Automatic Age

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOMATIC AGE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 16
O C T O B E R , 1939
No. 3
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS WITH THE EDITOR---------- 13
TEN YEARS AGO IN THE COIN MACHINE
INDUSTRY --------- ----------- ---------14
O. C. LIGHTNER
President
SEE RECORD BREAKING SHOW
CMI Boasts 80 Members; Gilmore and
Committees Busy Arranging 1940 Show--------16
SHOP AND SHOWROOM
A News Review of The New Coin
Machine Products --------- ----------- 18-19
THE TWO CENT TAX ON CIGARETTES IN
WISCONSIN AND ITS EFFECT ON THE OPERATOR
By Mack H. Postel ----------------- -----29
CARROLL E. VETTERICK
Editor—Adv. Director
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Better Salesmanship Vital to Future
Operating Success, Says Jack Kelner----------33
CIGARETTE SMOKE RINGS
By James Cherry ------ --------- ------35
MARTIN J. MRAZ
Ass’t. Editor
THE LEGAL OUTLOOK__________________________39
ON THE RECORD---------- -------------- 60
FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY____________________ ____72
NEW PATENTS
By Ken C. Shyvers ----- --------------- —74
Staff Contributors:
ODD FACTS—UNUSUAL EVENTS ________________-86
JOHN GOODBODY
CLASSIFIED COIN MACHINE DIRECTORY______ 93-96
KEN SHYVERS
CLASSIFIED COIN MACHINE EXCHANGE______ 97-98
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