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and the annual show will bring together the best minds, the finest
ideas, and will find adequate capital and capable managers in both
the manufacturing and operating ends.
It will be impossible for anyone to come to this convention and
not go home inspired and pepped up with new enthusiasm and new
ideas. Twenty years from now the pioneers in this movement will
be honored in the trade. It will mark an epoch in the history of
the industry, and the march of events henceforth will be reckoned
from the year of the first convention and exposition in 1926.
Ruling of Illinois
Attorney General
Mills to Build $500,000
Plant
A gambling device was described
by Attorney General Carlstrom, o f
Illinois,
as
“ something tangible,
adapted and designed fo r the purpose
o f playing a game o f chance fo r
m oney.”
“ A m ong some o f the devices,” the
attorney general said, “ which have
been held to be within the term ‘gam
bling device’ as used in the statutes
o f different states are: Crackles,
cnap tables, dice, dice and chips used
in a game o f craps, equality French
pool, keno, lottery, loto, pack o f cards,
pico, punchboard, rondo, shuffleboard,
six-wheel, stock clock, tables used fo r
playing pool and billiards, tables with
poker chips and cards used fo r gam
bling, tenpin alley and wheel o f fo r
tune.
“ A slot machine where one who
plays it stands to win or lose .money,
trade or trade checks by hazard or
chance is a gambling device.”
The attorney general also quoted
the statutes which define a gambling
device as "every clock, tape machine,
slot machine or other machine or de
vice fo r the reception o f money on
chance, or upon the action o f which
money is staked, hazarded, bet, won
or lost.”
The Mills N ovelty Company, now
at 221 South Green street, Chicago,
has bought the fou r story factory and
some equipment at 4110 Fullerton,
lot 575x588, from the Lyon Music
Company fo r a reported $625,000.
The new owner will erect a $500,00
fou r story addition to be used partly
fo r
administration purposes and
partly fo r .manufacturing.
John A. Miller, 118 N. M onroe St.,
Dearborn, Mich., has sold his route
in Dearborn, and says he is looking
fo r a new location.
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California After
Lease Promoters
La Verne, Calif. — Upon the
strength o f very explicit information
from the state corporation commis
sioner’s office to A. V. Storer, o f the
Pomona Valley Merchants’ Credit
Association, a warning is issued to
residents o f this district regarding
the (jlaims and offerings o f sales
agents and promoters with various
kinds o f slot machines and recepta
cles fo r the distribution o f sand
wiches, cooked foods, postage stamps,
etc.
Mr. Storer advises all prospective
investors in these lease schemes to
telephone his office before paying
over any money.
Incorporated
Central Vending Machine Sales
Company, Shawnee, Kenneth Kienzle,
Mrs. Carol E. Rounti'ee, all o f Shaw
nee, Okla., capital $1,000.
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