Automatic Age

Issue: 1934 June

June, 193 U
form, of the actual habitat conditions
under which animals actually live.
Taxidermy, lighting and the dioramic
art are shown here in their very fin­
est forms.
Service for Specialists
In addition to this education pro­
gram for the general public, the m u­
seum maintains unusually large stu­
dy collections for the specialist in any
field.
A library containing 95,000
scientific monographs
and
books
serves the visiting scientists.
Through the philanthropy of an­
other Chicagoan, the N. W . H arris
Public School Extension department
of the museum circulates 1,000 dif­
ferent “traveling exhibits” (taken
from the museum’s wealth) to school
children throughout the city and
state.
A U T O M A T IC A G E
Denmark Will Try Out
Stamp Vendors
Submitted by P a u l H. P e a r s o n
Assistant Trade Commissioner
According to local press reports
the Danish postal service has decided
to set up a number of automatic
stamp vending machines throughout
Denmark. I t is said th a t an order
for 20 trial machines has been placed
with local manufacturers, 10 with
Soren W istoft & Co., Copenhagen,
and 10 w ith Funch-Jensen, Aarhus.
Gets Five Years For
Machine Theft
Pocohontas, Iowa.— Elmer Lang
was sentenced to five years in the
Iowa state penitentiary at Fort M adi­
son for his part in the daylight rob­
bery of a coin machine from a local
pool hall. Fred Susmilch, at whose
home the stolen machine was found,
was taken to the state hospital at
Cherokee.
Lang pleaded guilty to a county at­
torney’s information charging him
with grand larceny. He had already
been sentenced to the state prison on
two other occasions.
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Delivery is to be made- sometime in
May. The final order will comprise
some 180 machines.
Both types of the trial machines
are painted red. They are so fixed
that the purchaser receives two 5 ore
stamps upon the insertion of a 10
ore coin. Most of the Danish postal
fees are divisable by five so with the
help of 5 ore stamps practically all
m ail can be properly stamped. Like­
wise the postal authorities were of
the opinion that the 10 ore coin is
the most practical.
It is planned to try out the first 20
machines over a six months period.
For Merchantmen and Iron Claws
get in touch with our nearest office.
We take in trade any used Exhibit Diggers
for new Merchantmen.
This Ought to Stop
Slugging
I f you drop a slug in a subway
turnstile or a coin machine and hear
a voice yelling “ Stop th ie f!” don’t be
surprised.
Or i f you drop a counterfeit coin
in a candy vending machine and get
h it over the head by a mallet, don’t
look around, for there’ll be nobody
there to fight with.
These two mechanical inventions
were described by Prof. A. C. Selet-
sky, of Case University, Cleveland,
O., who told the annual convention of
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers that his inventions would
eject counterfeits while they sounded
the alarm or rapped the slug owners
on the head.
The mallet machine can even be
regulated to pour a pail of water on
its victim when a counterfeit coin is
inserted in the slot, or will open a
trap door to dump him in a cavern.
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MEYER
WOLF
M A IN O F F IC E :
1212 S. 5th St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
B R A N C H O F F IC E S :
822 13th St., N. W ., Washington, D. C.
Rennert Hotel, Baltimore, Md.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE O PERA T O RS
OF A M E R IC A !
ORIOLE
C O IN M A C H IN E CO RP.
M ANUFACTURERS
AND
D IS T R IB U T O R S C O IN
Phone P laza 3620
17 South Charles Street
OPERATED
M A C H IN E S
Baltimore, Maryland
B ra n c h O ffice and W a re h o u s e : 943 “ I” S t., N . W ., W a s h in g to n , D . C.
E x c lu s iv e D is tr ib u to r s f o r Genco, In c ., G ou dey G um C o., D . G o ttlie b & Co.,
R o c k -O la M fg . Co., C a ille B ro th e rs Co., N o rth w e s te rn C o rp ., P ie rc e T o o l &
M fg . Co., B a lly M a n u fa c tu rin g Co.. D a v a l M a n u fa c tu rin g Co., A . B. T .
M a n u fa c tu rin g Co., C hicag o C oin M a c h in e E x c h a n g e “ A r is to c r a t L in e .”
To A ll O u r C ustom ers a n d F riends.
G e ntle m e n:
T he h e arty ind orse m e nt b y o ur m a n y custom ers an d frie n d s o f o ur e x pa n­
sion p ro gra m is indeed very ple asing to us. T his ex pansio n p olicy w ill
m a k e it possible to n o t only b e tte r serve you. b u t to giv e yo u th a t little
to uc h o f personal co nta ct fo r w h ic h w e h av e often hoped.
W e agree it is im p o rta n t to be as ne a r to o u r custom ers as w e possibly
can w ith a supply o f ail th e late st m achines, accessories, special services,
etc. T he recent d e m and for W o rld 's Series Is ju s t an o th e r in c id e n t w here
tho u sa nd s o f operators w ere d isap p o inte d in deliveries. T his s itu a tio n
offered a problem to the d is trib u to r w h ic h could n o t be definitely solved.
O R IO L E in " P O IN T O P S A C R IF IC E ” m e t t h a t s itu a tio n , a n d w e tru s t
t h a t you are s till o ur frie nd a n d custom er. W e believe th e tim e h as come
w h e n a ll w ill welcome these sacrifices i n th e cause o f fu rth e r s ta b ility ,
e ndurance a n d grow th.
I t is y o u r need th a t O R IO L E a im s to fill. W e w ill c o n tin u e our p olicy o f
fa ir a n d honest practice th ro u g h o u t o u r m a n y branches, a n d w e hope th a t
w ith in th e n e a r future, we w ill hav e a n office an d w arehouse ne a r you.
U n t il th e n le t us h e ar fro m you often, as it is indeed a pleasure to
serve you.
W is h in g yo u continued success, w e are
Y o u rs very sincerely,
O R IO L E C O IN M A C H IN E C O R P O R A T IO N
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E. V. RO SS
“ SO U T H ’S L A R G E S T D IS T R IB U T O R ”
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A U T O M A T IC A G E
June, 1934
D. Robbins Has New
Premium Plan
turn hands them over to the opera­
tor. On his next call the operator de­
livers the premium desired.
To stimulate the sale of gum
through the Stick Gum Vendor which
they have recently placed on the
market, D. Robbins & Company is
now utilizing the gum wrappers in a
novel premium redemption plan.
Printed slips showing two premium
items, adequately described and the
number of wrappers necessary to re­
deem them are issued to the operator
free of charge. These slips are in ­
serted on the face of the machine and
are therefore easily seen by the pur­
chasers. When a sufficient number
of wrappers have been saved they are
left w ith the location owner, who in
As the wrappers are not mailed, it
can be readily seen that an im portant
feature in the Robbins’ plan is the
elimination of the cost of m ailing the
premiums. In many plans this m ail­
ing cost is sometimes greater than
the value of the premium itself and
as the customer has to pay this cost,
the effectiveness of the plan is dim­
inished.
New slips are issued each month
featuring a new set of items, which
include cameras, watches, ping pong
sets, airplanes, cigarette lighters, etc.,
and the purchaser is given a wide va­
riety of premiums to select from.
A Contact with Us-
The following news item appeared
in a Buffalo, N. Y. newspaper:
Repeal of the 18th amendment ef­
fected many changes in business and
keen analysts hastened to note them.
But here is a new one:
The coin-operated phonograph busi­
ness has soared tremendously since
repeal.
In fact, so great are the demands
from restaurants, hotels, clubs, tav­
erns, cafes, and the like that the R u ­
dolph W urlitzer M anufacturing com­
pany, which fabricates them at M ar­
tinsville, cannot put them out fast
enough to fill the orders.
This was the disclosure of Homer
E. Capehart, general sales manager.
insures im m e d ia t e deliveries on
CO N T A CT and all other new
amusement machines.
Sales of the automatic phonographs
are undoubtedly abetted by improv­
ing business conditions, but repeal is
approximately 75 per cent responsi­
ble for the enormous increase, he
said. The sales are even better than
they were in 1928-9, he pointed out,
although the price of the instruments
is not as high.
Southern Operators!
W e c a r r y c o m p le te
stocks of all new and
used machines, venders,
s u p p lie s , e tc . State
your needs.
Birmingham
Vending Co.
1902 E ig h th A ve .
B IR M IN G H A M , A L A .
HARRIS “SCOOPS” AGAIN
Wurlitzer Sales Up
500 Per Gent
!
The phonographs contain a number
of records. Insertion of any amount
of nickels, from one to 20, and selec­
tion of the records the depositor de­
sires played is all that is necessary.
From then on, until the nickels are
used, the phonograph plays continu­
ously and automatically.
The demand for radios and other
musical instruments also has jumped
since repeal, since establishments can
use them instead of employing orches­
tras and even make the patrons pay
for the music, Mr. Capehart asserted.
88— Genuine “Parker” $4.50 D uo­
fold Model Pen and Pencil Set
But the automatic phonograph busi­
ness has increased from nothing to
its present state of thousands of or­
ders.
B e a u tifu l P e a rl C o lo rs
PER SET
PEN O N L Y
$1.50
$1.00
Incidentally, said Mr. Capehart,
the W urlitzer company is experienc­
ing business 500 per cent greater
than that of the first h a lf of March,
1933.
“M A T C H - K IN G ”
6— Ingraham W rist W atch
L in k
o r L e a th e r S tra p s
EACH
$1.85
N ic k e l an d b e a u tifu l la cq u e re d ,
g e n u in e $1.00 m odel M a tc h - K in g
L ig h te rs . P acked one dozen to
d o lla r d is p la y box. W h ile 5,000
la sts.
EACH 1 2 W c
W R IT E F O R O U R N E W C O M P L E T E C A T A L O G
Operators - W rite us
about the new
“X-CAVATOR”
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The Lowest Priced Electric
Digger Ever Offered
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