December 4, 1920.
Dealers who do not sell
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph and
records which they sell
them.
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records-
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
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.
Write for full particulars aboul advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
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NEW PHONOGRAPH STORES
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CHICAGO
Paragon Piano Plates
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
Get Your Plates From Oregon
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OREGON, ILL.
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
M anuf act ur er s
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Are.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
machine dejprtment can find nothing better than
the Fuehr & Stemmer.
Piano dealers who are
DETERLING
Many Extensions of Well Established Departments
Noted in News of the Week.
Thorwald Andresen has leased the vacant store in
the Pearl Hotel at 52 Greenbush street, Manistee,
Mich., for an exclusive phonograph shop
H. C. Bendler Co., of Sheboygan, Wis., has
opened a Brunswick Phonograph Shop under the
management of Frank Stroub, at Sheboygan Falls.
A new phonograph company will open a sales
room at 430 Main street, Peoria, 111., under the man-
agement of F. F. Fuller, field manager of the Great
Eastern Co.
Fred M. Kunkle, Allentown, Pa., has taken the
agency for the Columbia Grafonolas.
Edward Thomas, Pittsfield, Mass., has taken the
Berkshire county agency of the Phonolamp, manu-
factured by the Electric Phonograph Co., New
York.
Charles M. Borger, the Northampton, Pa., furni-
ture dealer, has procured the agency for the Bruns-
wick phonograph and records and carries a com-
plete stock of the same.
A. C. Skinner, talking machine dealer, Seabrooke,
Que., has moved to a new store at 46 Wellington
street, North.
The Bundy Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind., is en-
larging its phonograph department.
Ben Howell, talking machine dealer, Troy, Mo.,
has sold his business to Marlow Howell, his brother.
Weeks & Orr, Medford, Ore., has added the
Aeolian-Vocalion line to its talking machine stock.
George W. Williams is the new Aeolian-Vocalion
familiar with the Fuehr & Stemmer pianos need no
representative at Peckville, Pa.
assurance of this, and others may accept it as a bit
of useful advice.
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive for fine
goods. Write us.
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
TIPTON, IND.
Frank Hinckley, Bridgeport, Conn., has been
granted a patent for a contrivance relating to talk-
ing machines.
Supreme Phono Parts Co., Inc., New York, phono-
graphic accessories, at 145 West 45th street, has
assigned for the benefit of creditors to Milton M.
Sittenfield. William Phillips is president of the
company.
The Columbia Graphophone Company announced
a 10 per cent cut in wages, affecting 6,000 employes
and officers.
A "FUEHR & STEMMER'
Harold Wormser of New York City is now a
member of the sales force of the Reed-French
Piano Company at Portland, Ore.
Handsome Phonograph Which Is as Substantially
Miss Acevia Bennett, one of the best known
Fine as Its Looks Suggest.
Stradivara Company Promises to Double Its Output young ladies in the talking machine business, is
now with the McCormick Music Co. For six years
The illustration herewith is that of one of the
from This Time Forward.
Miss Bennett has been with the Eilers Music House.
handsome Fuehr & Stemmer phonographs. It is an
Plans have been put under way to increase the ca-
Miss Ethel Volk has been made manager of the
instrument that will withstand the most critical in-
spection. It fulfills in the best sense the slogan of pacity of the factory of the Stradivara Phonograph order department of the Cleveland Talking Machine
its makers which is "Hear That Tone!" For it Company at 33 and East Broadway, Portland, Ore. Co., Cleveland. O.
The Bush & Gerts Piano Co., Dallas, Tex., has
reproduces with accuracy the music of vocalists, full The output will be doubled, announces the general
bands or the speaking voice. It is one of the best manager, J. T. Thompson. An export department separated its piano from its talking machine stock.
will be developed for the manufacture of special The two lines now occupy different stores.
talking machines in the market.
Operatic records had an unusually big sale in
Furthermore, it is only fair to explain that the models designed for the Orient. The largely in-
accompanying illustration has appeared in this paper creased capacity will make the phonograph industry Houston, Tex., due to the recent visit there of the
San Carlo Opera Company.
as that of a phonograph manufactured by another one of the leading ones of the West.
The Fred P. Watson Company, Mt. Vernon, 111.,
The Stradivara Phonograph Co. was organized as
industry. Of course, there was an injustice in that,
for the Fuehr & Stemmer instruments have indi- a $5,000,000 corporation and in August of this year has built up a big trade in talking machine records
viduality and their designs are original. It is right, acquired the physical assets of the Pacific Phono- by continuous advertising in the local newspapers.
The Mutual Talking Machine Co., Inc., New
graph Co. A branch house in San Francisco looks
therefore, that this correction be made.
York, phonographic accessories, at 145 West 45th
Dealers who want a real leader in the talking after sales in California, Arizona and Nevada.
PORTLAND FACTORY ENLARGED
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