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...Hoe, it's the best." Not every pressroom foreman agrees with this proud motto of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., maker of presses since 1803. But the company's long history has been replete with startling achievements. The many presses it has sold make Hoe as synonymous for press as Gillette is for razor, Baldwin for locomotive, Colt for pistol. It was news last week when old R. Hoe & Co. bowed to the inevitable and passed into a receivership. Company officials blamed the decline in newspaper lineage, the fact that publishers are using their old presses to the limit...
...Hoe business dates from 1803 although the company as a corporation is much younger. In 1803 one Robert Hoe, fresh from England, began making wooden hand presses in Manhattan. The company made the first flatbed and cylinder presses in the U. S. and in 1861 built the first curved stereotype-making machinery for the New York Tribune. Ten years later it built for the same paper a stereotype rotary press which had a run of 18,000 eight-page papers an hour. Four years later it built for James Gordon Bennett's Herald a four-page wide supplement press...
Thelma Lane lived peacefully on a hill farm near Glen Hazard, Tennessee mountain town. Her brother Chad lived with her; from dawn to dusk he swung a dirty hoe. Just as he had about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes...
...nine years (1919-28) Gosse made the London Times Literary Supplement portentous and powerful by his often anonymous but always well-known presence; but he had many a row to hoe before he became head gardener. Son of an almost violently religious naturalist, he was teethed on doctrine but never got nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth than working a brief, unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section...
...means confined to rakes, hoes, pitchforks and such other humble tools is American Fork & Hoe Co. with plants in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wallingford, Vt., Fort Madison, Iowa, Harriman, Tenn., and many another rural centre. About 5% of its-gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk...