March 15, 1929
21
P R E S T O-T I M E S
BUYS CARRYOLA CO.
Allen Hough Manufacturing Company, Racine,
Wis., Is Purchaser and New Portable
Phonograph Co. Is Formed.
dimensions being four by six by one and one-quarter
inches.
Directors of the new Allen Hough Carryola Com-
pany include, in addition to the three officers, Albert
J. Pick, Jr., Chicago; Louis E. Yager, Chicago;
Bruno V. Bitker, Milwaukee; Dr. H. G Morton, Mil-
waukee; Rollo Gullickson, Chicago, and J. P. Wash-
burn, Chicago.
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The Allen Hough Manufacturing Co , Racine,
Wis., has purchased the Carryola Company of Amer-
ica, of Milwaukee, a subsidiary of the Prime Manu-
facturing Co., according to a recent announcement.
K. E. Mears, advertising representative of Smith
A new corporation, the Allen Hough Carryola Com-
Bros., Inc., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., famous cough
pany, has been formed, with assets over $500,000.
Both the Allen Hough and the Carryola companies drop manufacturer, recently drove up to the factory
have been among the largest manufacturers of port- of the Clark Orchestra Roll Company, De Kalb, 111.,
able phonographs in the country. The new concern and picked out a comprehensive program of up-to-
will be the nation's largest independent maker of this the-minute music rolls for use on the Calliaphone.
Smith Bros., manufacturers of the well-known
line of products, and expects to do business amount-
cough drops, are one of America's oldest concerns,
ing to $3,000,000 this year.
Don T. Allen, while working for the Prime Manu- but are constantly alert to the modern type of adver-
facturing Company, is said to have induced Orton W. tising and their fleet of gaily colored Calliaphones
Prime, president, to organize the Carryola Company are proving a real novelty wherever they travel.
K. E Mears was on a return trip to New York
as a subsidiary. He became vice-president of both
the Carryola and the Prime Manufacturing Com- State after a tour of the middle west, and reports
Clark rolls are lielping "put over" the adver-
panies, but left a year and a half ago and organized that
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the Allen Hough Company in Racine with Mr. tis ng in tine shape.
And they use Clark rolls exclusively!
Hough, who had been sale's manager of the Carryola
Company.
At the "Rio Rita" show, now playing at the Audi-
Production will be started immediately on a new
product, the Allen Hough Motor, a synchronous torium, one of the best numbers is furnished by
electrical motor for use in portable phonographs and Edward Shapiro and Bert Shefter on the two Bald-
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