PRESTO-TIMES
June 16, 1928
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"ADAM" Style X Grand. A
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with bench, to match.
Surpris-
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throughout.
ERE'S another sales winner! A beautiful Adam Grand with bench
to match in the popular 5 ft. size at a remarkably attractive price.
And winning sales plans too! You've always known the quality of Pack-
ard instruments—now you can cash in. This idea closed $7000 worth of
piano business, 12 sales in a town of less than 5000 population in just 21
days. Prospects actually ask your salesmen to call—resistance is removed.
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THE PACKARD PIANO COMPANY
3335 Packard Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Adam. Model—Bench to Match
Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Wisconsin News,
Birmingham Age-Herald, Cleveland News, Fort
Myers Palm Leaf, Knoxville Free Press, Louisville
Herald-Post, Nashville Banner, Pensacola Journal,
Conover Piano Aids Speaker Who Spoke of Instru-
Pottsville Journal, St. Louis Times, Shreveport Jour-
ment's Effect on America's Home Life.
nal, Tampa Tribune, Venice (Venice, Fla.), Syracuse
B. C. Forbes, Noted Writer on Economic and Telegram, Altoona Daily Mirror, Buffalo Times, Day-
"The Value of the Piano in the Home" was the
ton News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Lakewortb
theme of the Kiwanis Club luncheon recently at the
Financial Matters, Makes It Basis of
Leader, Mansfield Daily Journal, New Orleans States.
Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Ore. B. R. Brasslield
Article in Heart Papers.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Prescott Printing Co., St. Paul
was chairman of the day and presented an ei.tertain-
ing program. Dr. A. A. Witham was the principal
The Hearst newspapers in their department con- Dispatch-Pioneer Press. Toledo News-Bee, Williams-
speaker, who spoke of the wide range which the piano
ducted by B. C. Forbes, the eminent writer on eco- port Gazette and Bulletin.
fills in connection with home life and its influence
nomic and financial conditions in the United States,
in knitting together the strands that form home in-
recently published an article based on a letter written
PROUD OF B. K. SETTERGREN CO.
fluences. A delightful musical program was given.
by A. G. Gulbransen, president of the Gulbransen
At a banquet of the Blurfton, hid.. Chamber of
A
Conover piano was used for the occasion, furnished
Company, Chicago, to Mr. Forbes.
Commerce this week, attended by nearly 100 mem-
"Is there a shortage of men in some industries? bers, the industrial situation in the town was cheer- by Mr. Brassfield of the Brasslield Piano Company.
The music trade of Portland, Ore., was visited re-
One employer writes that there is. Letters continue fully presented by Elmer D. Sturgis, chairman of the
to pour in dealing with various phases of employment
industrial committee, who said the city was in a very cently by R. K. Maynard of the M, Schulz Co.,
and unemployment, on giving jobs to married women, excellent condition industrially. To prove this point, Chicago, who is making an extensive trip covering
or denying jobs to men of 40, etc.. etc. A. G. Gul- he cited several facts obtained in a general survey. the entire Pacific coast territory.
C. B. Sampson, the Boise. Ida., music merchant
bransen of Chicago, president of his own piano man- Among them was one relating to the R. K. Setter-
who purchased the bankrupt stock of the G. F. John-
ufacturing company writes:
gren Co. which, he said, "is enjoying a good, steady
son Piano Company of Portland. Ore., is being as-
" ' I have been very interested to read the sugges- run and is expanding."'
sisted
in his sale of the stock by B. R. Brassfield of
tions sent to you to relieve the present unemployment
the
Brassfield
Piano Company, who is doing business
in the United States. In my opinion there is a good
BALDWIN ROLL OF HONOR.
out of the Powers Furniture Store. Mr. Sampson
deal in the way of adjusting to be done as well as
The Baldwin Piano Company, Cincinnati, has is- announces that he will not maintain a long drawn
bringing about changes in fundamental conditions.
sued
the Roll of Honor showing schools, churches out sale, but will take what stock is not quickly
The development of so many new industries has had
disposed of to Idaho and distribute it in his branch
and
prominent
institutions recently purchasing instru-
the effect of taking workers away from old-estab-
stores in that state.
ments built bv the House of Baldwin.
lished industries. Tens of thousands of them have
lllocked to the newer lines of business. While some
industries have a surplus of man-power, others arc
seriously deficient in numbers.
" "I have sent out a plea for 100,000 salesmen for
the piano business. It is very seriously undermanned.
This propoganda has been going on for months, for
Edwin R. Weeks of Weeks
there is a real demand for salesmen—and particularly
& Dickinson, Binghamton, X.
for new sales blood—in the piano business.
Y., was the designer of the
" "Our company has been calling the dealers to- striking window display sug-
gether at regional meetings, held at considerable ex- gesting the suitability of the
pense at various points of the country, to bring this piano as a gift for the June
serious lack of man-power forcibly to the attention
bride, recently an attraction to
of the trade and to devise ways and means of over-
wayfarers on Chenango street
coming it. In our business the lack of an adequate
in that lively city.
number of salesmen is at the bottom of one of those
This display is made up of
circles of circumstances: Inadequate selling has re- cardboard dummies showing a
duced the output; reduced output has cut the num- performer at a Standard grand,
ber of factory workers, and this again has its effect in
manufactured by H a r d m a n ,
reduction of their buying power, affecting the general
Peck & Co., Xew York. The
situation.
dignified minister performing
"' "Possibly there are other industries in the same
the cere:nony, and the beautiful
position. If there were some means of calling public
b r i d e , and scared - to - death
attention to them and the opportunities existing there,
bridegroom, make up the rest
it might do much to relieve the situation.' "
of the ensemble.
This appeared in the following papers: Atlanta
The quality of IIUIDIT in his
Georgian, Detroit Times, X. Y. American, Baltimore
window displays .'•hows Mr.
American. Los Angeles Examiner, Rochester Amer-
Weeks' possession of a valuable
ican, Boston Advertiser, Chicago Herald-Examiner.
accompaniment to the artistic
San Antonio Light. San Francisco Examiner, Wash-
sense. His ability to write hu-
ington Herald, Bethlehem Globe. Charlescton News
morous verse with snap to it is
HA ROMAN 1'IANO KIOATTI iKI) IX "WINDOW.
Courier, Daytona Beach News, Jacksonville Journal,
also well known to many.
Lima Morning Star, Memphis Commercial Appeal,
When the gavel was presented to C. J. Roberts at
part of the program, arose and recited a very witty
Oil City Blizzard, Pittsburgh Press, Reading Xews-
the Music Merchants' banquet in the Commodore
ihyme of his own composition, each word ending in
fimes, San ford Times, St. Petersburg Times, Tlsa
last week, Mr. Weeks, who was on the impromptu
"ation."
QULBRANSEN CO.'S APPEAL
FOR 100,000 SALESMEN
KIWANIS AT PORTLAND
TOLD OF PIANO'S MERITS
HUMOR IN GOOD WINDOW DISPLAY
SEE COVER PAGE ANNOUNCEMENT OF JESSE FRENCH & SONS PIANO CO.
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