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This is a newspaper article that discusses John B. Stetson's sudden death.

The annual gathering of all the Stetson employees in the great auditorium, for the Christmas celebration. John B. Stetson addresses the employees, incentives are distributed to everyone.

The edges of certain Stetson hats get curled at the Flanging Department of the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia. The edges of the hats are dampened then curled with a heated iron. It is placed on a hollow wooden form under a hugh [sic] bag of…

Located in the Forming Department of the John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, the fur was blown on to a revolving copper cone, minutely perforated, which was about three feet high, forming a thin covering of felt. This cone and the felt, protected…