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...town, situated on the west shore of Staten Island, was first called Long Neck, but the post office address was discontinued in 1866. In 1873 appeared Joseph Wild Co., later becoming American Linoleum Manufacturing Co. First superintendent of the factory was a man named Melvin. Later two communities sprang up, Travisville (after an early settler) and Linoleumville. Subsequently the post office address of both places was called Linoleumville, becoming a part of New York City...
Said the leader of the Melvin cabal: "Old man Melvin brought the linoleum factory here over 50 years ago. He did a great deal for the community. . . . They say Travis was a ship's captain who gave a bell to the Methodist Church. Well, I like Melvin and that's what my gang is voting...
...generation spun the unconscious tale of a Harvard that is swiftly changing. The poet Lowell beneath him facing the fresh quadrangle seemed to him a brother dreamer. Those two, alone, experienced bewilderment in the contemplation of these marks of modern education--the dadoes, the stippled floors of battleship linoleum, the Revolutionary tapestry, the purple paint and high table. Even the Georgian windows appeared unfamiliar in their rows six high and forty long. He took some comfort in the thought that perhaps the change would be only a physical one. If that was so he could learn to like the solid...
National Campaign for a Specific Product ($2,000)-won by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Corp. (Chicago), for a campaign of Armstrong's Linoleum floors (Armstrong, Cork...
...prize of $2,000 for a national campaign for a specific product was won by Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York. The campaign which they had conducted was that of Armstrong's, Linoleum Floors, a product of the Armstrong Cork Company...