Automatic Age

Issue: 1927 July

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A savings bank in the form of a
closed urn of baked clay with a slit
in the top has been found in the
ruins o f Utica, an ancient Phoenician
city on the African coast. It is be­
lieved to be at least 2,500 years old.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, is the home
of a unique water mill which, al­
though nine miles inland, obtains all
its power from the tides of the River
Deben. Rental records show that a
mill, probably this water mill, was
standing on the same spot 740 years
ago.
Red tape, an expression signifying
official formality and delay, owes its
origin to the red tape usually in ty­
ing up public documents.
It is said that Anatole France, the
great French writer, would go to any
lengths to avoid the use of a semi­
colon.
The discovery that the fiber of the
cocoon spun by the silkworm could
be made into cloth is ascribed to Se-
Ling-She, a Chinese queen who lived
about forty-seven centuries ago.
During the recent visit of the Duke
of York at Auckland, New Zealand,
the Maoris presented him with eight­
een carved canes.
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O f the 300,000 veterans going to
France this year, it is estimated that
912,318 will cross for the first time.—
Pottsville Journal.
Two bandits in Missouri were each
sentenced to 45 years in the peniten­
tiary on the day after the robbery.
That’s showing them.— Detroit Free
Press.
How long will it take the Chinese
if they are let alone, to fight it out
among themselves?— Boston Globe.
Alas, it is man’s fate to keep on
growing older long after he is old
enough!— Toledo Blade.
We shall not lose our temper be­
cause a French historian says the
Masques beat Columbus across the
Atlantic by several centuries, but we
warn the wretch not to claim that
the Basques sailed the blue Cape Cod
before the Cabots and Lowells.— St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
We might turn the Chinese puzzle
over to those snorts writers who are
telling the world how baseball should
be managed.— Milwaukee Journal.
A decent play, apparently, is one
that can hope for no free advertising.
— Vancouver Sun.
An inconsiderate scientist has in­
vented an antidote for snake poison,
, utterly ruining the one remaining
excuse that a lot of nature enthusi­
The tuna fish was not originally
asts had for carrying a jug.— Indian­
hunted for food but as a means of
protecting the sardine interests of the
apolis News.
Mediterranean, as the little fish were
devoured in large quantities by the
When a wife wishes she had gone
tuna.
in for a career instead of marriage
you can bet your bottom dollar she
doesn’t wish it half as much as her
According to Pliny, Cato believed
husband does.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
that husbands started kissing in or­
Now is the season of balls-—golf,
der to determine whether their wives
tennis, base and moth.—Arkansas
and daughters had been drinking
Gazette.
wine.
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T h e A u t o m a t i c A ge
W ant Ads
DO YOU COUNT PENNIES?— The
Presto Coin Counter counts and
stacks 100 pennies in 15 seconds.
Fits the pocket. Price $1.00, cash
with order. Money back if not O. K.
P. C. Smith, 901 Lafayette Parkway,
Chicago.
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PARTS for 5-10-25c machines at x
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list price— these are salvaged parts
and I* guarantee satisfaction or your
money back. Will accept any kind
of vending machines in exchange or
will buy a limited number of used
machines. H. F. Unley, Edgewater
Park, N. J.
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WE MAKE the best hand soap paste
in America, (make any test you
like.) Sell the soap at $1.00 gallon.
Sell the concentrate enough to make
ten gallons for one dollar. We have
decided to offer for exchange for
used vending machines enough of the
concentrate to make five thousand
gallons. Write fully what you have
to offer. Value concentrate at 10c
gallon. Alma Mfg. Co., Ogemaw,
Ark.
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LIVEST Selling Card Specialties
made. Sells right now to all drug­
gists, confectioners and the smaller
merchants in many other lines; also
drug, candy and grocery jobbers.
Address Plattner Co., 309 P Oak,
Kansas City, Mo.
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FOR SALE — As we are dissolving
partnership we will have to dispose
of some of our Electric Shockers and
offer them as follows:
Mills Fire Fly shockers $3.00 each;
Acme Electric shockers $5.00 each.
These machines are in good con­
dition both in workmanship and ap­
pearance, a wall bracket in included
with each machine. Western Ma­
chine Co., New Rockford, N. Dak.
FOR SALE — Fifty A. B. T. Target
Skill machines, slightly used. $25
each.
American Sales Co., 932
Wrightwood Ave., Chicago.
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SLOT MACHINES
OPERATORS! — Have 16 cigarette
vending machines that operate with
three nickels; also 18 package ma­
chines with a nickel and dime slot.
Price $3.00 each. Box 351 Madison
Sq. Sta., New York, N. Y.
3 JENNINGS MINT MACHINES—
New. Never out of case. Cost
$110.00 each. Will take $75.00 each,
and 1 M. Mints. 5 cents play. Can't
work them in my Arcade. 1 Piano,
good shape 44 note Peerless. New
$35.00 motor in same. Will take
$50.00. 1 Wurlitzer A -l shape, cost
$750.00 new— take $150.00, 44 note,
5 cents play, if you like to run it
that way.
VAN AULTS ARCADE
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FOR SALE — Perfume Vending Ma­
chines slightly used. Price $6.00
each. Fifty vials Perfume with each
machine. .T. R. Haskell, 147 Farring­
ton St., Wallaston, Mass.
LARGE COMPANY manufacturing
penny weighing machines and other
important products requires broad-
gauged sales manager with similar
experience. Capable of building na­
tional sales organization. Machine
possesses greater sales possibilities
than any other on the market
thru patented, printed weight tick­
et.
Exceptional opportunity for
right man. Write Box No. Die. c-o
the Automatic Age, giving particu­
lars as to experience, etc., also sal­
ary expected.
GOOD. PAYING vending machine
route for sale, also 25 A. B. T.
target gun machines almost new.
Cheap. A Messinger, 9041 S. Irving
Ave. Chicago, 111.
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