January 7,
PRESTO-TIMES
The Background
of
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
1855
Havana—Fox Trot.
1839
I'm Coming Virginia—Fox Trot.
1854- -Leonora—Fox Trot.
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UNGER MUSIC SELLS WELL
Fine List of Songs and Piano Pieces Published by
Reading, Pa., House.
The trade in all points of the country is interested
in the music publications of the J. S. Unger Music
House, Reading, Pa. The following numbers are
among the best sellers:
Songs—(new release)—Memories Dream (waltz
ballad), Your Arms Are Home, Sweet Home, to Me,
We Don't Know Where We'tc Going, Dawn and
Eventide (sacred), Hail to Our Heroes (Libbey's
favorite), *The Way of the World, We Never Met
Again, Rocking to Sleep, Wild Flowers of America,
*The Man That Catches Me Must Have the Good
Hard Cash (with extra verses).
Piano Solos, J. S. Unger Compositions—Scram-
bled Egg March, Valse De-Salone in A, The Idyl of
the Brook, Sunrise "Reverie" (very popular), The
Requiem, Edna's (easy little number), A June Morn-
ing, Melodie in F, The Star of -Bethlehem-(pleasing),
Harlequin Gavotte (very catchy), xReading's 175th
Anniversary March, xDie Jula Polka (German text).
Student Delight—Morning (at play), Noon (a quiet
nook), Night (evening waltz).
BROADCAST "SMILES."
For several months past the ''Troubadours," famous
New York musical organization, whose playing is
broadcast in a chain of stations from New York,
have opened and closed their evening programs with
Lee S. Roberts' composition, "Smiles." Mr. Roberts
was well-known for years in connection with the
Q R S Music Roll Company in New York and in
Chicago and is now located in San Francisco, where
he is at the head of the Lee S. Roberts, Inc., 230
Post street, the Chickering house of that city.
WITH HEAVY SELECTED
GRAINED IVORINE
$8.00 per set
Lonely Hawaii—Marimba Waltz.
Moonlit Waters—Fox Trot.
1845
Nothin'—Fox Trot.
ALSO
1847
No Wonder
Trot.
General Piano Key Work
1841
Roam On My Little Gypsy Sweet-
heart—Fox Trot.
1851
Rosy Cheeks—Fox Trot.
1846
Shaking the Blues Away
the "Follies").
1837
Sing Me a Baby Song—Fox Trot.
1848
Sometimes I'm Happy (from "Hit
the Deck").
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Tired Hands—Marimba Waltz.
1844
Underneath the Wabash Moon—
Fox Trot.
1838
When Shadows Creep—Fox Trot.
1850
Who's That. Pretty Baby?—One
Step.
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
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Printed Words
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1842
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