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Research Update: Week of June 6, 2026

7 minute read

A second sitting with the Draves family, and the deer-mount patent we’d only heard about finally has a number: Edward W. Menger’s US 2,003,896, ‘Horn Mount’ ...

Research Update: Week of June 1, 2026

5 minute read

Tim Draves sent corrections that resolved a generation: the H&H Mengers are grandchildren — not great-grandchildren — of Menger Hotel founder William A. ...

Research Update: Week of June 4, 2026

6 minute read

The Menger family genealogy resolved across three generations, William A. Menger’s full biography documented, cause-of-death confirmations for two Hoffmanns,...

Sales report books from the office ceiling

1 minute read

Site-recovered factory sales books whose preprinted line items confirm the H&H product roster the office tracked in the interwar period—Tea, H and H Coff...