Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-03
now LADIES HATS ARE MADE.
l have just visited an establishment Tor the
of ladies hats and hat frames

l have just visited an establishment Tor the
manufacture of ladies hats and hat frames
By machinery. Inventive genius and Elil!
have 80 perfected machines for this wo K.
that these ''cr0wns # glory" for the fair sox
can b. produced with marvellous rariejity AM
eheapFiess- Ard as these machines interest
ed me viii give q brief description Of them.
They are iron dies-upper and lower stand.
ing on sn iron table supported by iron ND
Tights, the upper die worked up and down hy
means Of springs and a foot fever. These
dies. or Ynolds, are heated BY Jets OF burning
them. Then piece Of velvet. satin. or what
ever material l. used, cut OF the right ze
and pasted on to piece of buckrsm, IL wet
AMI stitched over the lower die, b. two men
on opposite sides Of the machine, ard the
upper Gle press ed down upon it. The edges OF
the cloth are then turned mp, and brass wires
fastened around tn, m, pressing them against
the outside Cf the hat die TO make the I'm
roll SHAPED, aud in about two miuutes-bv
the time three moro hats are placed in az 3,
ny the same hards--it " ready to be taken
Of The superfuOus edges are then cui OF
by sn expert ''scissorsr aud the hat Is the,,
csdy to- be transferred to the finishing
room, whore a hundred girls, or more. finish
them ready for sale to the trade. Different
stsles require different dice. Hat frames are
made IN the same way. Comparatively few
bOnrets are sold now. laliesgeneralIy iakino
TO hats. Two men can worktcur machines
and make IS dozen hats day.
The only miilirery borse Il Che West
that has these machinee, 10 the firm OF
eAGE BsoTHEz Is CO., -
Imrorters, Msuufacfurers md Jobbcrs o.
| Millinery Goods rs Lake street. Up STAIRS
he oldest and lsrcest house doing an err
c,tsire'y Millinery business fnfhs Northwest
Their maaufactOry gives them a decided
| advantage over the r compe titors. Forme rlv.
when rsiying ON Esstern manufacturer as
..rTN
fouDd great difficulty IN fling orders salts
factorily. Now they have dies of twenty diff
re rent shapes, prominent among which are the
Comet, Bertha. Dauntless. Ruby. Rob Row,
Saratoga, Kate, Lizzie, Rhine, Caroline. M elc
and Sailor, and can supply hats and hat frames
OF the above leading -hapes. of superior m =
terlal, at Eastern prices, either from stock or
on short ootice, and dealers who buy here
VIII be sure Il q their orders filed. Their
goods are we'll made and firlir he'd, and VIII
compare favorably with any similar goods
made N the country. Case buyers can have
proval. JobbeTs If ladies' Hats and Millinery
gDOds, heretofore in the habit of purcha~ing
last. can now get their supplies near home.
ar Eastern manufacturers price,, and thus
cave time. expen e Of travel and freight, and
delay in the recent of gOcds-items whose
sum ofteu make the difference between sue
cess and failure in business. The character
OF the honse lie too well established to need
conimondation. The number OF their Gus
toners aud he increasing volume of their
trade are their best endorse ment. a lead
ing trait Of this house is ProInptIless ia tiltag
orders
There Is slight lull in
ANUsEMESTs
Just now, in part due to the fact that there
are less strangers in town than two weeks
ago, and in part to the less interesting char
acter OF the plays and the leading actors.
We are to have
WEST SIDE THEATRE
opened about the middle of November.