Automatic Age

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T h e A u t o m a t ic A g e
Inventive imagination and a nose for ideas
finds it profitable to peep into various nooks
and corners of the business world, and far­
fetched suggestions may sometimes be the
means of starting new vlans and devices in
the automatic world.
HINTS FO R THE AUTOM ATIC TRADE M A Y
COM E FRO M V A R IE D SOURCES
Face Soap in Tubes
The toilet preparations market is an im ­
mense field and spasmodic efforts have been
made here and there to get a share of these
sales for vending machines. The chang­
ing demands of milady in the way of toilet
preparations may be worth watching. I f
the ladies show a preference for soap in
tubes, it might be tpossible to steal a march
on the retail stores and offer a novel prod­
uct and packages for sale through ma­
chines.
It seems that the ladies have been car­
rying around in their handbags small tubes
of shaving paste to use as a toilet soap.
They seem to feel that shaving paste is
easier on the skin than the ordinary toilet
soap. In fact, they find it a very pleasant
substitute for soap and one that soothes as
well as cleans.
Now a progressive manufacturer of toilet
articles has come out with a soap cream
which they will put in tubes to be carried
in the ladies’ handbag.
This new article will be placed on the
market very soon. We ,predact that this
new toilet cream soap in tubes will be a
very fa ir seller and it is more than likely
that other toilet goods manufacturers will
put out similar articles.
Nothing new in the line of soaps has been
really introduced to the American public in
a good many years and it looks as though
the time is ripe for many new innovations
in toilet and bath soaps.
Chain of Roadside Stands
The development of the roadside mer­
chandising of food products and beverages
has reached a new status with the organiza­
tion of the National Roadside Taverns, Inc.
The new company will establish the nucleus
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of the organization in the Michigan terri­
tory, headquarters being in the Citizens
Bank building, Flint, Mich. Other chains
of roadside stands are being organized, and
within a short time it is predicted this kind
of selling will adopt the chain method of
operation in all its aspects, with central
buying offices.
— N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Square Pie Bakeries
The Square Pie Bakeries, Inc. of New
Haven has bought the building formerly
occupied by the Manchester Evening Herald
here and will remodel it for the manufac­
ture of its product. Fred B. Oliver will be­
come local manager of the plant, which is
expected to go into operation early in Octo­
ber with a staff of fifteen men. It is an­
nounced that the company also plans to
open plants in Albany, Providence and
other cities in this general area.
— N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Grocery Chains
in Drug Field
Current experiments 'by one of the lead­
ing and most successful grocery chain sys­
tems indicated another step in the fa r
reaching efforts of such organizations to
increase sales volume and profits. This
expansion involves the addition of staple
drug lines, such as tooth pastes, cold creams
and standard remedies to regular stocks,
says the Standard Statistics Co., of New
York, in a current survey, which follows in
part:
“ The highly specialized nature of the
drug trade will necessarily lim it the num­
ber of such lines which can be distributed
through these channels, but over the long-
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