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The Autom atic Age
THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE OF THE VENDING MACHINE
INDUSTRY
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
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0. C. L IG H T N E R , President
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There Will Be
Two Features Next Year
at the convention and exposi
tion in Chicago number one of which i s : The A U T O M A T IC A G E
will give a trophy fo r the best machine of any kind shown fo r the
first time at the convention. The choice will be made through a
poll taken at the convention from among the operators present.
It would have been hard to have made a decision of the best
machine during the N ew York convention. A s they say, a good
little man can never lick a good heavy man, and for that reason
the Chester-Pollard Football machine m ight be given .the trophy
ju st because it was a large machine. However, an equally clever
machine was the Alb Race Horse ball gum machine. These two
machines really created a sensation.
The ten-cent photograph
machine was shown one day during the convention, but that ma
chine has hardly been worked out on as practical a basis as the
other two machines.
In making a decision one of the principal things to be considered
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