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PRESTO
July 18, 1925.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
(British Australian Wool Realization Association),
has formulated a new scheme for stabilization of the
market, which involves the formation of a voluntary
Surprising Growth in Favor for All Makes, Due to mutual or co-operative association to take over the
remainder of the clip by appraisement methods. It
Portable Phonograph Business.
is suggested that the capitalization be £50,000,000
The City of Cleveland, O., placed an order with and that the Australian Government be asked to
the Robert L. White Music Co., in that city, last guarantee the association until sufficient capital is
week for twenty-five portable Brunswick phono- subscribed. Meetings are being held for further
graphs. These machines are intended for use in the discussion of the plan.
twenty-five public playgrounds maintained by the
city. It is only one instance of the big and growing
THE C. G. CONN PICNIC.
favor for phonographs, especially those of the porta-
Band music played on Conn instruments by Conn
ble kind.
employees will be a strong feature of the annual
The sale of phonograph records in Cleveland of
picnic of C. G. Conn, Ltd., Elkhart, Ind., which will
different makes is proving the greatest surprise the take place at Playland Park, South Bend, Ind., Aug-
trade has had for some time. The demand for rec- ust 8. A fine program of recreational and athletic
ords at present is approximately as heavy nearly as events closing with dancing in the evening has been
at Christmas time, and this stimulus is considered prepared.
due principally to the large amount of portable ma-
chines that are being sold.
FEATURING BAND GOODS.
An entire balcony is devoted to band and orches-
tra instruments in the new Stockton, Calif., store of
Sherman, Clay & Co. The instruments are attrac-
tively arranged about the walls of the room in glass
In Reply to Experimenting Piano Man, Veneers cases against a black felt background, illuminated
Gives Satisfactory Walnut Stain Method.
by an ingenious lighting system. George V. Gadsby
A piano man with a staining problem gets a satis- is manager of the department.
factory answer to his plan from Veneers. The cor-
BIG UKE CLASS IN DENVER.
respondent had trouble getting a good tint on gum
Miss Ann Ellington, of Kansas City, Mo., who is
posts to match walnut, the results always coming
through with a greenish tinge. The reply printed in in charge of the health department of the Y. W.
C. A., Denver, Colo., is teaching the girls how to
Veneers was as follows:
"I have gone pretty thoroughly into your problem play the ukulele. Miss Ellington says that it is easy
and am returning the samples you sent, with the to learn and a class of thirty has taken her word
result of our experiments. We must not overlook for it.
the fact that it is absolutely impossible to make plain
DEALERS ARE ACTIVE.
gum look like figured walnut. Plain gum has the
New Harmony, Ind., music dealers are interested
same shade of color, no matter from what angle it is
viewed, while figured walnut changes slightly when in the plan to reorganize the New Harmony Band.
viewed in different lights and from different angles. Prof. Lichtenberger plans to have a band of at least
We realized that when we received your samples, twenty members—eleven being already signed. Some
because we had previously done a good deal of of the old band men will take a part.
experimenting along the same line, but your query
induced us to try once more, and several good fin-
ishes were put on the job. The finish on the sample
which we are returning was made with 1 oz. of wal-
nut crystals dissolved in 3 quarts hot water.
"In preparing the stain, put the walnut crystals in
the vessel and pour on the water, stirring the while
and until completely dissolved. Do not use boiling
water; about 175 degrees is hot enough.
"These samples were not filled. The stain was
Embody Five Cardinal Features;
applied with a brush in the ordinary way. Your
method of finishing with fast lac ought to give you as
DURABILITY
good results with the above stain formula as can be
obtained by any method. If you have difficulty get-
SIMPLICITY
ting the correct shade, use a pale orange shellac or
a mixture of orange and white shellac for the first-
ACCESSIBILITY
coater.—L. C. Benton.
CLEVELAND'S BIG RECORD SALES
SOLVES STAINING PROBLEM
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
P
RADIO MANUFACTURERS MEET.
The Radio Manufacturers' Association met last
week at the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. The
sessions continued throughout Friday and Saturday.
Herbert H. Frost presided. Steps were taken to
establish an eastern division of the association. A
Pacific coast division also will be established. A. C.
Stewart, president of the recently organized Radio
Dealers' Association of America, addressed the man-
ufacturers on the subject of honest merchandising
and explained to them how the association was try-
ing to rid the trade of the dishonest advertiser and
the retailer who slashed prices below the cost of
making the goods.
WOOL SALES RESUMED.
Wool sales were resumed in Australia on July 13,
according to cable advices from Trade Commis-
sioner E. G. Babbitt, Melbourne. On that date
approximately 120,000 bales of wool were offered.
Sir John Higgins, former chairman of BAWRA
e e r 1 e s s
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