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PRESTO-TIMES
PRESTO-TIMES WANT ADVS.
E X P E R I E N C E D PIANO S A L E S M A N O P E N .
Piano salesman with 25 years' experience in wholesale,
retail and special sales work, desires connection with
reliable firm. Sober, energetic and good closer. Can
furnish best of references. Has car. Colorado or a d -
joining states preferred. Address "Closer," Box 6,
P R E S T O - T I M E S Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
POSITION W A N T E D .
To take charge of tuning and repair department or an
opening for a first-class repair shop of my own. Ex-
perienced in all classes of work. Address "Repair
Man," Box 11, P R E S T O - T I M E S , 417 S. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, III.
EXPERIENCED TRAVELER.
Piano traveler of wide experience and acquaintance in
the trade is open for engagement with the new year.
Must be good house. Highest references as to ability
and responsibility. Address "S. J . , " Box 11, P R E S T O -
T I M E S Office, 417 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
W H O L E S A L E SALESMAN W A N T E D .
Piano salesman for wholesale work. Must be well versed
and acquainted with trade. Good salary for man that
can qualitfy. State age and experience. Address
"Qualify," Box 3, P R E S T O - T I M E S , 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
GOOD L A N D FOR PIANOS.
Will trade three ten-acre timbered tracts adjoining good
Oklahoma town (oil and minerals reserved) for fif-
teen average "take i n " pianos. No junk considered.
R. C. Bishop's Piano Shop, Ada, Okla.
AN EASTERN OPPORTUNITY.
Owing to change in control one of the most famous of
the New York piano industries may be secured, i n -
cluding everything that pertains to a high-class i n -
dustry, with or without the factory building. The
name and good will are alone of almost inestimable
value and may be had at very reasonable price and
terms. If in earnest please address "Values," care
Box 1, P R E S T O - T I M E S , 417 So. Dearborn St., Chi-
cago, III.
from Chickering & Sons, Boston, a Chickering Grand
Ampico for installation in the magnificent new audi-
torium which has recently been completed.
Mrs. V. J. Howson is the proprietor of Howson's
Music Store at 24 West Bowery street, Akron, O..
St. Louis House Donates Gulbransen Minuet Model which handles band instruments and the Deagan
line of percussion instruments.
for Therapeutic Purposes to City Hospital.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
The Kieselhorst Piano Co., St. Louis, has donated also anounces an inquiry from a firm in Berlin, Ger-
a Gulbransen Minuet model piano to the city hospital many, which requires piano manufacturing machinery
to further a well organized plan of musical treat- and tools. The number of the inquiry is 23 0(13.
ment worked out by the Board of Religious Organ-
The new manager of the small goods department
izations of St. Louis.
of the C. C. Batter store, Columbus, O., is P. Grojean.
Mrs. Maud Ilsen is responsible for working out the a professional player.
plan whereby the good cheer of music is brought to
R. A. Nantz and M. R. Mitchell of Martin, Tenn.,
the ailing in the City Hospital. She was a trained have purchased thep lant of the Paris Veneer Co ,
nurse for years and had done a good deal of analyz- Paris, Tex.
ing of the therapeutic value of music on the human
A. F. Bechendorf, of Hartford. Conn., is the new
system, particularly in hospitals prior to the war and owner of the Wendheiser Music Store, Rockville,
during the war. She has demonstrated to the satis- Conn., recently purchased from George P. Wendhei-
faction of physicians that even temperatures can be ser, who has been in business there for over twenty
reduced through the music. The alleviation of suf-
fering in fracture wards, under the benign influence
of music has been most notable.
FORMAL OPENING IN SAVANNAH.
KIESELHORST PIANO COMPANY
GIVES PIANO TO HOSPITAL
The recent formal opening of the new store of the
B. J. Sheppard Co., Savannah, Ga., was one of the
most successful inaugurations of a new business build-
ing in the history of that city. On the opening day
seven thousand people streamed into the warerooms,
splendidly decorated for the occasion with merchan-
dise displayed in an attractive way.
LATE FACTS GATHERED
IN THE MUSIC TRADE
Brief Items of Activities in the Business Collected
in Many States.
The Chicago Federation of Musicians now num-
bers six thousand members, compared with three
thousand in 1923.
Phillips-Andover Academy at Andover, Mass., one
of the oldest and most famous college preparatory
schools in the United States, has recently purchased
NEW ASSISTANT
MANAGER.
Nelson Jones, who has succeeded G. R. Mance as
assistant manager of the music department of L.
Bamberger & Co., Newark, N. J., was formerly man-
ager of the piano department in the Blatt store at
Atlantic City.
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
of NEW YORK
AFFILIATED
COMPANIES
Manufacturing for the trade
Upright and Grand Pianos
Plaver Pianos
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Pianos
De Luxe Player Actions
Standard Player Actions
Welte Mignon (Licensee) Repro-
ducing Actions
Expression Player Actions
Piano Hammers
Bass Strings
IVholesdle Chicago Office and Service "Departments
San Francisco Office
462 Vhelan ^Building
KOHLER INDUSTRIES
1222 K I M B A L L B U I L D I N G
3 c% ••; CHICAGO
January 8, 1927.
TO OPEN NEW STORES.
The Manufacturers' Outlet Piano Stores of Chicago
will open stores in the following cities: Cleveland,
Detroit, Freeport, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Duluth,
St. Louis, Dubuque, Milwaukee, Gary, Toledo, Colum-
bus. This expansion will give them fourteen stores
in all. Four are now operating in Chicago. The
company is going to follow the policy of one store
•to a city.
J. E. Anderson has been placed in charge of the
talking machine department at the new Strauss-
Hirschberg department store, Youngstown, Ohio.
Newman Bros.
Grands and Uprights
Guarantee
Quality, Profit and
Satisfaction
Newman Bros. Go.
816 Dix St.
Est. 1879
CHICAGO
BRINKERHOFF
Grands • Reproducing Grands
Player-Pianos
and Pianos
The Line That Sells Easily
and Satisfies Always
BRINKERHOFF PIANO CO.
711 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
KREITER
The Leading and Most Popular
Pianos and Players
Grands, Players, Uprights and
Reproducing Pianos
The Results of Over Forty Years'
of Experience.
Kreiter Pianos Cover the Entire Line
and no Piano Dealer who tries these in-
struments would supplant them by any
others. A trial will convince.
Kreiter Mfg. Co., Inc.
310-312 W. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Factory: Marinette, Wis.
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy does not
attract bargain hunters. It does* however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very desirable
and substantial patronage.
U/IIIIAMC Maker* of Williams Pianos.
WILLIAMS Epworth Piano, and Organ.
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