby Rubber Co., Derby, Connecticut, engaged in the 

 manufacture of reclaimed rubber, has a calendar somewhat simi- 

 lar in its general appearance to the one described above, but dif- 

 ferent in its dimensions. This is about 14 inches square. It has 

 a water-color face on a panel at one side, and is tied with a silk 

 cord at the top. This panel also has a double mounting — first 

 on a heavy cream cardboard, and that in turn upon a board of 

 green. This calendar, like the one mentioned above, is suited for 

 home consumption. 



The Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson, Massachusetts, has supplied 

 its customers with one of those exceedingly convenient desk 

 memorandum calendars with a week on each page and enough 

 space opposite each day to make any important memoranda that 

 it may be necessary to make. The calendar is 5^/i by 8J4 inches 

 in size and has a cover and a mount of mottled green printed 

 in gold, which gives it a rich and artistic effect. 



The New Jersey Rubber Co., Lambertville, New Jersey, manu- 

 facturing reclaimed rubber, is distributing a number of "The 

 Handy Memorandum Desk Calendars" which have a page for 

 every day in the year, the front of the page giving the day of 

 the month and underneath that in small type three whole months, 

 while on the back there is ample space for any memoranda. The 

 leaves are 3 by 4 inches in size, which gives abundant writing 

 space. These leaves are intended to be placed on the little metal 

 frames that are familiar to users of this sort of calendar. A 

 good many business men wouldn't feel that they could start their 

 day's work until they had turned over a page in one of these 

 familiar desk conveniences. 



The American Asphaltum and Rubber Co., of Chicago, 

 Illinois, has favored its customers with a very convenient 

 little leather pocket-book, having a pocket at one side con- 

 taining a celluloid calendar for 1913, and on the other side 

 a memorandum pad supplied with a number of small mem- 

 orandum slips about 2'/2 by 4 inches in size. This is a 

 souvenir that anybody might be pleased to get. 



The Dunlop Tire and Rubber Co., Toronto, Canada, has 

 distributed a little Christmas booklet of 16 pages and cover 

 printed in red and green and black, giving in a humorous 

 vein the story of its 20 years of successful operation. 



White & Reid, rubberizers of textile fabrics, Hoboken, 

 New Jersey, have mailed to many members of the rubber 

 trade an engraved folder ornamented with a spring of holly, 

 extending the compliments of the season, and wishing their 

 customers and all their employees a happy and prosperous 

 New Year. 



The Derby Rubber Co., Derby, Connecticut, has favored some 

 of its friends with a particularly convenient pocket memorandum 

 book Syi X S'/i inches in size, having a flexible leather cover 

 in which is inserted a pad of about 100 leaves provided with a 

 sheet of carbon paper, so that one may not only make a memo- 

 randum, but also keep a copy of the same. The leaves are 

 perforated at the top so as to be easily detached. An additional 



pad goes to complete the equipment — a very great convenience — 

 particularly for the traveling man who wants to send a memo- 

 randum to the home office and still keep a copy himself. 



The Seiby Shoe Co., Portsmouth, Illinois, mailed at Christ- 

 mas time to its customers, a seasonable card ornamented with 

 gilt bells and holly sprigs, carrying the company's good wishes 

 for a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 



LECTURING ON EUBBEjJ. 



Mr. C. H. Guild, Jr., connected with the general manager's 

 office of the United States Rubber Co., and son of C. H. Guild, 

 treasurer of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., gave a lecture recently 

 in Brooklyn (to which tlie "Brooklyn Eagle" devoted nearly half 

 a column) on "The Biography of a Rubber Shoe from the Tree 

 to the Foot," in which he described the processes through which 

 rubber goes from the time it leaves the tree as cream-like latex 

 to the time that it goes on the foot as a rubber shoe — and beyond 

 that through its post-mortem and revivification as reclaimed 

 rubber. Mr. Guild illustrated his lecture by samples of crude 

 rubber, and by making a shoe where all the spectators could 

 watch the operation. 



There is so much interest in rubber these days because of the 

 extremely important position it occupies among the industries 

 of the world that a good lecturer on the subject can always 

 command an attentive audience. 



PRINTERS WHO PRINT ON RUBBER. 



Printing establishments are innumerable in this country, as the 

 output of literature of one sort or another is voluminous and un- 

 ceasing; but printers who print on rubber are scarce. The 



RoGiiR- Williams Printing Co. 



Roger-Williams Printing Co., of Providence, Rhode Island, print 

 on all kinds of rubberized fabrics. They print a great many 

 handsome designs in many colors, as was shown in The India 

 Rubber World for last March. Their work has been very suc- 

 cessful, and they have been compelled recently to add consider- 

 ably to their quarters. This added space is shown in the cut of 

 the building given below. They print in fast colors that have 

 been thoroughly tested and are guaranteed not to injure rubber 

 in any way. 



SCHRADER TAKES THE TWITCHELL PATENT. 



A. Schrader's Son, Inc., of New York, has acquired the entire 

 right, title and interest in the Tvvitchell tire gauge patent. This 

 acquisition, together with the Schrader patents already owned 

 by the company, places the entire tire pencil-gauge business in the 

 hands of this company. 



