Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — Letter To Mr. Sherman Richards. [ARTICLE]

Letter To Mr. Sherman Richards.

Rensselaer, Ind.

Dear Sir: You painters have a sort of natural prejudice against ready paints; and considering the quality of some of them] we don’t blame you. But we paint makers know some thing that it might pay you to learn; and one of them is that paint materials can be better mixed in large quantities by machinery than by hand. Better mixed means that the paint covers better, brushes out smoother, 'and lasts better in the wear. And we can also get oui proportions very exact; another point which’guess work or hand-mixing can’t do. We make Devoe lead and zinc paint of the same materials that good painters use; lead, zinc, oolor, linseed oil, turpentine dryer we mix these together by mechanical means, in the right proportion. Out in Sioux ttapids, la., is a painter named T. Alvastadt. He has been a good painter for 15 years and has used at one time or another nearly every brand of mix ed paint known. He says that Devoe lead-and zinc is the best paint he ever used; covers more to the gallon, does it better, and spreads easier than any paint he ever put a brush into. You might try it and see if he’s right. Yours truly ~“~ F. W. Devoe & Co. New York add Chicago. B. F. Fendig sells our paint.