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...Sheaffer Pen Co. boasts the largest dollar sales of any pen manufacturer in the U. S. When it was founded in a Fort Madison, Iowa jeweler's shop in 1913, most fountain pens clogged, scratched, leaked or had to be filled with a medicine dropper. Jeweler Walter A. Sheaffer patented one of the first important improvements-a lever bar filling device. With a capital of $35,000 he started manufacturing Sheaffer pens in the back room of his jewelry shop...
...company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time with the committee. He admitted that Postmaster Brown had promised a transcontinental mail contract if T. A. T. would merge with Western Air Express. Result: the merged company, Transcontinental & Western Air, now flies the mail. After a noon recess...
...first accounts was that of Samuel Insull and he still handles most of the Insull advertising business. He denies a persistent rumor that he is related to Samuel Insull by marriage. In addition to his utility accounts he has Curtiss Candy (Baby Ruth), Florsheim Shoes, Paris Garters, Rosehill Cemetery, Sheaffer Pens. Well known in circles other than advertising, he sits on Chicago's Board of Education. His interest in public affairs derives from his long friendship with Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart. Boss Taggart controlled French Lick Springs, and the McJunkin Agency still has its account...
Walter A. Sheaffer, president of W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.: "Believe it would be a serious mistake...
...last week's pandemonium 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...