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°ur only reason for not printing ev-
erything‘ about that little New World
Paris is to avoid placing an addi­
tional burden upon our advertisers at
this time. I can only comment that
gambling- seems to be the first o f our
human frailties to get the axe. E v­
erything else in the category of
shortcomings was permitted, aided,
encouraged, abetted and condoned.
Resorts Need Machines
There is the biggest kind of a field
among all those resorts for Ameri­
Can amusement machines. Give a
man or woman a shot of tequila or
Pulque and they’ll play the machines
till ready for the next one. I saw
only one coin machine and that was
a Master peanut vendor at the Mon­
tezuma Bar adjusted to 5c play and
Vended just 2c worth of peanuts and
^as being played with painful regu­
larity. If some of you manufacture
ers want to get into a rich territory,
I am taking it upon myself to sug­
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gest you write to Mr. Bloss, who
can probably help make some selling
connections. Along the border towns
American coins are almost entirely
used.
Houston Boys Ready
Coming back to Houston, I re­
gretted to miss C. A . Nichols, presi­
dent of the Southwestern Operators’
Association. He was in Chicago at
the time.
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Houston is dolling up to entertain
the Democrats and the boys will, of
course, get theirs while the crowd is
there, because all Texas is preparing
to attend. The Houston operators
should buy some new machines and
paint up the old ones. I saw some
very old model Advance machines
there that ought to be replaced. I
passed up Beaumont regretfully be­
cause we have several live subscrib­
ers there that I would like to have
seen.
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