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Bruner Ivory IGot Start IBack in 1888 IW, E.. Bruner, Founder of ■Bruner IVory Handle Company* ■began shaving handles by hand (\ | ■in Northern Missouri in IBM, ■moved to Arkansas in 1904. In ■1901, Tom King and associates ■founded the Ivory Handle Co. j ■of Hope,. IIn 1933 W. E. Bruner Sons \mof Heber Springs purchased the. ( ■Ivory Handle Company of Hope, I ■merged the two businesses, con* \ ■solidating their business at ■Hope and formed the Bruner i fl Ivory Handle Company. t (J fjl The plant today has two divi- Isions, No; 1 for the Manufacture Iof Hickory Axe, Pick, Hammer, IHatchet Sledge and kindred Ihandles. No. 2, for the manu- Ifacture of Ash Fork, Bake, Hoe, IShovel and kindred handles. IBranch plants, producing raw Imaterial are located at El Do* IIrado, Thornton and in Grant I ICounty Arkansas. Other mills Iproducing handle blanks for \\ il Bruner Ivory are located in IOklahoma, Texas and Louisi- Iana. • • 1The annual payroll of the \|Hope plant is nearly $700,000, V.with an average of 200 employ- J,GGS * •Approximately 3,000,000 handles are produced annually, and are shipped to every state in the union, as well as to Canada, { Mexico, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, Australia and \New Zealand. Many of these fhandles bear Bruner Ivory la- jbels and brands, spreading the |name and fame of Hope |throughout the world. |
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Hope Star
Hope, Arkansas, US
Fri, Oct 25, 1963
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