Automatic Age

Issue: 1939 October

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOMATIC AGE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 16
O C T O B E R , 1939
No. 3
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS WITH THE EDITOR---------- 13
TEN YEARS AGO IN THE COIN MACHINE
INDUSTRY --------- ----------- ---------14
O. C. LIGHTNER
President
SEE RECORD BREAKING SHOW
CMI Boasts 80 Members; Gilmore and
Committees Busy Arranging 1940 Show--------16
SHOP AND SHOWROOM
A News Review of The New Coin
Machine Products --------- ----------- 18-19
THE TWO CENT TAX ON CIGARETTES IN
WISCONSIN AND ITS EFFECT ON THE OPERATOR
By Mack H. Postel ----------------- -----29
CARROLL E. VETTERICK
Editor—Adv. Director
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Better Salesmanship Vital to Future
Operating Success, Says Jack Kelner----------33
CIGARETTE SMOKE RINGS
By James Cherry ------ --------- ------35
MARTIN J. MRAZ
Ass’t. Editor
THE LEGAL OUTLOOK__________________________39
ON THE RECORD---------- -------------- 60
FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY____________________ ____72
NEW PATENTS
By Ken C. Shyvers ----- --------------- —74
Staff Contributors:
ODD FACTS—UNUSUAL EVENTS ________________-86
JOHN GOODBODY
CLASSIFIED COIN MACHINE DIRECTORY______ 93-96
KEN SHYVERS
CLASSIFIED COIN MACHINE EXCHANGE______ 97-98
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AUTOMATIC AGE
October, 1939
IN D E X TO AD V ERT ISERS
OCTOBER, 1939
A
R
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Ace Cigarette Service Co...............
Advance Machine Co........................
American Chewing Products Corp.
Art Cabinet Sales Co.
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Autom atic Games ............................
90
71
69
17
89
B
Illinois Lock Co.................................
Independent Lock Co........................
International Mutoscope Reel Co. .
87
26
63
J
Reliable Vending Machine Co. . . . 34
Robbins & Co., D............. 59, 76, 81, 85
Rock-OIa Mfg. Corp..........................
....In s id e Front, Inside Back Cover
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Jennings & Co., O. D ....................... 4-5
Badger Novelty Co...........................
Bally Mfg. Co......................................
Brewer & Sons, Chas. A .................
64
23
83
K
Kasco ...................................................
c
85
L
Chicago Lock Co...............................
22
Cinematone Corp.................................
60
Columbus Vending Co.........Back Cover
D
Oalkin Co., A ......................................
79
Liberty Mfg. Co.................................
M
N
59
69
30
20
G
Globe Printing Co...............................
Gottlieb & Co., D ...............................
Grandbois Co., U. G .........................
77
H
Hanson Scale Co...............................6,
Harlich Mfg. Co................................
National Coin Machine Exch.........
National Dispenser Co......................
Norris Mfg. Co...................................
Northwestern Corp............................
Nut Packers Supply Co., Inc.........
P
78
32
37
82
Mfg. Co............................... .. 28
Coin Machine Co., Inc. . 79
Products .............................. 35
Products Co....................... .. 74
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Universal Vendors Corp..................
Monarch Coin Machine Co.............
Moseley Vending Machine Exch. .
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Eastern Autom atic Mdse. Co.........
Ellman & Zuckerman ....................
Evans & Co., H. C ...........................
Exhibit Supply Co.............................
77
Shipman
Simmons
Superior
Supreme
Pan Confections ...............................
Peanut Specialty Co..........................
Penny King System ........................
Pittle, Charles ..................................
Polk & Co., R. L ...............................
Portable Elevator Mfg. Co.............
31
56
3
V
Vending Machine Co........................
Victor Vending Co...........................21,
84 Viking Specialty Co..........................
73 Vi-Ped-Ex Corporation ..................
80
38
W
74
36
39
66
81
Wertheimer, Henry .......................... 69
Wilcox Mfg. Co., W . W ...............70, 88
25 Woodstock Typewriter Co............... 78
70 W urlitzer Co., Rudolph ...............41-57
78
82
X
79
59
X. L. Coin Machine Co.................... 27
ALL SIGNS POINT TO TREMENDOUS
GAINS IN COIN MACHINE VOLUME!
Manufacturers and distributors of coin machines are reporting
greatly stimulated demands for new equipment. Stocks of used
machines are rapidly being depleted. These are not rumors, but
facts! AUTOMATIC AGE advertisers COVER THE FIELD
with one low advertising cost. This is not theory— It’s a fact I
November Issue Closes Friday , October 20th!
AUTOMATIC AGE
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