Textile Services this month will surpass a major milestone. With September’s issue, you’ll note on our cover that we’ve begun our 100th set of 12 monthly issues, or volume. That puts this magazine in select company—not only among trade publications but all magazines, particularly those that have continued to publish and thrive—as ours has—in the Internet era.
 
However, like many of the commercial laundries we serve, Textile Services began as a startup. The magazine, originally known as the Linen Supply News launched in August 1917 as an eight-page tabloid. Association news was prominent in that inaugural issue ...