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R.F. Simmons Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1900

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The R. F. Simmons Company, one of the leading jewelry concerns of Attleboro, has declared a cash dividend of 4 per cent, for the employes of their company on the wages of the past year. This allows $6,300 to be divided among the help. This is the thirtenth employes' dividend paid by the company.

Source: The Metal Industry - February 1909

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R.F. Simmons Company - Attleboro, Mass. - 1908

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R. F. Simmons & Co.. Attleboro, Mass.. are sending to the trade an acceptable little gift in the shape of a handsomely bound memo-book, with red leather cover which has earned for it the name "Simmons' Little Red Book." On the inside of the front and back covers, respectively, appear a calendar for 1899, and an advertisement of the firm, setting forth their business as "makers of the finest rolled gold plate chains and chain bracelets; also lockets and seals in gold and gold filled."

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 14th December 1898

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R.F. Simmons Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1950

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"Ed." Moore, representing R. F. Simmons Co., in Chicago and the middle west, left the city early this week for the factory at Attleboro.


Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th November 1920

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R.F. Simmons Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1901

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R. F. Simmons & Co.. Attleboro. Mass., makers of the well known "Old Standard Simmons’ Chains, who, as previously stated in these columns, have experienced an unusually satisfactory Fall season, are now busily engaged preparing new lines for 1899. Those who are familiar with R. F. Simmons & Co.'s standing in the trade need not be assured that the new productions will he fully up to the standard of excellence of the concern's previous efforts. Among their new lines are lorgnette chains, fitted with the popular coral slides. These chains are shown in great variety.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th January 1899

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An unusual distinction has been given the R. F. Simmons Co., Attleboro, Mass., the manufacturers of the Simmons chains. Six of the most popularly known men in the country selected watch chains for their own personal use from the great number of beautiful designs offered by this firm and permitted their names to be given to the chains they chose. In order that their retailers might take full advantage of this honor done Simmons chains the firm has placed them in beautiful individual boxes with the names of the celebrities who chose each one clearly marked in the satin lined cover. This enables the retailer to profit by the instinctive longing which every man has to own the thing he has seen worn by someone he admires. The men who chose these chains–Christie Mathewson, Enrico Caruso, John Barrymore, Holworthy Hall, John Philip Sousa and Earle Williams– each has a country-wide legion of admirers. Their following is scattered through every metropolis, town and village in the country, and the admirers of each of the six men belong to a separate, distinct, public, alike only in their eagerness to imitate the man they admire. Their photographs displayed on the counter or in the window of any jewelry' store in America would claim attention and interest. The Simmons plan in connection with these six chains is interesting jewelers everywhere. The R. F. Simmons Co. is supplying its retailers with the set of celebrity chains in the individual boxes, charging only for the chains, with a set of photographs bearing the name and the words "Christie Mathewson Simmons Chains" or "Holworthy Hall Simmons Chains," as the case may be, with a proof of the full page advertisement which will appear in the Saturday Evening Post and with an attractive folder about the celebrities and the chains they chose.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th September 1917

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Christian Klee, pattern-maker for the R. F. Simmons Co., Attleboro. Mass., was in town, last week, after new ideas.


Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th August 1909

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Jarvis M. B. White, a veteran of the Civil War, and for 17 years with R. F. Simmons Co., died on Monday. The funeral will be to-morrow afternoon.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th May 1901

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Louis Jones, salesman for R.F. Simmons & Co., received word Saturday of the death of his father, George Jones, of Sandwich, Mass.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd November 1898

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R.F. Simmons Company - Attleboro, Mass. - 1905

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R.F. Simmons Company - Attleboro, Mass. - 1921

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Source: Official Gazette - United States Patent Office - 17th August 1948

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R. F. Simmons Co. Declares Second Profit-Sharing Dividend To Employes

Attleboro, Mass., Feb. 2.—The R. F. Simmons Co. within the past few days has been making a distribution of the percentage of its profits guaranteed to the help under the recently inaugurated profit-sharing arrangement. At a meeting of the directors of the R. F. Simmons Co., held Jan. 22, 1903, a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent, was declared to the stockholders on record Jan. 1, 1903.

At this same meeting it was also voted to pay in cash to the employes of the company on or before Feb. 1, a profit-sharing dividend covering the period from July 1, 1902. The dividend amounts to 2.59 per cent.


Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th February 1903

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Christian Klee, who for 43 years was employed at the factory of the R. F. Simmons Co., died last Friday after a short illness.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th November 1921

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R.F. Simmons Company - Attleboro, Mass. - 1909

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