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TALKING
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G. W. Lawrence, 112 W. Main street, Urbana, I!!.,
is having a closing-out sale of furniture and rugs.
The firm will have an exclusive up-to-date music
house.
Grover W. Sims & Son, Huntingburg, lnd., ager.ts
for the Edison, have purchased the music depart-
ment of J. E. Steinkamp at Jasper, la. The firm will
also make changes in the business in Huntingburg.
Margaret Romaine, American soprano opera star,
ir.okes her first four records for Columbia this
month. They are the "Musetta Waltz," "Rondo Ga-
votte," "Lonesome, That's All," "A Little Bit o'
Honey."
A fire in Atlanta, Ga., last week came nep.r
putting the entire three-story building in the rear
of 93 North Prior street. The flames spread rapidly
to the second floor, the storage room for the Ray-
mond's Graphophone Company.
The Talking Machine Dealers" Association of
California gave a banquet March 30.
Lester Schroeder is manager of the talking ma-
chine department of the Meier & Frank Co., Port-
land, Ore.
William Maxwell, vice-president, of Thos. E. Edi-
son, Inc., outlined the sales promotion plans of the
company for 1920 at a dealers' conference for the
St. Louis zone held recently at the Hotel Statler,
St. Louis.
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Charles B. Lang has been appointed assistant
manager of the Indianapolis branch of the Colum-
bia Graphophone Co. He was formerly with the
Sterling Products Co.
The Sport Mart, Washington, D. C, will open a
branch in the Bond Building, Fourteenth street
and New York avenue, where the full Columbia
line will be carried.
The monthly meetings of the Cleveland Talking
Machine Dealers' Association are social and busi-
ness events that always draw a big attendance. The
association includes quite a number of dealers in
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the vicrn.iiy whose interests are similar to those
of the Cleveland trade.
Cohen & Hughes, Victor jobbers in Baltimore,
Md., entertained visiting dealers at a buffet lunch- Activity of the Talking Machine Trade Well Ex-
eon recently on the occasion of the second meet-
pressed in Big Number of Openings.
ing of Victor retailers in the company's warerooms.
The New England Piano & Phonograph Co., Bos-
The Pathe line has been added to the presenta-
ton, has opened a branch at 205 Hanover street.
tions of the National Furniture Co., Seventh and H
The Donola is the name of a talking machine streets, Washington, D. C.
assembled and sold by the John McDonnell Music
The K. C. Sexton Co., Washington, D. C, has
Co., Kansas City, Mo.
rormally opened its remodeled building at 631 Penn-
Christy J. Smith of Bellefonte, Pa., has assumed
sylvania avenue.
the management of the Music Shop there. Frank
The talking machine department of Joseph J. Camp-
J. Vierra has severed his connection with the firm.
Klein's Music Store, Cheyenne, Wyo., has added bell, Everett, Mass., has been completely remodeled
another room to its talking machine department and transformed into an up-to-date wareroom.
which is used for demonstration purposes.
H. A. Beach, manager of the traveling department
A full line of Pathe machines and records have of the Victor company, made the principal address
been added by the Duff Piano Co., Elizabeth City, at the recent meeting of the Tri-State Victor Deal-
N. C, to its offerings in a new branch at Ports- ers' Association in St. Louis.
mouth. Va.
Newton I. Hancock opened a new store in Pasa-
The Wiley B. Allen Co., Los Angeles, Calif., has dena, Calif., this week.
extended its talking machine department to take in
The New England Piano & Phonograph Co.
the space formerly occupied by the Lindsay music
opened
a branch in Manchester, N. H., recently.
Co., sheet music dealers.
The branch is known as the Manchester Music Co.
Drake L. Moninger, Alliance, O., is a pioneer in
the talking machine trade in that city.
RUMORS IN BOSTON.
John Z. Kelly, who opened in the music business
Columbia Graphophone came into prominence in
as a piano dealer, is now exclusively in the talking
Boston financial circles last week on the story that
machine business.
there is talk of a combination of this company and
The Emerson Phonograph Co. has leased a floor
at 317 South Wabash avenue, Chicago, as a whole- its largest competitor, the Victor Company. The
rumor behind the story of combination was that the
tale branch.
Victor Company is having trouble getting the ma-
terials with which to make its records, and that as
BANKRUPT F I L E S SCHEDULES.
Columbia has just perfected a new process it is in
Bliss Reproducer, Inc., manufacturers of phono-
a position to dictate to its rival. The Boston Globe
graph parts, 80 Fifth Ave., New York, has filed
schedules in bankruptcy with liabilities of $49,441; stated that there also are rumors that a large cash
represented by wages, $362; secured claims, $3,983; dividend on Columbia is impending.
unsecured claims, $17,478; notes and bills. $27,618,
NEW ASSISTANT MANAGER.
and assets of $109,828, consisting of cash on hand,
$81; stock, $17,897; machinery, tools, etc., $3,181;
A. F. Baer has resigned as assistant manager of
patents, etc., $24,866; accounts' due, $4,774 and $9,- the Chicago branch of the Columbia Graphophone
007; unliquidated claims, $50,000, and deposits of
Co. to join the Roemer Manufacturing Co., manu-
money in bank, $298. Credit & Finance Co. is a facturer of talking machine motors. Mr. Baer has
secured creditor for $3,983. Among those who are been succeeded by N. B.- Smith, formerly assistant
unsecured are John D. Evans, $17,000; Columbia
manager of the Cincinnati wholesale branch of the
Trust Co., $5,000; Titan Auto Tool Co.. $4,317, and
Columbia.
Standard Metal Mfg. Co., $3,991.
NEW PHONOGRAPH STORES
T H E BALTIMORE ASSOCIATION.
A new set of officers will be elected at the annual
•meeting of the Music Dealers' Association of Bal-
timore, which will be held at an early date in May.
At the next monthly meeting of the association an
address will be delivered by J. Thomas Lyons, of
the advertising department of the Baltimore Sun,
who is famed among business men as a fascinating
speaker. President C. B. Noon of the association
savs he is assured of a big attendance.
SONORA IN COLUMBUS.
The Sonora Phonograph Company wil soon build
an assembling plant in Columbus, O., adjacant to the
Orinoco Furniture Company, where cabinets for
the company are made. The output of the company
will then be assembled and distributed from that city.
George R. Read & Co. and Charles B. Walker,
New York, have leased to the Sonora Phonograph
Corporation four floors of 15 Warren street for a
long- term.
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