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PRESTO-TIMES
March 19, 1927.
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PIANO FACTORY M STORE SUPPLIES
Mr. Kirkpatrick says that 'not an orchard has been
NEW ZENITH RADIO LICENSES
planted. No attempt has been made to improve the
wild condition of the fruit by grafting, fertilizing,
Agreement of Company with Radio Corporation of
Valuable Cargoes Come from Africa and Display spraying, cultivating, or otherwise.' As a matter of
fact, so many orchards of superior varieties of the America Includes Other Manufacturing Privileges.
Covers Acres Called "the Ivory Floor."
black walnut have been planted and are being planted
Every three months London holds a great ivory that the nurserymen who make a specialty of nut The Radio Corporation of America has entered into
auction in Mincing Lane. Tusks of elephant, hippo trees are many thousands of trees behind in their an agreement with the Zenith Radio Corporation of
Chicago under which the Chicago concern was
and wild boar are put on view and cover several orders.
"At present St. Louis seems to be the headquar- licensed to use the patents held by the former cor-
acres, popularly known as "the ivory floor." The
walrus and narwhal also contribute. At an auction ters for handling the black walnut, and a number of poration and also by the Westinghouse Electric and
held recently some forty tons of this valuable article firms there use large power crackers which dispose Manufacturing Company, and the General Electric
of many carloads of this nut every year. Smaller Company.
of commerce resulted in brisk bidding.
The Zenith Radio Corporation, the first indepen-
The ivory handled in this London market arrives power crackers on the market are employed by fam-
from various parts of Africa. It is said that ele- ilies in various parts of the Mississippi Valley for dent to be licensed under these patents, admitted, in
phants, living in herds, elect when possible to die in getting out meats of the black walnut and bringing the agreement, that they were basic, and paid a large
sum covering the use of the patents in the past. The
a good deal of cash to the family coffers."
a community cemetery.
amount was not disclosed.
People who know an elephant's tusks only as they
David Sarnoff, vice-president and general manage 1
appear on the living animal are invariably surprised
MAKES RECORD BY RADIO.
of the Radio Corporation of America, said that nego-
at the great length of the tusks displayed for sale.
Maurice Francill, in Will A. Watkin Co.'s store tiations were under way with several other inde-
It is explained that nearly half of the tusk is carried
in
Dallas, Tex., recently made a demonstration of pendent industries.
inside.
The agreement with the Zenith ends negotiations
his ability to operate a Brunswick Panatrope by radio.
Without touching the instrument with his hands, which have been under way since 1922 and also
he operated every detail with startling accuracy. means the dropping of two civil actions against that
GROWTH OF BLACK WALNUT
After a brief talk Francill left the salesroom, going to concern.
Officers of the Zenith, which has a paid-in capital
the studio of Station WFAA, from which he talked
Many Orchards Are Planted and St. Louis Is Head- on radio wonders. While Francill was speaking over of $500,000 and is owned by a small group, said that
the air, a radio receiving set in the Watkin music there was no radio receiving set in this country which
quarters for Handling Valuable Wood.
did not include at least one of the more than one
store was taking his voice from the air.
hundred patents of the Radio Corporation. The cor-
Sam S. Kirkpatrick contributes a valuable letter
poration alone has invested $12,500,000 in patents
to the New York Times on the subject of black wal-
THROUGH WOOL SHIPMENTS.
which do not include 'the patents held by the West-
nut. The public as yet does not understand the ex-
tent to which the black walnut industry has been
Felt makers, wool shippers and transportation offi- inghouse and the General Electric.
developed in recent years, although periodicals and cials are interested in a recent decision of the Inter-
books devoted to the subject of nut growing have state Commerce Commission. It was in the rate
There is no reason why the piano business should
carried a great deal of information which seems to case in which Boston urged the adoption of the joint not be good, if the dealers and their salesmen would
have been kept largely within professional circles.
through rates in wool. The decision of -the commis- get after the prospects in the old way and forget to
In commenting on Mr. Kirkpatrick's letter Robert sion against Boston has greatly strengthened the talk about anything but the improvement in business
which they would themselves soon realize.
T. Morris says: "Even so well informed a writer as position of Portland, Ore., as a wool center.
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