January 29, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
CONSTRUCTION
PERSONAL DELIVERY OF
GIFT RECORDING ROLLS
BAUER PIANOS
Clever Idea of Fitzgerald Music Company
Well Received by Ampico Owners in
California City.
exemplify the most
radical and most pro-
gressive development
in piano building in
the present era. They
have no equal in tone
quality, substantial
construction or in-
dividuality.
Christmas brings many opportunities to 'the music
store to create good will with prospective customers
and to cement friendship with old customers. A
unique plan was carried out by the Fitzgerald Music
Company of Los Angeles which earned for them
goodwill that will be reflected for some time to come.
The week before Christmas a neatly uniformed
messenger boy called on every good customer who
had purchased an Ampico from the Fitzgerald Music
JULIUS BAUER & COMPANY
he gladly accepted. It was another welcome incident
in his continuous training to keep fit. The hunting
ground is on the 53rd parallel, where law and order
is supposed to end. Beyond that the picturesque red-
coated "Mountie" is the sole guardian. The party,
which included four Grand Forks friends of Mr.
Popplar, brought back four bull moose.
Glancing around him in the handsome Popplar
main salesroom, the Presto-Times man noted that
the fine pianos of The Cable Co., Chicago, were well
represented there.
"Well," he said, "1 see you know George M.
Slawson."
"Know him? Nobody better," replied Mr. Popplar,
as the preface to a warm eulogy of the veteran trav-
eler for The Cable Co. "There are several kinds of
salesmen among the people who would sell me
things. Some are 'sure they are,' others are 'almost'
and a few are real salesmen. 1 have them all cata-
logued.
"Then you bring to my mind George Slawson,
who is something more than a salesman; more than
a friend! He is an advisor I 'trust because his advice
is founded on experience and judgment and is dic-
tated by a heart that always has the interest of the
dealer uppermost."
Ettablithed 1SS7
WILLIAM DOLGE HEAD OF
FIRM IN ACCOUNTANTS
305 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago
Factory: 1335-1345 Altgeld Street
ARTISTIC
IN EVERY
DETAIL
HADDORFF PJANO CO.
BOCIOPOKD.ILL.
Office*;
N«v Tut Cil
I » W . 42nd S<
411 S. Micnigan An.
San Prao
M l CalUcroh Si.
"Gocd Morning! Here I s a Token from the Fitz-
gerald Music Company. A Christmas Recording for
Your Ampico. We Hope You Will Enjoy It."
Company and delivered a Christmas Ampico record-
ing, contained in a special Christmas gift package.
Inside was a card inscribed "Greetings—in Apprecia-
tion of your good will, Fitzgerald Music Company,
1926." The messenger boy upon presentation, said,
"Good morning. Here is a token from the Fitzger-
ald Music Company A Christmas recording for your
Ampico. We hope you will enjoy it."
One thousand recordings were thus presented.
Hundreds of telephone calls, personal visits and let-
ters of appreciation were received by Fitzgerald's—
tangible evidence of sincere appreciation and good
will, says Mr. S. Cravello, manager of the Ampico
Library. Needless to say, the Fitzgerald Music Com-
pany intend to make it an annual event.
SI POPPLAR KEEPS FIT
FOR THE PIANO GAME
The Good Old
SMITH & NIXON
Pianos and Player Pianos
Better than ever, with the same
"Grand Tone In Upright Case."
Grands and Players that every deal-
er likes to sell, for Satisfaction and
Profit.
Smith & Nixon Piano Co.
1229 Miller St.. Chicago
Grand Forks, N. D., Music Merchant, Telling
of a Recent Strenuous Training Incident,
Also Eulogizes George M. Slawson.
Ability of Son of Late Alfred Dolge, Told in Bulletin
of California Bulletin.
William Dolge, son of the late Alfred Dolge who
was a prominent figure in the piano and felt manufac-
turing fields, is head of William Dolge & "Co., certified
public accountants, 369 Pine street, San Francisco,
and a member of the State Society of Certified
Accounts.
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With the thoroughness that distinguished his ener-
getic father, Mr. Dolge developed his mathematical
abilities along the line of accountancy. The require-
ments of the modern profession of-accountancy are so
exacting that years of intensive study and practical
training are essential to prepare the applicant for the
state examinations which lead to the coveted C. P. A.
certificate.
The California C. P. A. law has been on the statute
books for more than a quarter century and there
are now over five hundred public accountants in Cali-
fornia holding the state certificate. Semi-annually
•the identical examination is given simultaneously
in thirty-five states, including California—a uniform
standard of professional requirement unique in learned
professions. The letters C. P. A. following Mr.
Dolge's name signify his ability to render essential
service to business.
DETROIT PIANO MAN'S DEATH.
'•
The trade lost a well-known piano man and dis-
tinguished singer last week by the death of Charles
A. Bell, who died of pneumonia at his home, 11042
Cloverlawn avenue, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Bell was
born in Covington, Ky., in 1878. As a .young man
he went on the stage, touring in vaudeville for sev-
eral seasons. Later he was employed by the Kim-
ball Piano Company at Nashville, Term., and sent
by them to Detroit in 1916, where he was department
manager until his death. Mr. Bell sang before many
clubs and several times over the radio through Sta-
tion WWJ, located in the Detroit. News Building.
He was a Mason and a member of the Tribe of Ben
Hur. His widow, Nellie, survives. The interment
took place at Lawton, Mich., on Friday.
STARR PIANO CO. WINS SUIT.
Judgment for possession of a number of pianos,
Si I'opp.lar, head of the Popplar Piano Co., of valued at $4,656, and for damages in the sum of $5,
Grand Forks, N. D., has an engaging personality was granted in Muncie, lnd., last week to the Starr
which invites a play on his name when his 'standing Piano Co. and the Starr Piano Co. Sales Corporation,
in his community is considered. He is popular and Richmond, lnd, in a suit against Edward W. Alley
the importance of the commercial interests he has and others, comprising the Starr Music , Shop of
created is the best mark of the sincerity of feeling Muncie. The suit was brought in Superior court in
for the man and his music business in Grand Forks, replevin where it was submitted before Jifdge Robert
throughout Grand Forks County and for many miles F. Murrav.
up and down Red River on the North Dakota and
Minnesota sides.
RETURNS TO LOUISVILLE.
Mr. Popplar is an all 'round sport, and he considers
Robert Shackleton, for some time with a Chicago
the piano business the most engaging diversion of
music house, has returned to Louisville, Ky., to
all the games. He can shoot, play baseball and .associate himself with his brother, Carl Shackleton,
handle the eight-ounce gloves with the huskiest of the in conducting a piano store. Before going to Chi-
sportive young North Dakotans. Energetic boxing cago, where he was manager of the small-instrument
bouts with friends are among the effective means he division, he had been in the musical instrument busi-
employs to keep himself fit for the mental and physi- ness in Louisville for twelve years. ;
cal exactions of the piano field. Selling pianos today
in his territory be considers a large-size job that de-
SCHUMANN IN WASHINGTON.
mands thorough fitness of mind and body in the
The Arthur Jordan Piano Company, Washington,
salesman.
When Mr. Popplar was recently invited to take D. C, is one of the enthusiastic representatives of the
Schumann Piano Co., of Rockford, 111. When it
part in a moose hunt out of Mafening, 395 miles north
and west of Winnipeg, by the superintendent of the comes to writing good advertising copy, F. H. Kin-
Dolphin division of the Canadian National Railway, nel, of the Washington house, isn't so slow either.
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