Presto

February 25, 1928
The Background
A BUSY ROLL
DEPARTMENT
PRESTO-TIMES WANT ADVS.
SALES MANAGER WANTS POSITION.
WANTED—Position as manager or sales manager. Can
furnish A1 reference in regard to ability, honesty and
character. 15 years' experience as salesman, manager
and owner. 40 years of age. Married. One child.
Desire to make change on or before April 1, 1928.
Address "J,'" care PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
STORE FOR SALE.
Music store for sale in thriving northwest city. Annual
business, $60,000, $8,000 last year. Invoice, $10,000.
Address Box Q, % PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S. Dearborn
St., Chicago.
STORE FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—Established music store in heart of Cali-
fornia. Stock and fixtures invoice about $1,000. Every-
thing ideal for successful operation. Store has never
failed to make money. Ill health reason for selling.
Address "G. V., Box 1 , " % PRESTO-TIMES, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago.
WANTS OUTSIDE MANAGER.
Experienced piano salesman wanted. Must be a strong
closer and capable of handling outside men. Name
references and experience. Kreiter Piano Co., Mil-
waukee, Wis.
THE NEW
CAPITOL
WORD ROLLS
FEBRUARY RELEASES.
1939
1936
1949
1929
1942
1961
1938
Beautiful—Fox Trot
Dancing Tambourine—Fox Trot
Diane—Marimba Waltz
Did You Mean It?—Fox Trot
Down South—Fox Trot
Dream Kisses—Fox Trot • •
Everybody Loves My Girl—Fox
Trot
1947 Everywhere You Go—Fox Trot
1946 Four" Walls—Fox Trot
1948 Get 'Em in a Rumble Seat—Fox
Trot
1930 Is She My Girl Friend?—Fox Trot
1945 Been Longing for a Girl Like You
—Fox Trot
1932 Mississippi Mud—Fox Trot
1943 My Melancholy Baby—Fox Trot
1944 Oh! Susanna
1933 Old Names of Old Flames—Ma-
rimba Waltz
1934 Our Bungalow of Dreams—Fox
Trot
1931 Rain—Fox Trot
1937 Sh-h! Here Comes My Sugar—Fox
Trot
1952 Southern Skies—Fox Trot
1950 Surrender—Unified Marimba Bal-
lad
1941 The Sweetest Story Ever Told—
Marimba
1935—A Rickety Rackety Shack—Fox
Trot
1951 Tin Pan Parade—Fox Trot
1940 When I Was Hikhv With You—
Fox Trot
Extra Choruses
A Longer Roll
Seventy-five cents
Printed Words
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P R E S T 0-T I M E S
Hand Played
Made of the best materials
obtainable.
Will please your trade and
double your sales.
Quality and price make
Capitol rolls the deal-
er's best profit producer
in n mil department.
TUNER WANTED.
POSITION WANTED—First-class tuner and repairman
with sales experience desires position in mid-western
city of less than 100,000 population. Experience i n -
cludes electrics and reproducers. Address "Tuner,"
Box 4, care PRESTO-TIMES.
ELECTRIC PIANOS FOR SALE.
Eight Style " L " Seeburg electric coin-operated pianos.
Bargains for quick sale. Write or wire Schneider
Music Co., Vincennes, Ind.
AN OPPORTUNITY.
Music store for sale in town of 9,000 inhabitants. Bus-
iness established twenty years. Only music store for
miles in northeastern Iowa. For particulars address
"H.
M. H.," care PRESTO-TIMES office, 417 S.
Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
tion to dismiss the bill. The purpose of the suit was
to enjoin the Radio Corporation of America from
enforcing license agreements alleged to constitute an
unfair method of competition and to be in violation
of the Sherman act and the Clayton act, made by and
between the defendant, the General Electric Com-
pany, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing
Company and twenty-five manufacturers of radio
receiving sets, and assented to by the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company.
RADIO MIX-UP.
"The situation in regard to radio legislation in
Washington at the present moment is one of the
worst our industry has ever faced," writes the Na-
tional Association of Broadcasters, 1265 Broadway,
Clark Orchestra Roll Co. Announces a Sure Profit New York. The Senate has appropriately passed a
Maker for St. Patrick's Day.
bill extending the life of the Commission another
year, but unfortunately have burdened it with one
The Clark Orchestra Roll Co., De Kalb. 111., has of the most amazing amendments in the history of
announced a special St. Patrick's Day roll which is legislation.
This bill now awaits action by t he
a sure winner for electric piano owners. The special House Committee, which up to the present moment
contains the following tunes: There's a Typical Tip- of writing shows no disposition to act with any
perary Over Here, one step; Pretty Peggy, fox speed, continuing hearings far afield from the scope
trot; Colleen O'Mine, waltz; Eileen, fox trot; Biddy, of intent of the Radio Act for 1927."
fox trot, Peggy O'Neil, waltz, It's a Long, Long Way
to Tipperary, one-step; When Irish Eyes Are Smil-
TOY PIANO MAKER HANGS SELF.
ing, waltz; Molly O, fox trotf"; If Shamrocks Grew
Edwin H. Mosher, 00 years old, inventor and de-
Along the Swanee Shore, fox trot; Molly Malone,
signer of toy pianos, took his own life on Saturday
waltz; I'm Doublin' Back to Dublin, fox trot.
The roll number is 913 and dealers are requested to last at his home in South Paris, Me. His body was
place orders at the earliest possible date to assure found by his wife in the basement of their home. Mr.
Mosher, a native of New York, had been superin-
timely shipments.
tendent for the last twelve years of the Mason Man-
ufacturing Company, one of the largest toy works in
LUNCHEON BY ORGANISTS.
the country.
Nearly 150 members of the Organists' Guild of
America attended the annual luncheon given last
week by the Women's Committee of the guild in the
parish house of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New
York. Miss Arabel'a Coale, chairman, presided, and
introduced the speakers, among whom were Dr.
Frank L. Sealy, warden of the guild; Dr. William C.
Carl and Dr. Samuel A. Baldwin. A miniature of an
early form of portable pipe organ was presented to
Dr. Baldwin in honor of his fiftieth anniversary as an
organist. Fifty lighted candles represented the pipes.
After the luncheon Mine. Nevada Van der Veer,
soprano, sang a group of songs, and Miss Sydney
Thompson gave old English madrigals.
ANOTHER CLARK SPECIAL
Wanted: Tfoung Men!
NOW PARAGON MFG. CO.
The title of the Paragon Case Co., Inc., Oregon,
111., has been changed to the Paragon Manufacturing
Co., Inc., according to an announcement made by
Robert Floess, president. The capital stock has been
increased and the business will continue to be con-
ducted from Oregon where the concern has its plant
and offices. The other officers of the Paragon Manu-
facturing Co., Inc., are H. Lebowich, vice-president;
Joseph F. Reed, treasurer; and Charles G. Gilbert,
secretary.
ENJOINS RADIO CORPORATION.
A motion to enjoin the Radio Corporation of Amer-
ica from enforcing contracts it has made for the
sale of radio tubes was granted Arthur D. Lord,
receiver in equity for the Deforest Radio Company,
and others, by Judge, Hugh M. Morris in the federal
district court the other day. The court denied a mo-
THE TWO BIGGEST SONG HITS
IN THE U. S. A. TODAY ARE
"CAROLINA"
—to become specialists in a field which will not
only pay them exceptionally well but which
will give them socialstanding and prominence!
O young men "looking for such an opportunity wo
havo an unusual offer. Fight now in numberless
cities and towi s in the United States, *here is a great
shortage of piano experts, technicians and tuners.
The few masters there are, are earning large salaries
for thla rxceptionally pleasant work. Their time is
cr-k^r'
theirown. Thpy meet the best peo-
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pic and soon establish a wealthy clien-
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iano Tuning, La Porte, Ind.
a copy of your free booklet,
of becoming a professional
WILLIAMS
PIANOS
(I'm Conning Back to You)
"SUPPOSING"
(A Novelty Game Song)
Capitol Roll & Record Co.
721 N. Kedzie Ave., CHICAGO, ILL.
Publishers
J. S. UNGER
READING
MUSIC
HOUSE
j 2 5 0 to $5JO a m o nth!
This is the opnortunity you are looking for. Pull yourself out
• he rut. Make a place for yourself among the
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100.00 laboratory fits you for a real paying pro-
fession. You can doit. Others have with noletter
backing than you have. Find out the facts anyway.
POLK COLLEGE OF PIANO TUNING
Polk Building, DaettO
La Porte. Ind.
By AL. HAYES and A. T. L,AX
By DR. F. PALMER and A. T. I.AX
DEALER CONSIDER YOUR GAIN IN PROFITS
.Mail Us 15c in Postage and the Postman Will
Bring You a Copy of Each
(Formerly Columbia Music Roll Co.)
TUNER WANTED.
WANTED—A high class tuner who thoroughly under-
stands automatic, electric and reproducing pianos of
all types. One with sales ability and knowledge of
radios preferred. Salary $50 per week to begin.
Steady Job to right man. Write or wire. Kaliski
Music Company, Ltd., Monroe, La.
The policy of the Williams House is and always
has been to depend upon excellence of product
instead of alluring price. Such a policy doe* not
attract.bargain hunters. It does, however, win the
hearty approval and support of a very denirable
and substantial patronage.
WIN.AIMS
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William,
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