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practically been “ asleep” on it for
years. However today they realize
that the Chinese demand the best. In
fact some of the super-feature pic-
turs are shown in Shanghai long be-
1 fore they reach Broadway, New
York, or Randolph Street, Chicago.
Not only in Shanghai, but also in
the cities of Tientsin, Peking, Teing-
tao, Canton, Macao, Hankow and
Harbin, high class theaters catering
to foreign trade, and the better class
o f Chinese. The admission price is
by no means low—in fact Gold $1.00.
In reducing this to the exchange in
Chinese money or Mexican money
such as is commonly used there it
can be imagined what this amounts
to.
Thieves Haul
Coin Machines
Away in Auto
Danville, 111.— Thieves who looted
the Willie Minestrainer cigar store,
at Westville, near here recently, are
believed to have been locked in the
store when t was closed for the night.
They are also believed to have used
a motor car in removing the goods.
'They stole two slot machines. Just
how much money the machines con
tained is not known.
About $25.00 in cash was taken
from the cash register.
Several
boxes of cigars, cigarettes, pipes,
smoking tobacco and other articles
also were taken.
In China the razor is used not for
the face but for cutting th© hair, the
Chinese being beardless.
Neither
soap nor lather is used but the China
man’s head, after a hair cut, looks
as though it had been sandpapered
and polished.
Of the twenty-two million dolls
made in the United States during
1926, only about one million were
blonds.
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Makes Bow
to Readers
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take pleasure in introducing the
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pany of Los Angeles, California, to
our host of readers. They manufac
ture the “ Peerless” ball gum machine
which embodies many novel and dis
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optional, making it not only durable
but one of the most ornamental ma
chines on the market. It possesses
many mechanical features which
stamp it with the hall-mark of orig
inality and practicability and we feel
confident it will meet with great
favor among the operators through
out the country.
Vending Machine
Bill Enacted
Nashville, Tenn. — Persons acci
dentally inserting slugs of lead, but
tons, hat checkss and the like into
gas meters or telephones or even
into chewing gum machines may be
embarrassed to find themselves hav
ing a fine of $100 to $500 on a mis
demeanor charge, following the pas
sage in the house of representatives
recently of a bill introduced by Mr-
Haynes. Objection was registered by
Mr. Johnson that “ mere kids” should
not be penalized so severely for such
inadvertencies, but the bill found
favor in the eyes of the rural mem
bers, who have no gas meter and few
telephones and passed final reading
by a vote of 59 ayes, 20 noes, si*
present and not voting.
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