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FRESTO
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEKEST
Trade Happenings of More or Less Importance
Briefly Set Down in Type.
A. P. Knox is manager of the Masterpiece Phono-
graph Co's store, opened recently at 428 Washing-
ton street, Portland, Ore.
The Pathe phonograph line is now shown to good
advantage in the Pathe warerooms of M. Welte &
Sons, New York.
The Phonograph Shop was opened recently in the
Broadway Building, Portland, Ore. W. S. Hender-
son is manager.
The Felsten Phonograph Co., Portland, Ore., has
added the'Mandel Phonograph to its line.
Mayer & Cof, Washington, D. C, a large depart-
ment sttfre,.; has opened a Grafonola department.
The new department is provided with all the aids
to pleasant shopping and is beautifully furnished
and decorated.
Fred Davidson has opened a talking machine
store in Riverside, Calif. He is featuring the Gen-
nett records in a very clever way.
The Latono Music Co., Decatur, 111., distributors
of talking machines, is now occupying the store at
357 North Main street.
The Woodward & Lotnop department store,
Washington, D. C, has plans to double the' dimen-
January 15, 1920.
sions of its talking machine department within the
next few months. This will mean an increase of
sales facilities and a further improvement of an
already excellent service.
Comfort, utility and beauty are all combined in
Fred Gardner's Temple of Music, 379 Essex street,
Lawrence, Mass., which was opened recently.
Among the facilities are five sound-proof demon-
stration booths.
' The Gray & Dudley Company, Nashville, Term.,
is distributor for the Pathe throughout the South.
The Phonograph Co., representing the Edison line
in Cincinnati, O., has leased the second and third
floors at 314 and 316 West Fourth street, subject to
a rental of $6,000 per annum. The floors measure
36 x 180 feet.
W. C. Patch, manager, announces the opening of
Everett salesrooms at 141 Grove avenue, Elgin, 111.,
with a complete line of Everett phonographs.
"I have opened a new store at 1556 Broadway
with a full line of Starr phonographs, pianos and
players, Widdicomb phonographs, and Gennett
records," announces Peter Gadomski at Lorain, O.
The Valuphone, a new talking machine, is fea-
tured by T. P. Culley & Son, Washington, D. C.
The store is a well-located one at 1327 G street.
ENTHUSIASTIC PHONOGRAPH DEALER
THE WONDERFUL
"FAIRY" Phonograph Lamp
Truly a Work of Art. Scientifically Constructed
Sales Unprecedented. Secure Agency Now.
T h e greatest
practical nov-
elty offered to
the Phonograph
trade—
The
"FAIRY"
*J. Phonograph
F
Lamp
"looks" and
" s p e a k s" for
itself. In ap-
pearance luxur-
ious, it achieves
its g r e a t e s t
triumph in its
tone.
A newly pat-
ented s o u n d
amplifying
chamber, radi-
cally differing
from the con-
ventional de-
signs, gives a
true m e l l o w
tone of volume
equalling' that
of most ex-
pensive instru-
ments.
Electrically operated and equipped with a specially
designed invisible switch, regulator and tone modifier.
Let \iS tell how sales of the "FAIRY" have re-
quired our maximum output ever since its appear-
ance in 1918.
ENDLESS-GRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
4200-02 West Adams Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
"
A. F. PROFANT.
MRS. A. F. PROFANT.
While O. F. Profant is a druggist and a good,
big one—the Park Front Pharmacy, 420 N. Parkside
avenue, Chicago—he is also an enthusiastic phono-
graph dealer. His sales, small in the beginning,
have now reached such magnitude that it is almost
a case, with him where "the tail is wagging the
dog."
Mr. Profant is a hard worker for more and more
music business, and he is adding records, music
rolls, sheet music, and is contemplating the ad-
dition of playerpianos. He knows he can sell them
because his customers are calling for them.
There's a reason for Mr. Profant's success as a
music dealer aside from his personal ambition and
energy. It is an accepted fact that everywhere
woman and music are closely allied. Mr. Profant
has an able assistant in his charming "better half"
who agreed to assist in making their phonograph
department a success. Mrs. Profant has kept her
word and has become an expert phonograph sales-
woman.
Again, for success and profit, Mr. Profant car-
ries his own paper, and a prospect never gets away.
His leaders are the Pathe and the Kimball, but in
connection with other standard phonographs.
In a short time Mr. Profant expects to add more
space to his already large store, devoted entirely
to music and musical instruments.
PRESTO
Dealers who do not sell
Buyers' Guide
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph and
records which they sell
them.
Guesswork Won't Do"
—The ACME allows test with
the drag of the needle throughout
the length of the
record.
Indispensable to
dealers and salesmen
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
Ike
Acme Speed Indicator
—is precision made.
—clears the tone arm.
—1 o c a t e s
motor
troubles.
—registers 78 and 80
revolutions.
It is a reliable book of ref-
erence in determining
the
origin, make and standing of
any instrument. The Presto
Buyers' Guide is filled with
the information which adds
Made by
The Acme Engineering & Mfg. Co.
strength
1622 Fulton St.
statement and removes all
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CHICAGO
to
a
salesman's
doubt of his sensible claims
for the goods he sells.
PATENTS
CORRESPONDENCE J O H N
A
SAUL
PCNDALL BLDG., WASHINGTON, O. C.
Everybody's Talking About It!
Positively no other is like it—it has set a new
standard.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER CAN GET THEM
Packed 4 in a box to retail at 10c; 100 boxes in a
display carton costs the dealer $6.00 net.
TRADE
MARKS
Write for full particulars about advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, ETC.
SOLICITED
One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records—
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
Price 50 Cents
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
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CHICAGO
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