Automatic Age

November, 1939
AUTOMATIC AGE
book matches.
When the machine
was empty the coin slots auto­
matically closed.
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The Photomaton Company of Chi­
cago leased a store on the Northwest
side of Chicago for ten years at a
reported term rental of $33,000.
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will be more easily sold on a different
type of machine.
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Chester-Pollard Amusement Co. of
New York claimed that its games
were installed on 82 ocean and coastal
passenger ships.
In addition, the
games were located in lobbies of
leading hotels, clubs, railroad sta­
tions, etc. The games were Football,
Golf, Horse Racing and Baseball.
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Exhibit Supply Co.’s improved
“Iron Claw” machine heralded the
following new features: new top
design; multi-adjustable claw; dust-
proof cabinet; new design warehouse;
Exhibit patent sliding slot; cup for
return of slugs, etc.; lacquered
polished aluminum front; magnetic
slug ejecting coin chute; new positive
type electric starter switch; and coin
register.
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S. Toder, vice-president in charge
of sales, announced that the Hospital
Specialty Company acquired the sani­
tary napkin vending machine division
of the former Hygienic Fibre Com­
pany, Versailles, Conn.— a company
established since 1884— and one of
the oldest organizations in the sani­
tary napkin dispensing machine field.
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The net income of The American
Chicle Company, Long Island City,
N. Y., for the nine months ended
September 30, 1929, amounted to
$1,623,896, after expenses, as against
$1,398,887 during the first nine
months of 1928. Net income for the
September quarter totaled $584,729,
comparing with $572,320 for the pre­
ceding quarter and $504,496 during
the September quarter of 1928.
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H. W. Alexander, a well-known
automatic engineer of New York, was
writing a book on the operation of
coin machines.
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Inquiries had been received by the
industry for machines to vend metal
tokens for street railway systems,
also for interurban tickets according
to a zone system.
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A u t o m a t i c A g e moved from 2239
So. Michigan Avenue to its newly-ac­
quired building at 2810 So. Michigan
Avenue. Larger quarters and more
printing
equipment
allowed
for
future expansion.
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The Pioneer Automatic Merchan­
dising Corporation of Detroit, al­
though starting business in April,
1929, with a paid-in capital of
$5,000, found it necessary to in­
crease it to $50,000, fully paid.
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During the nine months ended Sep­
tember 30, 1929, Autosales Corpor­
ation installed 60,413 vending ma­
chines throughout the country, or
more than three times as many as
the company installed in any previous
full year of its forty-two years’
operation.
Sales for the nine months’ period
totaled $1,137,000 compared with
$1,050,000 for the entire 1928 year.
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O. D. Jennings & Co.’s house organ,
Tips and Topics, was instructing op­
erators not to overlook a big oppor­
tunity by placing more penny ma­
chines on their routes. Tips and
Topics advised that such machines
could be used to advantage as an
opening wedge in placing other ma­
chines, because when a location sees
what a penny machine will earn, it
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C. D. Fairchild, Inc., of Syracuse,
N. Y., announced the first offering
of its Junior Basket-Ball game on a
territorial basis.
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Marble venders were being offered
by Penn Novelty Sales Co., of Phila­
delphia, Pa. The new 1930 Lucky
Boy marble vender, all chromium
plated, vended 2, 3 and five-cent
marbles for 1 cent.
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Automaten-Fabrik, of Berlin, Ger­
many, was advertising its automatic
vendors for cigarettes, candy and
ball gum.
It also manufactured
personal weighing machines with
check issue, with or without electric
mitor.
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O.
D. Jennings & Co. brought out
their Favorite Gumbal Vender. It
was a pin board target amusement
device which vended gum and allowed
player to try his luck in dropping his
penny in various apertures.
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The Nicholson Clock Co., of Tulsa,
Okla., introduced its “Nick of Time”
candy machines. These were equipped
with electric flasher signs and had a
capacity of one hundred bars of six
different brands.
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The Coin Machine Operator’s As­
Jack-pot attachments for Caille
sociation of New England elected
officers and directors for another machines were being offered by
year. The meeting was held at the Jacobs Novelty Co. of Stevens Point,
plant of the First National Sand­ Wis.
wich Shops, Boston, and the follow­
ing were elected:
A F ootball Star
H.
E. Anderson, president; E. L.
Morris, 1st vice-president; W. C.
Brown, 2nd vice-president; J. S.
Berch, secretary-treasurer; David S.
Bond, A. H. Chandler, Beni. Krasoffi,
Harry Segall,
Fred O. Smith,
directors.
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The first prosecution under the Act
of 1923 prohibiting the removal or
defacement of the serial numbers on
any machine or apparatus for the
purpose of concealing the identity of
the manufacturer of such machine,
was started in Philadelphia.
The prosecution was brought by a
representative of the A. B. T. Com­
pany of Chicago, manufacturers of
vending machines. Witnesses for the
concern testified that the operator has
placed one of their machines at
Forty-Fifth Street and Woodland
Avenue, which had the serial number
removed.
It was further testified
that three other machines had been
located on which the serial numbers
had been removed or defaced.
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