October 10, 1925.
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QUARTER OFA CENTURY
Spokane Music Merchant Encounters Many
Adventures on His Return from Trade
Convention at Drake Hotel, Chicago.
Robt. B. Oslund, Spokane, Wash., music merchant,
has written the story of his exciting automobile trip
from Toledo, O., to his home city.' He took posses-
sion of his new car in the Ohio city and tried it
out in the streets, but had to hold it down to ten
miles an hour. His thrills, however, began there.
"While driving in different parts of the city, six
different attempts were made to hold me up. After
the sixth attempt I decided here is where I get car-
tridges for my gun, which I did and loading all six
chambers placed the gun in the seat beside me," Mr.
Oslund writes. "The man who sold me the cartridges
advised me if I could handle two guns at a time, that
I should do so as I would need them before I was
through, when they were trying to hold people up
right and left in broad day light."
The seventh thrill came as he journeyed towards
Chicago that evening. This is how:
"Leaving that afternoon for Chicago I continued
to drive well into the night. In going down quite a
steep grade I came to a railroad crossing at which
I stopped to look and listen. Not hearing anything I
started on my way still going down grade with my
car in second speed. As the front wheels were well
over the first rails, to my astonishment the powerful
headlights of the 20th Century Limited flashed into
view in a cut about 200 rods to my right.
"Thanks to the wide awake engineer he appar-
ently saw my headlights about the same time that I
did his. And such a grinding of brakes, shrieking of
whistle! Realizing what I was in for I threw the
throttle wide open at the same time threw the car
into reverse, but not a second too soon. As I cleared
the tracks the train shot by. You may talk about
your thrills and hairbreadth escapes, but I am telling
you I don't want another like that. Perhaps I might
not be so lucky next time.
"As I pulled into Chicago late in the evening over
Western avenue two gunmen took a shot at me from
the side of the road. It is enough to say I did not
linger long in that neighborhood as now the car was
broken in enough for a quick get away.
"Starting from Chicago I drove to St. Paul, Minn.,
in one day going via Waterloo, Iowa. You wonder
how this could be done. I'll have to confess it was
the famous old tornadoes of Iowa, that literally
speaking chased me through the country. I drove
seventy miles an hour most of the time "to keep out
of their path."
Nothing but a Ford roadster with a Bowen loader
attachment could get over the roads approaching
Fargo, N. D., to which he toured from Minneapolis.
Three weeks of rain had turned the roads to a quag-
mire where his big car was powerless. By using
detours, in a roundabout way, he got to Fargo, where
a kindly fire department outfit turned a strong press-
ure hose on his mud-coated car.
He raced the Northern Pacific coast train, a fast
one, from Fargo to Billings, Mont., and confesses he
only beat the train one hour and fifteen minutes in a
run of seven hundred miles. He experienced a tremor
of earthquake at Manhattan, Mont., and another at
Three Forks in the same state. At Mullen, Idaho, he
broke the speed regulations prescribing ten miles an
hour by going at twenty and was arrested, fined and
lectured by a grave judge who expressed a belief
that twenty-five miles an hour should be a hanging
matter.
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
The E. Paul Jones Music House, 807 Walnut street,
Des Moines, Iowa, is holding a sale of pianos, phono-
graphs and baud instruments preparatory to moving
to new quarters.
E. Paul Jones, music merchant of Des Moines,
Iowa, is closing out his business at 80 Walnut street,
and moving his stock and fixtures to 915-17 Walnut
street.
The formal opening of Riley Littlejohn's Music
Store at 104 First avenue East, Oskaloosa, Iowa, was
held recently.
Witzman-Stuber, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., will occupy
the group of stores in Hotel Peabody Block on Union
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avenue this week. A sale is being conducted at the
firm's old quarters on North Second street prelimi-
nary to removal to the new store.
The Parks Music House Co., in Louisiana, Mo., is
conducting a sale of players and phonographs. Dur-
ing this sale railroad and bus fares are being refunded
to out-of-town purchasers. Free delivery is offered
to all points.
J. J. Roberts, proprietor of Roberts' Music Shop,
Battle Creek, Mich., is preparing to move his busi-
ness from 53 East Main street to 127 West Main
street.
The Marolf Music Store, which was opened re-
cently in Pasco, Wash., is planning to increase its
stock.
Moore & Moore will soon open a music shop at
1261 Wayne street, Noblesville, Ind.
The Platt Music Co., Los Angeles, will occupy the
building at 4369 South Vermont avenue as soon as
alterations are completed.
Foster & Waldo, Minneapolis music house, is mak-
ing arrangements for removal of its stock to its new
home at 818-20 Nicollet avenue.
The Callaway Music House, of La Crosse, Wis.,
will open a branch at Tomah, Wis., in the near future.
The Crescent Drug Co., of Pasco, Wash., has dis-
continued its music department.
KNABE FOR HIGH SCHOOL.
A beautiful Knabe Grand, the gift of the Parent-
Teachers Association of Dayton, Ohio, has just been
installed in the splendid Emerson High School of
that city. The piano was purchased of D. E. Ahlers,
Dayton representative for the Knabe. This splendid
school is equipped with every modern device, no
expense having been spared to make it an institution
perfect in every detail. Mr. Ahlers is being congratu-
lated upon having secured the order for the Knabe
for the fine concert room of this splendid building.
STARR IN BRAZIL, IND.
Ira C. Serrin, well known piano man of Brazil,
Ind., has opened a piano salesroom at 18 North
Franklin street, handling the lines of the Starr Piano
Company, Richmond, Ind. Mr. Serrin will also
maintain a display of samples at 5 West National
avenue in the Citizens bank block. Mr. Serrin has
had many years' experience in the piano business,
having formerly been with the C. S. York Piano Co.
He will carry a complete line of Starr pianos, players,
phonographs and records, as well as radio sets and
parts.
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT,
CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE
ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUG. 24, 1912,
of PRESTO, published weekly at Chicago, 111., for October
1, 1925.
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notary public in and for the state and county aforesaid,
personally appeared C. A. Daniell, who, having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the
Editor of Presto, and that the following is, to the best of
his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the owner-
ship, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation),
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the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912,
embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
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1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, edi-
tor, managing editor and business manager are:
Publisher—Presto Publishing Co., 417 S. Dearborn St.
Editors—C. A. Daniell and F. D. Abbott, 417 S. Dear-
born St.
Managing Editor—J. Fergus O'Ryan, 417 S. Dearborn
St.
Business Manager—F. D. Abbott, 417 S. Dearborn St.
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the names and addresses of stockholders owning or hold-
ing 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock)—
F. D. Abbott, 417 S. Dearborn St.; C. A. Daniell, 417 S.
Dearborn St.
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if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and se-
curity holders as they appear upon the books of the
company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or se-
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the circumstances and conditions under which stockhold-
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ties in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner;
and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other
person, association or corporation has any interest di-
rect or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securi-
ties than as so stated by him.
PRESTO PUBLISHING CO.,
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September, 1925,
Bessie K. Ferguson, Notary Public.
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