Automatic Age

March, 1934
115
A U T O M A T IC A G E
Official of American
Chicle Go. Dies
Stephen T. Britten, vice-president
of the American Chicle Company, died
on March 9th after a lingering ill­
ness, it is reported. He was 74 years
old. The American Chicle Company
is one of the country’s largest manu­
facturers of chewing gum products.
More than fifty years ago, Mr. Brit­
ten founded the Canadian Chicle Com­
pany which was later merged with
American Chicle Company,
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view of the
new b uild ing on Diversey P a rk w a y w hich
C hicago Coin M achine C om pany.
Michigan Operators
Annual Meet
The annual meeting and banquet of
the Automatic Merchandisers’ Asso­
ciation of Michigan was scheduled to
be held Saturday, March 17th, at the
Detroit-Leland 'hotel in Detroit. A
business session with election of offi­
cers was to be held at 3 o’clock in
the afternoon, with dinner and dance
to begin at 8 o’clock in the evening.
Gerber Attends
Goast Show
Paul Gerber will represent the
Chicago Coin Machine Company at
the Pacific Coin Machine Exposition,
*t Was announced after the C.M.M.A.
Exposition. His son, Sherwood, was
to accompany Mr. Gerber on the trip,
**) with the Cubs baseball team at
Batalina Island. Sherwood Gerber is
a star baseball player on the Senn
(Chicago) High School team.
is now the
home of the
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Operators price
$7.50
“I drove away in a fine new eight-
cylinder car. I can’t go back in an
°ld $15 four-cylinder flivver, can I? ”
F.O.B. Fort Wayne, Ind.
Tax Paid
One-half cash with order,
balance 15 days.
What Machine?
SEE PAGE 89
Y o u r copy should reach us b y t h a t
date.
“Say, why don't you go back to
y°Ur old home town and settle
down ?”
accommodates 8 players at one
time and still requires only a
small counter space?
“There’s a big difffference between
the kings of old times and the kings
now.”
“How’s that?”
“In former times the kings used to
keep fools; now the fools keep them.”
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