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Since Lewis E. Waterman pioneered, and notably since his basic patent rights expired about 15 years ago, other makers of good fountain pens have come into the U. S. market? Sheaffer, Conklin, Parker, Wahl, Ingersoll and a dozen others. Most of them, make in addition to pens, mechanical pencils. And so well have they presented reasons for owning pen & pencil that now to carry both in purse or pocket is almost as general as to carry a clean handkerchief...
...grace and attractiveness of desk sets added this autumn to the holiday madness through which fountain pen manufacturers pass at the end of each year. For some reason the retail sellers of the pens & pencils always underestimate their holiday trade. Stocks run low; telegrams and long distance telephone talks beg for shipments...
...boomed a happy note from Fort Madison, Iowa, headquarters of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. Walter A. Sheaffer, now 61 years old, had been a prosperous jeweler there 15 years ago. In all merchants prosperity and alertness are not concomitants. In Mr. Sheaffer they were. He organized his fountain pen company; hired skilled salesmen, skilled advertisement writers. They wrought as he expected. Last spring the 9,734 shares in the company were each worth $100. Last week a buyer was obliged to pay $852 for a share, and Mr. Sheaffer sent word to stockholders that they had best assemble...
...this "copy" Dr. Bowie received a fountain pen from the New York Advertising Club...
...mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long journey, ran up the gangplank. There was a jangle of bells, a fountain of spray as the paddle wheels rolled the water; all the passengers cheered and laughed when the General Slocum backed into the East River...