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Cheney Brothers Employee Newsletters


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October 1922 Cheney Brothers newsletter Photo of Cheney Brothers' New York HQ, occupying basement, first, second, and third floors • Ten Rules for making good at work and qualities of successful employees • Clue club activities • Photo Noon hour at the mills in Manchester • Plans for Second International Silk Exposition to be held in NY February 5 to 15, 1923 • Inspirational tips with Socrates quotes • Men's Club activities: Bowling, theatre production, smoker • Photo by employee of his vacation. • Listen to Babson opinion piece about the economy and taxes • Silken Threads notes about employees: job changes, marriage, engagement, etc. • New books at company library • Ad for the Clue club "Smoker" and where to get tickets (75 cents each), dinner, music, and speakers Clifford Cheney, Col. Heckman, J.C. McMichaels.
November 1922 Cheney Brothers newsletter. Advertisement for The Sporting Costume • Point of Contact • The essence of buying and selling • Don't Worry; Concentration • Stone in the Road • Clifford Cheney Greeted by a Hundred Members at Green Clue Smoker Col Heckman and J.C. McMichael Give Interesting Talks • Kelly, Dople and McAllister Feature Entertainment • Cheney Silks for Spring • Silk Mill News • Bandana Handkerchief the Rage • D. G. Men Dine (Dress Goods) • The Magic Workers • People We Know, Miss Berhard, Miss Sedweek, Miss Dawson • Silken Threads • Thanksgiving in Cheney Land • A Departmental Ditty • Miss Brown Now Clue Librarian • Cheney Limericks • Cheer for the Girls • A half-pint effort will never hold a gallon of results • Book References • Heralding the third Clue House Party at Hotel McAlpin.
December 1922 Cheney Brothers newsletter. • What is the Christmas Spirit? • Second International Silk Exposition • Annual Red Cross Drive • For Lovers of Winter Sports • S. I. Warren Nominated for Director in S. T. A. • Volunteer Waiters for Next Clue Smoker; Mr. Budd grants permission to use Upholstery Floor • A Group of Cheney Spring Silks (picture) • Bring Family, Friends and Sweethearts; House Party • Laugh This Off (dinner menu) • Graphic Map of Silk Trade History • Silken Threads; employee news • Mary Pickford Visits the Store • Cheney Limericks • For the Letter Writer • Bowling Schedule • People We Know, G. R. Boyce, Miss Grace Owens, Ed Smith • Some Phases of the Work of the Medical Department at the Mill • Visits to Medical Department graph • Col. Heckman Speaks to the Get-Together Club • Delve Into Records for Service Awards • Cheney Silks advertisement with drawings.
October 1923 Cheney Brothers newsletter This was a special issue commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Manchester's founding, and a very festive time in Manchester, with a grand parade, concerts, and similar celebratory activities. CONTENTS: 1838-1923, 85 years of silk mill manufacturing • Thousands Visit Industrial Exhibit, including photo of Cheney Brothers' Silkworm in parade; Cheney Silk Exhibit; Cheney Machine Shop; Pageant Wins Praise; Manchester Celebrates Centennial • Cheney Silks by Radio, Talk Given by Henry Creange, Station W.E.A.F., September 20th, 1923 • Historical Sketch of Cheney Brothers, From the Hartford Times Manchester Centennial Edition, The Mt. Nebo Mill; Yearly Earnings $600; Years of Struggle; Secrets of Success; Cheney Brothers Incorporated; Ribbon Washing; The Grant Reel • Historical Parade, Centennial Celebration, South Manchester, October 5th, 1923, two pages of photos of parade • Historical Sketch of Cheney Brothers, Development of Plant; Community Welfare; Public Improvements; Street Improvements; Benefit Association • Silken Threads, employee news • People We Know, Robert E. Miller; Howard Vallentine; Miss Margaret Brown • Snapped by Our Vacationists, photographs • Historic Sketch, Cheney Silks by Radio; Educational Courses; Flowers From the Garden of Time, advertisement for Cheney silks.
November 1923 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover - Photo of Miriam Hopkins in Mary Laird dress • Fitting In • The Message to Garcia, Spanish-American War; As History Records It • A Lesson in English • Dame Fashions Page, Egyptian Evening Gown; Russian Afternoon Gown; Afternoon Gown; Bouffant Evening Gown photos • Chronological Tree of the Design Periods • Silken Threads, employee news • Comic Strip • Silk Opening Forecasts Spring Fashions • Business Books • People We Know, Harry Clark; William Rowe; Leighton Tracy • Silk Mill News, Charles Allen Day, Manager of Cheney Hall, Over 53 Years Service • C.B.A.A. Holds Bazaar • Advertisement for Cheney Silks, Hogarth Line.
December 1923 Cheney Brothers newsletter Merry Christmas from Charles Cheney • Cheney Prints for 1924, Advertising Department • Special Course in Salesmanship • Miss Alexander Held Up • Books on Business and Finance • Silk Dinner • Prize Winners • Which Do You Prefer? • Get-Together Supper Big Success • Try Grading Yourself • Silken Threads, employee news • New York Birthday Marks Art Milestone • Science and Religion • People We Know, Miss Albina Romanoski; Floyd Smith; Robert Kane • Silk Mill News, Over Half Century of Service • Fillings • Next Season Cars • Weavers Lead • William R. Dunn, Over Fifty Years of Service • Backbone • Did You Know • Cheney Cravats advertisement.
March 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial, Imagination • Art In Industry Urged by Henry Creange • Recreation Pays Dividends! • There Is Nothing New Under the Sun • How Many Yards Does It Take? • Textile Course • Silken Threads • Cheney Bros. American Silks, Black and Colored, Gros Grains • When Writing Letters • Another Gem • Cheney Limericks • The Editor's Mail Bag • Carefully Selected • Tips For Typists • People We Know, Mrs. Laura Roof; Chester A. Morgan; William A. Taylor • Silk Mill News • Ladies Night Get-Together Club Big Success • Glosi Finds Favor • Prints advertisement.
April 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial: As A Man Thinketh • Diversity of the Scarf • New Books in Library • What counts • Velvet Department gives Reception to Richard J. Mommers, The Pioneer Velvet Maker of The United States • The Silk Association of America • Get-Together Club Hears About Sales Organization • Too Modest • Budd Gives Talk to Art-inTrades Club • To Him Who Writes Letters • Silken Threads, employee news • Cheney Limericks • Annual Outing To Be Held June 10th • Silk Association of America, A Pause in the Story; Association Elects Officers • The Editor's Mailbag • People We Know, Miss Helen Brandon; U.J. Lupienl Gene Ghio • Silk Mill News, Herman Bronkie has been secured as Playing Manager to direct Cheney Brothers' Athletic Association Baseball Team for the season 1924 • Two Long Service Men, Walter Saunders and Frank Saunders • Vivid Scarfs are everywhere! Advertisement.
June 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Business Methods and Practices of Cheney Brothers • Editorial, You and Solomon • The Business Methods and Practices of Cheney Brothers, as Told by Charles Cheney • Banquet at Cheney Hall for 40 and 50 Year Service Employees, with photo • Twelfth Annual Outing, The Best Ever • Manufacturers Visit Mills • Guy Bolte Resigns • Homer S. Curtis Joins Cheney Organization • The Big Bears and the Little Bears -- the Twelfth Outing, photos • Silken Threads employee news • Educational Lectures on Silk Fabrics • What's in a Name? Ten Dollars • Cheney Limericks • People We Know, Frank Reilly; Carrie Schardt; Frederick Tietz • Get-Together Banquet A Huge Success • Cheney Silks advertisement, Cesar Borgia.
July 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial: The Point of Contact • Decorative Silks in America • Development of the Silk Industry in America; The Beginning; Cheney Brothers take up Decorative Silk Manufacture; Silk Statistics; New York Decorators in 1880; Then and Now • Prizes for Names • Wandering in the Swiss Alps • In the Good Old Summer Time Vacation Days! (comics) • Silken Threads: Employee News • Cheney Limericks • People We Know: Martin J. Bennett; Miss Rose Coghlan; Carl Warth • Silk Mill News: Ribbon Mill Has Outing • Conference at Conditioning and Testing Laboratories • Herb Ingham • Express Stop Needed • The Perpetual Change • The Missionary Spirit, By Roger W. Babson.
Fall 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial: Imagination in Business • Insurance Doubled Without Extra Cost; Amendments to the By-Laws of the Benefit Association of Cheney Brothers, September 8, 1924 • Educational Courses of Special Interest • Ambition: a poem • A Story of Printed Decorative Silks by F.W. Budd • Cheney Prints Have Attracted Attention • The Style Chart Innovation; Cheney Style Service Chart of Fabrics and Colors for Fall and Winter 1924-1925 • Silken Threads, employee news • Cheney Limericks • People We Know -- Franklyn D. Griffin; Elsie Snyder; Elizabeth Killion • Silk Mill News -- New Stage Settings for Cheney Hall; William H. Coates; Third Annual Outing; Norman L. Hope, obituary • More About Salesmanship, Written Expressly for Eighteen Thirty Eight by a good friend of Mr. Budd • Cheney Silks advertisement.
November 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial -- This Hits Us All • Modern Art Period Finds First Expression in America in Textiles • Cheney Brothers' Bond Issue, Charles Cheney makes statement; A Fast Color Crepe Jersey • The Holzach Collection Shown; Forty Years Ago; It was a Pleasure to Show Her Around; The New Scarfs; The Lure of the Sea • Silken Threads -- employee news • Cheney Bowlers Open Season of 1924-1925, Team Off To A Good Start; Strikes and Spares; Schedule • Silk Mill News, Charles Cheney To Talk on Advertising New England; Hartford Meeting Will Visit Mills; Filene Present; Visit Factories; Roger Babson Also; Exhibition; Final Program • Educational Movies at Cheney Hall; Truth; Making It Easier • Jacquard -- Advertisement.
December 1924 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial -- Christmas • For Tom, Dick and Harry, An article from The Silk Traveler which was inspired by an interview with Charles Cheney • Shall Stocks Be Starved Another Season? • Cheney Brothers Wins First Prize • Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time • Silk Prices 25 Points Lower Than Woolens or Cotton Cloths; Good Stuff • Celebrities In Gowns By Gifted Modelers • A Cross Word Puzzle, By Elizabeth Paine • Silken Threads -- employee news • A Stitch in Time • Cheney Limericks • Books to Read • People We Know -- John Small; George Bredder; Tom McLaughlin • Advertising Delegates Visit Mills; Sir Henry Thornton Visits Silk Mills; Colonel Osborn Speaker at the Get Together; Edgewood House Set-Back Tournaments; The Book of Information for Cheney Brothers Employees; Get Together Christmas Party • Don't • Indirect Problems of Industry, An Address by U.J. Lupien Before the Men's League of the Center Church • Mistakes • Rules For Health • Why We Should Co-Operate in Business • Handle With Gloves • In the Rue Beauregard, advertisement.
January 1925 Cheney Brothers newsletter Front Cover: photo of silk reeling • Editorial: Picking a Winner • Chamber of Commerce Hears Charles Cheney; Smooth Running Machine; A Silken Bond; Communism; In the Same Boat; The Complete Industry; Human Hands; Wage Problems; Style Leadership; Our Own Problems; Service Record of Sales Organization, New York; Enthusiasm • What About 1925? By Horace B. Cheney • Cheney Puzzle Fans Busy • Cheney Bowlers Going Strong • Silken Threads, employee news • Cheney Folks' Service Long; Silk Association Dinner • People We Know, Henry J. Reuman; Lawrence Dalton; Mrs. Elsie Scheu Henry • Silk Mill News: Christmas Party Get-Together • Charles Day Honored; Fifty-Four Years of Service; Needed a Rest; Mr. Day's Answer • A Simple Formula • Benefit Association of Cheney Bros. Statement For Quarter Ending Dec. 27, 1924 • Cheney Creations Win Trade at Fashion Show • A Flemish Brocade of the Seventeenth Century, advertisement.
April-May 1925 Cheney Brothers newsletter Editorial: Getting More Out • Cheney Holiday up the Hudson to take place Tuesday, June 9th • Cheney Brothers New Sales Rooms • Photo: Madison-Belmont Building, Madison Avenue and 34th Street, as it will appear when completed • Cubism Invades Fall Silk Fashions Multicolored Printed Velvets Crowning Textile Achievement; Figured Velvet Printed with Roman Stripe Effects; Monotone and Two-Tone Figured Velvets Also Shown • Cubist Influence in New Silks • All-Over Tendency in Design; Tinsels Show Half and Half and Three-Tone Ideas; Checked Tinsel Piquant Design; New Crepe Tinsel Introduced; Crepe Satins Show Jacquard Designs in Geometric and Floral Patterns; New Coat Material of Rayon and Silk; Silhouettes Are Worn Inside Coats; New Ferroniere Designs in Silks for Rich Lining Effects; Ensemble Theme to Dominate Fall Fashions; Cheney Weaves, Cheney Silks labels; Microkrepe and Frostkrepe Lead in Plain Fabrics; New Fabrics Are a 54-Inch Satin, and a Surah; Ribbed Fabrics Retain Favor • Flat Crepes More Popular Than Ever; Fall Colors Rich But Soft; Evening Colors Favor Pastel Shades • Silken Threads, employee news • Summary of the Report of the Benefit Association of Cheney Brothers, Year Ending March 28th, 1925 • People We Know: Mrs. Estrella Matthews; Joseph Plum; Miss Lillian Jelley • Silk Mill News: Back In The Early Eighties • Advertisement: Cheney Silks shown at Paris Exhibition.
June 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Set-up for making a warp; Mary Strong, Instructor • Photos of Albert Jackson; Martha Popple; John Cargo; Almeron Hollister • Story of 370,538 Bottles of Milk Successfully Distributed for Two Years; One Sixth Of Employees Buy It Daily • Found Few Changes To Recommend -- Safety and Sanitation Committee; Spinning Mill Safety; Sanitation; B.G. Weaving Mill • Tells How Funds Are Distributed • What's Happening In Departmental Meetings Of Works Council • John Mitchell; William B. Lull; John Kongiebel; Sven A. Lindberg; Thomas Wright • Equal Distribution Is Aim; Within Another Year Benefit Association Will Have Paid $2,000,000, For Which Members Contributed $850,000; Benefits Increased • Twenty-Year Summary of Benefit Association, November 1, 1910 to March 29, 1930; Returns By Class; $2,000,000 In Benefits; Drive Nets Near $3000 For Fund • Warping -- A Picturesque Operation; How Lease Is Taken; Strength of Warp; Beaming • Growth of Medical Department, Service Dates from 1916 • Nurse Employed by Cheney Brothers Once Made Visits on Bicycle; Begins X-Ray Work; Consult Specialists • Dr. Knapp to Give Radio Address • Making the Job Safe, The Responsibilities of Supervisors; He Warns Them; Enforces Rules • Week End At Camp • Changes at New York Store, New Layout of Sales Headquarters Improves Office Efficiency and Service to Customers; Dress Goods Display; Speeds Service • Cheney Cravats advertisement.
July 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover photo of Louis Lane, fast hand twister joining two warps • Manufacturing Standards -- Works Council Speaker Tells How Standardization Meets Competition And Battles Waste; Effects of World War; The Best Way; Mr. Gantt's Work; Functional Control; Standards Must Change; Promotes Coordination; Would Salvage Ideas • Will Finish Term -- Joseph Lyttle • Result of the Drive • Your Representatives: Edith Jackson; Ralph Vondeck; Arthur Larder; James Finnegan; Ruth Hanson • That Dress of Mine • Wherein It Appears That No End of Education Will Improve An Ungrateful Frock by Jane Grey Swisshelm; photo • Thousands Earned By Suggestions • Disposition of Employee Suggestions • Skill of the Hand -- Nimble Fingers Twist or Draw in Silk in Preparation for the Loom; photo of Louisa Hahn and Dorothy Brennan at loom; How Hand Job is Done; Drawing-In; Reeding • Business Outlook • Girls' A. A. Program • Making the Job The Responsibility of Employee; Negligence A Result; The Careful Employee • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings -- Velvet Mill; Auxiliary Department; Weaving Mill; Throwing, Winding & Spooling • Question Box • Special Sale of Patchwork Pieces, advertisement.
August 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover photo: Joseph Falkowski and William Crawford working looms • WAGE ~ How Shall It Be Determined? 1. Day and Piece Rate; Day Wage System; Piece Work • Outlook For Dressing Room Employees • Department Enlarges Spinning Capacity • Question Box • Photo of evening attire • How Are Your Eyes? When Eyes Need Correction; Good Light Helps • These Suggestions Won Awards • New Sales Manager For Cravats • Tedford Describes Cravat Manufacture, Tells Works Council How Machine And Hand Sewn Ties Are Made; Machine Made Tie; Hand Tailored Tie • For Vacation Success • Your Works Council Representatives -- Albert Behrend; Nellie Rock; Roy Norris; William Harss; Joseph Lyttle; George Hahn • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; Auxiliary Division; Throwing, Winding and Spooling; Velvet Mill • Tennis Tournament in September • Compensation -- Old Plan of System of Compensation Suited Neither Employer Nor Employee; More Questions • Yarn Operations End at the Loom -- Weave Room Equipment Represents Largest Machine Investment In Plant • They Gave 130 Years of Service -- Amandus Freberg; James Egan; William Priess • Cheney Brothers Remnant Salesroom Announces Three Important Features.
September 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Men working machines in mill • Chairman Tells How Works Council Can Achieve Greatest Success, By Albert Jackson, Chairman of the Works Council • I Knew Him When -- with photo of older employees, including C. Herman Cheney • Article on the story of velvet weaving and the invention of the power loom • Remnant Salesroom To Be Enlarged • Wage ~ How Shall It Be Determined? Task and Bonus System: The Recognition of Individual Achievement; the second in a series of articles explaining Cheney Brothers' wage system; Task and Bonus; Job Classification; Credit Rating • Department Meetings; Throwing, Winding and Spooling; Auxiliary Division; Velvet Mill • Photo of Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall, draperies and chair coverings made by Cheney. • Compensation Brings Security • Design Pirate Reaps But Does Not Sow -- Reputable Manufacturers and Artists Seek Protection Against The Copier • Your Works Council: John Boland; Axel Swenson; Irving Keeney; Patrick Mooney; John Laking; Michael Tierney • Suggestions Wanted on These Subjects (Listed by the Broad Goods Weaving Department) 1. Automatic Warp Let-Offs; Tension Control On All Operations; Pick Finders or Joint Makers • Named to Council • These Suggestions Won Awards • Two Receive Pensions: Miss Mary Woods; Theodore Bidwell • Build Resistance To Winter Colds • Question Box • Cheney Transparent Velvet Offered By Cheney Brothers Salesroom.
October 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Theodore Robbins, Jacquard weaver at loom • Works Council Elections Soon; Primaries Set for Oct. 20, Finals A Week Later -- Management Will Appoint Its Representatives • Question Box • Cheney Hall -- A Marvel of the Sixties; When Coach Service To Hartford Cost A Week's Wage, Cheney Hall Housed All Local Festivities • Close Edgewood Dining Room • Cheney Jacquards Unrivalled In This Country; Some Thirty Year Old Commissions Are Still In Demand; photo of Jacquard loom • Pensioned, Alexis Tournaud • Miss Giglio Wins Tennis Finals • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings • Want Extra Copies of September News • Found: M. F. Tracy • Works Council Achievements; Plant Organization Has Affected Improvements In Every Department and Has Performed Many Confidential Services; Revision of Task, Bonus & Premium System; Changes in Credit Rating; Improvement in Working Conditions; Safety; Improvement in Process, Method, Equipment, Etc.; Benefit Association; Sanitation and Health; General Welfare of Employees; Information to Employees • Holds Annual Inspection for Safety and Sanitation; Results of Safety and Sanitation Inspections of Works Council • One Pair of Ears for a Lifetime • The Old Black Heni • Your Works Council Representatives -- Helen Washkiewich; William G. Hughes; Mary Strong • Girls End Tennis Season With Harvest Dinner • Men Resume Club Program Oct. 14 • Wage ~ How Shall It Be Determined? The Purpose and Methods of Timestudy • Can You Solve ONE of These Problems? • How the Compensation Act Operates; Law Lists Facts Which Worker Must Prove To Establish Claim --- Employer Has Four Main Defenses • News Helps Retailers Sell Cheney Silks • The New Cheney Salesroom For Remnants and Imperfect Materials, advertisement.
November 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: The Designing Studio with John Tournaud, Marion Crawford, Myrtle Volkert, and Annie Taggart • New Salesroom Opens At Cheney Hall; Pattern Service and Style Information Are Features; photo of Miss Reinita Gardner, Style Advisor • Win Suggestion Awards • Seven New Council Members Elected; Albert Jackson Again Named Chairman of Works; Representatives -- New Committees Formed; Photos of Mary Sheridan, John Bensche, Clara Jackmore, Oscar Wilson, David Benson, Joseph Skoneski, Conrad Dietz • Employee Group Names Officers • Cheney Fabrics In Style Show; Daytime Frocks; Dinner and Evening Wear; For Informal Hours at Home • The Rose Foulard • From Artist's Sketch To The Loom; Unusual Fabrics; Adapting a Design; Card Cutter's Job • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; Credit Rating; Premium Payment and Bonus Deduction; Piece Work For Weavers Unable To Run At Least Two Thirds Of A Job; Jobs Which Figure Over One Hundred Per Cent • Six Employees Receive Pensions; Ralph Russell, Sr., Mary Salvatore, William Walsh, William Perrett, Bridget Barnes, Nora Callahan • Dr. Shelton Discusses Tin Weighting Plant • Antique Costumes In A. A. Show • D. & F. Department Party At Osano's with photo of attendee • Special Sale! A Limited Amount Of Cheney Debonair, advertisement.
December 1930 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Charles Ecabert prepares silk cloth into a vat • Sun Bronzed, Seeking Health; Sanitorium Kiddies Find Greatest Joy When Company Comes By Miss Maude White, Head Nurse • Depression is World Wide Condition; Howell Cheney Describes Disastrous Result of Governmental Efforts to Hold High Prices; A World Condition; Business Depressions; The War Boom; Answers Questions • Wood Available For Employees • Wondering Won't Find The Answer • Get-Together Club Will Elect Soon • Four Are Still With Us -- photo of machine shop employees • How a Weaving Task Is Figured; The Following Explanation of the Procedure for a Specific Job in Published at the Request of Employee Members of the Editorial Committee; Standard Times; Check on Study; Figuring the Task • Timestudy Sheet Taken From Records • The Boil-Off; First of the Finishing Operations • Question and Answer on Credit Rating • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings • Guard Gateways; Keep Out Disease; Fight Colds With Fresh Air; Simple Gurgles Are Best • Weaving Mill Teams Win First Bowling Round • Benefit Ass'n Members Get More Compensation; Important Differences; 24-Hour Rule • Calculating Tasks On Weekly Basis • Win Suggestion Awards • For Christmas Gifts -- Cheney Silks, advertisement.
January 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photo of James H. Miniken, cutting a plate for a fabric design • Business Conditions • Responsibility • Answer Four Questions On Business Methods • On Committees • 32 Pensioned • Speeding Silk Across a Continent: Raw Materials Valued at Many Millions Are Specially Handled By Steamship and Railroad Companies; Cars Are Inspected; photo of steamship; photo as workers wait for trains; Panama Canal Route • B.G. Weaving Teams Head Girls' Bowling Leagues • Cheney Brothers Brought Velvet Industry To United States: Clifford D. Cheney Tells of Pioneering Days 50 Years Ago; Two Shuttle Loom; First Panne Velvet; Variety of Products • Can You Suggest-? • Johnson Named To Head Club • Lost Bonus Cases Less Frequent • Girls' Swimming Class Continues • Pensioned: Photos of Abbie Dutton; James Waddell; Kate Horan • Radio Is Gift To Sun Kiddies • Club Will Visit Bon Ami Factory • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings: Weaving Mill; Clerical Workers; Auxiliary Division; Dyeing, Printing, etc. • Over 500 Service Pins Given To Employees • Throwing, Winding, etc. • Salesroom Features, On Sale Now, advertisement.
February 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photo of Shell Room in the Dyeing and Finishing Mill • Statement Issued By the Company, wage reductions • For Relief • Bottle Mortality • Gross Injustices • Above All, We Desire Stability In This Business by Charles Cheney; Cheneys Still Highest • Questions • Women Have Chance To Exhibit Their Skill With The Needle -- But You Need Not Be An Experienced Seamstress To Win A Prize In Dressmaking Contest Now Open; Here Are The Rules • Photo of Patou dress in Cheney chiffon and formal evening gown • Designs For Prints Are Engraved On Shells; Work is Handled Successively by Sketch-Maker, Plate Cutter, Pantograph Operator and Etcher; Photo of Isabel Brown operating a Pantograph machine • They Won Suggestion Awards • Setting The Task For A Machineless Job; The Fair Speed; Allow For Delays, Etc.; Data For Setting Task • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Clerical; Throwing; Auxiliary; Photo of black Canton faille dress • Change Benefits Laid-Off Worker • New President, Get-Together Club, Karl E. Johnson • Halli's Unique Role To Be Continued • Question Box • Nan Taggart, Alice Leister Highest Among Bowlers • Ex-Servicemen • Photos of Levi Wheaton and Dennis McCarthy, Pensioners • Cheney Hall Salesroom Offers A New Cutting and Pin Fitting Service, advertisement • Your Complexion Tattles Tales; Watch Your Complexion; Baths Are Important • Dressmaking Contest Now Open, advertisement.
March 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photo of men tending large printing machine in the Dyeing and Finishing Mill Finishing Mill • Ass'n Spent $1100 To Aid The Sick • Three Win Prizes In Dress Contest; Photo of Anna Caselli, Emma Genovesi, and Mrs. Mathilda Becker • Cheneys Answer Employees Queries At Monthly Council Meeting: Clerical Pay; Salesmen; Salaries • Get-Together Hears About Typewriters • They Won Suggestion Awards • Suggestions Wanted On These Subjects • Telephone Typewriters Make Possible Exceptionally Prompt Service To Customers; Sketches and photo • Big Print Machines Turn Out Quantities Of Figured Silk; Photo of five-color printing machine; Photo of handkerchief design • Photo of Frank Tryon, pensioner • Setting Tasks For Machine Workers • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings -- Throwing, Winding, Etc.; Clerical; Auxiliary; Yarn Dyeing; Finishing; Printing; Velvet • You Need Nerve But Not Nerves • Magazine Service To Be Speeded Up • Textile Machines Loaned To School • Question Box • Two Nurses' Visits Free To Employee • Bowlers' Banquet And Election Due • Making Two Changes In Pension Rules • Vestal Bill Waits For Next Session • Girls Nearly Win In Bowling Bout • Now And A Year Ago • One Set Of Teeth For A Lifetime • Cheney Hall Salesroom Is Now Showing Spring Prints, advertisement.
April 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: The Van Vlaaderen machine for piece dyeing; operator, Armando Giancola Photo of men tending large printing machine in the Dyeing Cheney Silk News Is One Year Old • Letter to Editor • Medical Meeting to Be Held Here • Examination After Two-Week Absence • Anderson To Talk On Dye Fastness • Five Year Old Auxiliary Division Has Effected Important Economies; Organization Chart; Operating Department; Civil Engineering and Construction; Electrical Department; Mechanical Department; Woodworking Department; Mill Engineering Department; Machine Design and Research; Production Equipment; Maintenance Standards and Inspection; Rates For Men; Rates For Women • Elizabeth Cook, Pensioner, photo • Bowling Match • Piece Dye Dept Must Get The Right Color; photo of Paul Wupperfield, color matcher • Benefit Dividend Due Next Month • Two illustrations of fashions made from Cheney silk • Another Silk News Is For Customers • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings by B.G. Weaving • Throwing, Etc.; Piece Dye, Printing, Etc.; Auxiliary; Velvet • Trade School Given Discount On Looms • They Won Suggestion Awards • Ruth Hanson Elected To Head Girls' Club; Bowling Awards • Inspection Committee Finds Few Changes To Recommend • That First Dollar • Photo of Rudder Engraver • Are You A Repeater? • Ills Result From Misuse of Feet • Question Box • Cheney Hall Salesroom, advertisement.
May 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photo Palmer machine in Finishing room, being operated by Charles Carlson and Emil Hicking • Will Distribute a $66,489 Dividend • Benefit Association Statement • Fabric-Into-Fashion Sketches Show How Finished Garment Will Look; photo of McCreery's display in New York • More Problems To Solve • Question Box • Cheney Silks in New Waldorf-Astoria; Decorate Home-like Rooms in Metropolitan Hotel; photo of room • Management From Bottom Up • Silk Men, Dress Trade Cooperate • Elect Directors For Girls' Club • We Must Prepare Now To Meet The Demands Of Industry; Trade School Turns out Type of Craftsman for which State is Renouned; Historical Sketch; Industrial Connecticut; Vocational Education; At South Manchester; photo of Trade School's machine shop; Courses of Instruction; How Trades Are Taught • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; Throwing, Winding, Etc.; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Velvet; Auxiliary • First Dollar Was The Hardest -- Or So it Seems From Employees' Horatio Alger Stories of Early Ventures; Charles Cheney; Austin Cheney; E. Ballsieper, Sr.; R.C. Pillsbury; J.W. Nickerson; L.S. Carter; Harry Benson; William J. Rowe; B.L. Knight; H.R. Mallory; A.F. Lashinske; William N. Sweet; John L. Reinartz; Otto L. Seelert; Albert Robinson • Pay $2.00 Charge For Refraction • Dexter and Taylor Invited to Speak • Series of Operations Give Desired Finish; photo of Max Shaller running Hydraulic Calender • Frank Cheney, Jr. Again President • Loomfixer and Weaver Pensioned: Robert Curran and Mrs. Johanna Schurmann • What Interference Means In Tasks • Girls A. A. Treasurer's Report • They Won Suggestion Awards • Prevent Accidents • Cheney Hall Salesroom Special Next Week, advertisement.
June 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photo of Fadeometer in Research Laboratory Photo Palmer machine • Today's Resume of the Silk Industry • A Glance Way Back To 1843 Leaves Us Almost Cheerful • Quality Control Keeps Goods Up To Standard • Subjects Discussed Include Wage Readjustment at New York Store • Question Box • Committee Plans Council Meetings • Photo: Not a Masquerade -- They Are Real Cooks • Sales Tag Says It's A Cheney Print; Photo of Aura Crepe dresses • Ass'n Will Study Industry's Ills • Girls' A. A. Tennis Season Opened • Avoid Accidents • Retirees: Rachel Hadden; Abbie Breen; Thompson Appleby; James H. Minikin; Mrs. Mary Trebbe; Thomas Bennison • Recalls Original Cheney Brothers • Eye-Work Counts In Fixing Size of Job -- Watching Time is Especially Important in Weaving Broad Goods Divided Into Five Classes; Minutes Per Day Per Loom; Plain and Box Looms • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings: Throwing, Winding, Etc.; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Auxiliary; Velvet • Employees' Ideas May Solve These Important Problems • Awards Number 75 To Date For 1931 -- Most Valuable Suggestions Improve Equipment and Methods, Cut Cost, Promote Health and Safety • They Won Suggestion Awards • Decorate Fabrics By Cheney Climb Sky-High In Favor; Photo of Miss Ann Harding, movie and stage star • Goods Leave Folding Room Wrapped, Labeled and Packaged For Market • Cheney Opens New Grey Goods Dept • C. A. Staye Named Vice President • Colonial Pattern In New Mt. Vernon • How They Earned The First Dollar • Good Posture Jacks Up Your Position In Life • Truth-In-Fabrics Opposes Piracy • Cheney Silk News -- New Headquarters • Advertisement This Week -- Cravats • Advertisement -- Cheney Silks, 40 Transparent Velvet.
July 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photograph, men and women gathering mulberry leaves in Japan • Photograph, Ward Cheney [webmaster's note: born 1899, died 1963] Elected President of Firm • Ward Cheney Conducts Council Meeting; Company's New Head Introduced to Employees by Charles Cheney -- Discusses Budget and Quality • E. F. Taylor Describes Throwing Dept Work; In Normal Times, Cheney Brothers Handle About 3,000 Pounds of Raw Silk Per Day, Superintendent Says • A New Product -- Cheney Craft Cravats; Cheney Craft Idea; advertisement, photograph of cravats • Team No. 5 is Victor In Second Round • Cheney Bros American Silks Black and Colored Gros Grains • What To Do If You Lose Pay Check • Entire Dental Dept Under Dr. Freiheit • Stresses Importance of High Quality • Tea Room Opened In Cheney Hall • Twenty-Four Girls Playing Tennis • Plan Shore Party For This Month • They Won Suggestion Awards • Avoid Accidents • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; Velvet; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Auxiliary; Throwing, Winding, Etc. • Urges Dressmaking Contest Next Year • Eunice Brown Wins $20 Contest Prize; photograph -- Misses Eunice Brown, Ruth Johnson and Emily Remig • Messenger Envelope Used Wastefully • Directions For Laundering Cheney Washable Silks • Monsieur Jacquard Tells His Own Story In an Old Magazine Published by the Cheney Brothers Almost a Century Ago • Photograph -- Frank M. Saunders • Ride A Hobby-Horse For Better Health • Women Again Take To Knitting, Crocheting, Embroidering; photograph of embroidery floss • Advertisement of Cheney Hall Salesroom, Printed Crepes • Advertisement about home sewing.
August 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photograph, Improved Seri-Plane Introduced By Cheney Brothers • What Happens When We Have Too Much Credit? • Photograph of Pensioner Robert McDowell • Narrates Some Results of Hoover Proposal; Effect on Silk Industry of World Politics and International Finance is Subject at Monthly Works Council Meeting • May Discuss Winter Relief For Town • Photograph: Cheney Velvet In Garment Retailers Show • Five O'clock Letters -- Ask Your Secretary About Them • The Thrice-Daily Problem of Food; Eat Common Foods; Take Your Time • Feature Manufacturers In Cheney Ad Series • Recommend Cheney Numbers For Fall • Fashion Promotes Velvet and Satin • Committee Working on Classification • Analysis Shows What Kind of Suggestions Are Needed • Girls Practice For Tennis Tournament • We Still Answer Queries If Any • What's Happening in Departmental Meetings; B.G Weaving; Clerical; Auxiliary; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Throwing, Winding, Etc. • Comparison of June Business With Year Ago; Sales Volume in United States Satisfactory, But Prices Reach Unhealthy Levels • Employment Figures • Avoid Accident • Silk Day In 1932 To Close Campaign • Advertisement: Market Finals • Cheney Brothers Complete New Seri-Plane; Improving Machine For Testing Silk And Other Fibers Is Turned Out By Laboratory and Auxiliary Division • Move To Improve Canton Quality • Machine Shop Teams Finish 3rd Round • Yokohama-Hoboken Route In 28 Days • Enter Trade Names For Cravat, Velvet • Most Accidents Happens To Hands • Have You An Idea On One Of These Problems?
September 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photographs, Defects in Reeded Silk; Cocoon Filaments • Probable Activity In Mill Depts • Employment Figures, Payroll Changes • Says New England Is Faring Better • Cheney Line As Fast As Any On Market; Dress Fabrics Undergo Stringent Tests For Color Resistance to Laundering and Exposure in Sunlight; Photograph of Louise Stavens using Launderometer • There Is No Such Thing As Too Much Water -- Outside or Inside • Raw Silk Is Tested Before Purchase; Conditioning and Testing Laboratory Learns True Quality of Raw Materials -- Reeling Defects; Diagram of Tavelette System, reeling process • Cheney To Exhibit Two Machines • Milan Silk Experts Study Seri-Plane • Steep Increase In Pension Totals • Scheduling Dept Is Next Subject • What a Full Or 100 Per Cent Job Means; For Convenience, Tasks May Be Set Slightly Above or Below The Figure Called For In The Study • Advertisement: Just the right size remnants for Scarfs • Whats Happening in Departmental Meetings; Auxiliary; Velvet; Dyeing , Finishing, Etc.; Throwing, Winding, Etc. • Have You An Idea On One Of These Problems? • They Won Suggestion Awards: Accident List For Last Month • Reduce Hazards of Accidents • Heat Was Too Much For Girl Athletes • Get-Together Club To Resume Soon • Article Next Issue; Mention Department • Of Ship, and Shoes, and Sealing Wax -- Quotations From A Silk-Grower, First Cheney Magazine, Reveal That Editors Did Not Lack Variety of Subjects • Print of the original Cheney homestead on Hartford Road • Tells Trade About Decorative Line • More Manufacturers Featured In Weekly Advertisements • Supply Service To Yard Goods Depts • Advertisement: Afternoon Elegance Satin.
October 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photographs -- wall decorations of Cheney fabrics • Councils Final Election Oct. 20 • Recommend Fewer Council Members • Pensioned -- John Lovett, with photograph • Company Announces Salary Adjustment • Plan Routine Schedule For All Products: Organization; Weaving Planning; Weaving Releases; Finishing Planning; Engraving; Velvets; Process Stores • Question Box • Citizenship classes • Even Fiber Most Desirable: Skein Inspection; Winding Test; Nature; Cohesion; Lousiness; Evenness; photograph of lousy silk; Cleanness; Neatness; Sizing • Whats Happening in Departmental Meetings: Throwing, Winding, Etc.; Auxiliary; Printing, Finishing, Etc.; Velvet • Premium Is Quality Reward • Guard Now Against Colds • They Won Suggestion Awards; Your Idea May Solve One • Free Instruction At Trade School • Accident Report • Avoid Accidents.
November 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: New Works Council Members -- Joseph McCaughey, Thomas Raby, Kerwin Elliot, Edward Wilson, Thomas Flavell, John Aliansky, Henry Coleman, William Dillon, Elizabeth Johnson, Margaret Dimlow, James Hynes, Sarah Pentland, Dennis McGuire • A Contribution, That's Not My Job! • They Won Suggestion Awards • Your Idea May Solve This One • Accident Record -- October Period • New Works Representatives Take Office -- Dennis McGuire of Velvet Mill, A Reelected Member, Becomes Chairman; Committees Formed • Tag Identifies Cheney Fabric; sketch of authentic tag • Design Registration Proves Successful • Bowling Teams • Get-Together • Unemployment Relief Plan Gets Underway -- Stephen C. Hale Tells Works Council How Committee Was Organized To Help Jobless • Departmental Meetings: Auxiliary • New Wage Rates Effective Nov. 9 • Propose To Abolish Company's Cash Gift To Benefit Assn • Broad Goods Premiums Vary With Quality Requirements -- Piece Dyed Commissions; All Other Commissions • Question Box • Pensioned: Draper Benson; John Croskey, both with photographs.
December 1931 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photograph of skeins of gold and silver tinsel for gift wrapping • Craft Cravat Scores • They Won Suggestion Awards • Accident Record -- November Period; sketch of newest Cheney tie construction • Relief Committee Head Addresses Council -- Fred A. Verplanck Tells How Community Has Mobilized To Protect Unemployed By Creating and Financing Jobs • Management Representatives For Works Committees Named • Cheney Brothers New Print Protection Policy For 1932 Is Lauded By Trade; This Is Cheney Brothers Print Policy for 1932; Will You Do Your Share?; We Realize Our Responsibility • Pensioned: Thomas J. Heritage • Believe It Or Not, Here Is State's First Silk Plant -- photograph of Hanks Mill, Mansfield, Connecticut • New Trade Names • Departmental Meetings B.G. Weaving; Auxiliary; Dyeing, Finishing, Etc.; Velvet; Throwing, Winding, Etc. • Photograph of Complete Yarn Inspection Stand • Question Box • A.A. Finishes First Bowling Round • New Committee To Do Planning • B Stock Sale.
February 1932 Cheney Brothers newsletter Cover: Photograph of Bridgeport, Conn., Salesroom For Remnants and Imperfect Goods • Open New Store - Bridgeport • They Won Awards • Accept 149 Suggestions In 1931 • Carey and Donaldson Address Works Council -- Company's Financial Adviser Discusses Sales Problem -- Weaving Superintendent Stresses Quality • Separate Deduction Made For Time Lost • Pensioned After 40-50 Years' Service: Elizabeth Harrigan; Nils Anderson; William J. Foy; August Rebelskie • Question Box • Employees Warned • Fifty Cent Club • Departmental Meetings: B.G. Weaving; Auxiliary; Velvet; Printing, Finishing, Etc.; Throw., Wind, and Spool • Photograph of Original Cheney Main Office • Employees Win Recognition For Long Service -- Frank D. Cheney and Philip Cheney In Thirty Year Group and Many Others With Firm From Fifteen To Fifty Years; Broad Goods Weaving Mill; Velvet Mill; Throwing Mill; Dyeing & Finishing; Dressing Mill; Lower Mills; Yarn Dye House; Spinning Mill; Winding & Spooling; Outside Labor, Power & Heat Machine, Electrical & Engineering Depts.; Cravat Sales; Purchasing Dept.; Industrial Relations; Chenical Laboratory; Product Engineering; Product and Compensation Research; Financial Economy Control Cravat Shipping; Financial Economy Control; New York Office • Ballsieper To Speak • Accident Record -- December Period.