Another type of book aimed directly at the housekeeper is best represented by the Wallace Hostess Book, issued by the R. Wallace and Sons Mfg. Co., maker of silverware. It costs fifty cents and is featured in the company’s advertising.
This is really a text book on household etiquette. Printed on a very good quality of paper, bound in stiff board covers, its front cover an illustration by a well-known artist, this book is in make-up and contents really attractive. In fact, it is one of the finest examples of what the book offered for sale should be.
The writer, an authority on household affairs, has written the text with the young hostess especially in mind. Any possible question that might arise in the bride's mind seems to be answered. There are chapters on hospitality, on weddings, on table arrangement and service for all kinds of meals from the informal breakfast to the most formal dinner, and a dozen other kindred subjects on which the young housekeeper desires especially to be informed. All in all the book is a complete guide to the hostess, as its name implies.
The company has not made the mistake of featuring its own name too extensively. Wallace silverware is only incidental, and the book seems very unlike a piece of advertising matter. But it is good advertising, as results have proved. It could not have been published, however, had the company been forced to offer it free.
Mrs. Edward F. Teichman died at her home in Wilmett on Thursday of last week and was buried in Rose Hill cemetery. Mrs. Teichman is survived by her husband, credit manager in the Chicago office of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th February 1920
Wallingford, Conn., Feb. 10.—F. A. Wallace, W. J. Leavenworth, H. L. Wallace, George M. Wallace, of Wallingford; George H. Wilcox, George Rockwell and George M. Curtis, of Meriden, were elected directors of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at the annual meeting of the stockholders. The officers chosen were: president, F. A. Wallace: secretary, H. L. Wallace; treasurer, W. J. Leavenworth.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 12th February 1896
Charles Wingate, representing R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., and H. L. Ives, the Wilcox Silver Plate Co., Meriden, Conn., were in Toronto, last week.
Charles D. Morris, superintendent of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford, Conn., spent several days in Chicago last week visiting his brother, R. W. Morris, manager of the Chicago office.
Source: The Metal Record and Electroplater - December 1917
Through a misundertanding it was stated last week in this column that all the silver ware required for the Sherman House was supplied by the Meriden Britannia Co. The flat ware throughout was furnished by R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., their new "Joan" being the pattern selected.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 18th May 1898
Col. W. J. Leavenworth, Wallingford, awoke last Tuesday night at about 3 o’clock to find his house filled with smoke. Hastily arousing the occupants, he searched for the cause and found that a barrel in the cellar containing waste paper had caught fire, undoubtedly owing to spontaneous combustion. Had the discovery not been made until a few moments later, the fire would no doubt have proved a very serious one.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 23rd November 1892
Geo. M. Wallace, for several years Chicago representative of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the second district. He was born in Wallingford and is the son of the late Robert Wallace, who was at one time the head of the Wallace Mfg. Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th November 1906
Miss Clara Fritz, formerly a forewoman at the factory of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, died of pleurisy, last week, at her home at 99 Prince St.
R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. commenced an action in the City Court, last September, against Geo. S. Mallory to recover $662.50 due on goods purchased by him between Sept. 16, 1895, and Feb. 15. 1896. Mallory died last March, and the plaintiffs last week obtained from Judge O’Dwyer, of the City Court, an order continuing the action against M. H. Mallory and Hy. S. Glover, the executors of the deceased.
J. W. Sisson, of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.’s New York house, left Thursday night for the east. Mr. Sisson was on a missionary tour of the larger western cities, with three trunks full of the latest things in sterling ware. Of these rich wares he speaks enthusiastically, and says the trade is equally as enthusiastic. The R. Wallace & Son’s Mfg. Co.’s factory is running full time and full force, and will open the season well prepared to meet the demand. The past month has been the banner Spring month in sales in the history of the house.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 15th May 1895