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November 20, 1920.
has been made manager of the small goods depart-
ment of the company.
H. R. Winsch, Pennsburg, Pa., held the formal
opening of his phonograph store, at 228 Main street,
East Greenville, last week.
Mather Bros., New Castle, Pa., have opened a
new talking machine department as an addition to
their jewelery establishment.
Bert Allen has opened a talking machine store in
De Witt, la.
The C. A. Dorney Co., a furniture house in Allen-
town, Pa., has added a talking machine department.
The Atherton-Peoples Furniture Co., Haverhill,
Mass., has added a talking machine department.
A new agency for the Mandell phonograph has
been established with the Maxwell Furniture Co.,
Washington, D. C.
John J. Giftord has bought the talking machine
department of the Office Supply Co., Charlotte, N. C.
Burley & Biesinger, 332 West Ferry street, Buffalo,
N. Y., was opened recently.
PHONOGRAPH INCORPORATIONS
Growth of Trade and Industry Is Shown By
Newcomers in Field-
United Phonograph Stores, Inc., New York City;
$5,100,000.
Increase in capital, Columbia Graphophone Co.,
from $165,000,000 to $315,000,000, was announced last
week.
United Phonograph Stores Co., Wilmington,
Del.; manufacture of talking machines; capital,
$5,000,000.
The Queens Borough Cabinet Co., Brooklyn, N.
Y., capital $10,000. A. Saidel, T. Mororano and D.
Freiberger.
Singer Talking Machine Co., Milwaukee, Wis.,
$150,000. C. A. Kitts.
United Phonograph Stores, New York; manufac-
ture; capital, $5,000,000; incorporators, Fred. A.
Hiischfield, Joseph D. Englesber, New York; Adolph
O. Moss, Brooklyn.
Arion Record Import, Philadelphia; to buy, sell,
import and export and generally trade and deal in
talking machines, phonographs and talking machine
records.
Solotone Phonograph Co., Philadelphia., $200,000.
F. R. Hansell, J. Vernon Pimm, E. M. MacFarland,
Philadelphia.
Elwood Talking Machine Co., Elwood, Ind., $10,-
000. George Craycroft and Frank Kaiser.
Phonograph Products Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y.,
$30,000. L. T. Lombra, C. J. Lally, G. Van Zandt,
50 Court street, Brooklyn.
PHONOGRAPHS IN PORTLAND, ORE.
The phonograph business is picking up all over
town. One of the favorite machines at present is
the Brunswick at $226. A great many of these ma-
chines have been sold this month by the Wiley B.
Allen Co. The ^Eolian-Vocalion is being adver-
tised so liberally by the Meier & Frank Company
that a great deal of attention has been called to
the superior merits of this instrument and sales are
very good. Victors are coming in better than for a
long time and dealers are gratified to again have
the privilege of exhibiting full stocks of this favorite
talking machine. The Edison, the Cheney, the
Pathe, the Columbia, which is also being extensively
advertised, are all selling better than for several
months.
IMPROVE PHONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
Three new music booths have been installed across
the front of the Bandy Furniture Company's store,
Evansville, Ind., to accommodate patrons of the
talking machine department. In order to do this
it was necessary to remodel the front part of the
store. The front of the building has also been
painted and improved. According 1 to Manager Ed-
ward McGinnes the changes affect several depart-
ments as a result of the improvements and will
greatly assist the company in handling its business.
PRICES IN CHINA.
Trade Commissioner Lynn W. Meekings reports
the establishment in Pekin, China, of an agency for
an American phonograph company. Of the initial
shipments of ten machines, seven have been sold.
The retail price of these instruments, which are of
the cabinet type, about four and a half feet high, is
$195 Mexican for customers having charge accounts
and $175 Mexican for cash payments.
EDISON IN CANADA.
The Canadian Edison Phonograph, Ltd., has pur-
chased a factory building at St. Thomas, Ontario,
and will equip it as a phonograph factory. The plant
is now occupied by the St. Thomas Cabinets, Ltd.
Leo W. Freed is the new manager of the talking
machine department of Beal & McCarthy, Brockton,
Mass.
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SHEET MUSIC TRADE NOTES
Items from Here and There Show the Warm Inter-
est in the Goods.
Adrian-Reece, Inc., San Francisco jobbers of
music, gave a dinner and theater party to its em-
ployes last week:
Miss Florence Gardie, the new manager of the
sheet music department of the Oregon Eilers Music
House, Portland, was previously connected with a
' similar department with the Woolworth stores.
Window displays are continuously used by E. F.
Droop & Sons Co., Washington, D. C, to call atten-
tion to special numbers in the sheet music depart-
ment.
William Marconi's guests on a yacht in the Bay
of Naples recently danced to music supplied by wire-
less from London.
Vincent M. Sherwood, eastern manager of the Mc-
Kinley Music Co., returned to New York last week
after a two weeks' visit to the home office in Chi-
cago.
PUBLISHING ON THE FARM
Corinthian Music Company, Hadley, 111., Is Located
Amid Bucolic Sights and Sounds.
Hermes Zimmerman, head of the Corinthian Music
Company, Hadley, 111., divides his time between the
composition of songs to please the ear of people who
appreciate tunefulness and concocting menus for his
Duroc-Jersey hogs, which have critical palates. Mr.
Zimmerman is the man who established a music pub-
lishing house on a farm. He has made a success of
it, too.
After a trip to the East, where he learned of the
success of the Hershey chocolates, with the office on
the farm, and also of the Jones sausage with offices
on the farm in Wisconsin, he decided to maintain
his office at Hadley, 111., on the farm.
This farm music firm, the Corinthian Music Com-
pany, has a number of good songs for future publi-
cation, but is proudest of its first hit, "America! First
and Forever!" which is recommended for use in
public schools; for Americanization work and is be-
ing used on programs for an opening or closing num-
ber.
Before much time was spent on their now famous
song hit, "America! First and Forever!" a copy was
taken to a foreign country and the critic who played it
declared, "The music is simply grand but the words
give too much praise to America." Since then this
A National Song Hit
That finds its way into the Hearts of the
People is
"AMERICA! FIRST and FOREVER"
"Our Greatest Song of Praise"
Song Leaders and Supervisors of Music Laud
Its Power to Strengthen Americanism.
It is full of pep. 18 cents. Order Now.
Corinthian Music Co.
Hadley, Illinois
Copies may be secured thro' Lyon & Healy, Ch'cago, and
Plaza Music Co., New York.
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number has been called "America's Greatest Song
Praise," and the people love it for its words as well
as music.
This farmer-composer-publisher is also a member
of the Illinois Agricultural Association and of the
Farm Bureau Federation and specializes in Duroc-
Jersey hogs for farm activity. Many great hits in
music have been written on the farm, also much of
the best literature, but as far as is known the
Corinthian Music Company is the only firm with a
great hit to its credit and with its office "on the
farm."
BIG ORDERS FOR BOOKS.
Platt P. Gibbs, Chicago publisher, says business is
good. He has just received an order for one hun-
dred Golden Anthems for the use of the choir in the
Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City, Utah. He has
had a good call for Dr. Emerson's class book. Dr.
Emerson, of Boston, who died some time ago, will be
remembered as a well known teacher and author.
Mr. Gibbs has also had big orders for song books
from Gap, Pa., and from Alchua, Fla.
BUSY AT LYON & HEALY'S.
Manager Delaney, of the sheet music department
of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, says that trade has been
very active for several days past. It seems that
sheet music sells much faster as soon as cold weather
sets in, and it has been very wintry for the last week
or ten days in Chicago. The variety carried in the
sheet music department of Lyon & Healy's is im-
mense, and the detail of serving all classes of cus-
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