Presto
Issue: 1920 1763 - Page 26
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PRESTO
ACTIVE NEW MEXICO DEALER
B. B. Ginsberg, with the Starr Phonograph and Gen-
nett Records, Has Achieved Success.
The Piano Sales Co., Roswell, N. M., an exclusive
music house in the center of the Pecos Valley, has
placed a great number of Starr phonographs in the
homes of the thrifty people there. In an advertise-
ment in the Roswell newspapers this week the com-
pany states:
"This company studied the phonograph situation
a long time before placing themselves, as repre-
sentatives, for any machine, and, finally, after much
consideration and comparison, they chose the Starr
phonograph, the instrument with the singing throat
which plays all records without any extra attachments,
made by the Starr Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., a
house which has been building musical instruments
for over 50 years.
"In taking on the representation of phonographs,
it became necessary to also add a line of records,
and since taking on the Gennett record library, and
keeping up with all the latest productions, the gen-
eral public have come to look upon Gennett as rep-
resenting the highest quality of reproduction, re-
gardless of the character of the music'
The Piano Sales Co. is located in the Allison
Building on West Third street, in the heart of the
business district. B. B. Ginsberg is the manager.
ENLARGES PHONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
Hickey's Lyceum Music Store, Ithaca, N. Y., which
has added the store adjoining to the talking machine
department of its business, this week installed three
new demonstration booths. Fred T. Wilcox, who
has returned from a trip abroad, is again in charge
of this department.
THE NEW BALTIMORE PLANT.
The Columbia Graphophone Company will employ
24,000 men and women in its Orangeville plant when
it is completed. Orangeville is in the eastern part
of the city of Baltimore, Md. T. C. Roberts, general
superintendent, said last week that the company has
already engaged 200 engineers to work on the plans,
and the complete graphophone, by the unit pro-
gramme of construction, can be turned out at the
DETERLING
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive
goods. Write us.
for
May 8, 1920.
plant. It will be the largest employing plant in Bal-
timore. The first unit of the plant at Orangeville is
well under way. Frames and forms for concrete con-
struction work are up and almost ready for the ap- Des Moines Center of an Active Field of Sales in
plication of the concrete.
Talking Machines.
THE IOWA PHONOGRAPH FIELD
DEALER IMPROVES STORE.
The Frank J. Cowling Company, Mt. Carmel, 111.,
has just completed some splendid improvements in
its store, entirely redecorating the main floor show-
room, building a new and enlarged office across the
floor from its previous location, and at the rear of
the new office constructing a series of sound-proof
talking machine booths for the demonstration of
machines, records and music rolls.
These record rooms are finished in ivory enamel
and are artistic as well as comfortable and con-
venient, making it possible to give several simulta-
neous musical demonstrations. This tine new equip-
ment adds very much to the music department of
this firm and their service to the company's cus-
tomers.
OPENS NEW STORE.
On account of the increase in business in the music
department the New York Furniture Company,
Hoboken, N. J., has found it necessary to open an-
other store. This will be an exclusive music store
and will be known as the Nyfco Music Shop, 353
First street. The Nyfco Shop will carry a complete
line of Columbia Grafonolas, records, pianos, players
and music rolls. Monday each customer will receive
a handsome souvenir.
THE WAYNE OPERAPHONE
The Wayne Operaphone is the name of a nev;
machine manufactured by the William A. Waggon-
er Talking Machine Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. The
company, which was recently capitalized at $100,000,
has purchased six acres of ground in New Haven, a
suburb of Fort Wayne on which a factory one story
high and measuring 100x300 feet will be erected.
Two dry kilns and a heating plant will also be erect-
ed.
TO ADD PHONOGRAPHS.
A talking machine department will be one of the
new additions to the business of The Ignatz Fischer
Music House, Toledo, Ohio. The house, which was
established forty-four years ago is now owned by
Carl Fischer and-his sister, Alpha Fischer, son and
daughter of the founder, Ignatz.Fischer. The house
is famous all over the country for its sacred music
business.
The National Lamp Works of the General Elec-
tric Co., Cleveland, O., has installed talking ma-
chines in several departments.
L. A. Murray, exclusive Victor dealer, Davenport,
Iowa, recently sold a Jap Lac Period Victrola to
one of the prominent officials of the town. A photo
was taken of the instrument in the home and all of
Mr. Murray's salesmen carry a copy of it in their
sales outfit.
Miss Mary Carroll, for a number of years con-
nected with several of the prominent Victor dealers,
and lately of Baxter Piano Co., Des Moines, la., has
tendered her resignation. Miss Carroll will go West
for her health.
At a meeting in Des Moines April 21 of the officers
and executive committee of the Iowa Victor Dealers'
Association, the definite date of the fourth annual
convention was set for August 3. An interesting
program has been arranged which will take up the
entire day, and in the evening Mickel Bros. Co. will
tender the members and wives a banquet and dance
at Hotel Fort Des Moines.
.
A number of phonograph dealers have called on
Mickel Bros. Co. of Des Moines recently in an effort
to secure more goods. Among them were: Jos.
Britt, of the Crary Hardware Co., Boone, Iowa; L.
K. Spencer, of Harmony Hall, Iowa City, la.; John
D. Vance, of Vance Music Co., Mason City, la.; and
L. A. Murray, Davenport, la.
Galli Curci played to a 7,000 house in Des Moines,
la., recently and stirred up some wonderful business
for the sale of her records. Chase & West secured
the seat sale together with the program, and their
record sale on the day following the concert
amounted to 286. There are two other dealers in
Des Moines.
Paul Cushman, formerly manager of the Victrola
department of the Standard Furniture Co., Center-
ville, la., has resigned to accept a similar position
with the Red Cross Decorating Co., also of Center-
ville. Mr. Cushman is well known throughout the
state in connection with the work.
The John Boesch Co., Burlington, la., is conduct-
ing monthly concerts in connection with each open-
ing day for Victor records. Besides a seven-piece
orchestra to alternate the Victrola, the company also
secures a local singer for one or two numbers. Wal-
ter Stone, manager of the department, reports a
growing attendance.
R. S. Baas, proporietor of the Baas Music Shop,
Rock Island, HI., has just secured a new location on
the main thoroughfare for his exclusive Victor busi-
ness and will have his opening Sept. 1. The account
was formerly known as the Baxter Piano Co., of
which Mr. Baas was manager.
fine
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
TIPTON, IND.
PRESTO
Dealers who do not sell
Buyers' Guide
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph and
records which they sell
them.
THE WONDERFUL
"FAIRY" Phonograph Lamp
Truly « Work of Art. Scientifically Constructed
Sale* Unprecedented. Secure Agency Now.
T h e greatest
practical nov-
elty offered to
the Phonograph
trade—
Indispensable
to
dealers and salesmen
The
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
"FAIRY"
Phonograph
Lamp
"looks" and
" s p e a k s" for
Itself. In ap-
pearance luxur-
ious, It achieves
Its g r e a t e s t
triumph in its
tone.
A newly pat-
ented s o u n d
amplifying
chamber, radi-
cally differing
from the con-
ventional de-
signs, gives a
true m e l l o w
tone of volume
equalling that
of most ex-
pensive instru-
ments.
Electrically operated and equipped with a specially
designed invisible switch, regulator and tone modifier.
Let us tell how sales of the "FAIRY" have re-
quired our maximum output ever since its appear-
ance in 1918.
ENDLESS-GRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
4200-02 West Adorn* Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
It is a reliable book of ref-
erence in determining the
origin, make and standing of
any instrument.
The Presto
Buyers' Guide is filled with
the information which adds
strength
to a
salesman's
statement and removes all
doubt of his sensible claims
for the goods he sells.
=One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
Everybody's Talking About It!
Positively no other is like it— it has set a new
standard.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER CAN GET THEM
Packed 4 in a box lo retail at 10c; 100 boxes in a
display carton costs the dealer $6.00 net.
Write for full particulars aboui advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
Price: 50 Cents
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
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PRESTO
ACTIVE NEW MEXICO DEALER
B. B. Ginsberg, with the Starr Phonograph and Gen-
nett Records, Has Achieved Success.
The Piano Sales Co., Roswell, N. M., an exclusive
music house in the center of the Pecos Valley, has
placed a great number of Starr phonographs in the
homes of the thrifty people there. In an advertise-
ment in the Roswell newspapers this week the com-
pany states:
"This company studied the phonograph situation
a long time before placing themselves, as repre-
sentatives, for any machine, and, finally, after much
consideration and comparison, they chose the Starr
phonograph, the instrument with the singing throat
which plays all records without any extra attachments,
made by the Starr Piano Co., of Richmond, Ind., a
house which has been building musical instruments
for over 50 years.
"In taking on the representation of phonographs,
it became necessary to also add a line of records,
and since taking on the Gennett record library, and
keeping up with all the latest productions, the gen-
eral public have come to look upon Gennett as rep-
resenting the highest quality of reproduction, re-
gardless of the character of the music'
The Piano Sales Co. is located in the Allison
Building on West Third street, in the heart of the
business district. B. B. Ginsberg is the manager.
ENLARGES PHONOGRAPH DEPARTMENT.
Hickey's Lyceum Music Store, Ithaca, N. Y., which
has added the store adjoining to the talking machine
department of its business, this week installed three
new demonstration booths. Fred T. Wilcox, who
has returned from a trip abroad, is again in charge
of this department.
THE NEW BALTIMORE PLANT.
The Columbia Graphophone Company will employ
24,000 men and women in its Orangeville plant when
it is completed. Orangeville is in the eastern part
of the city of Baltimore, Md. T. C. Roberts, general
superintendent, said last week that the company has
already engaged 200 engineers to work on the plans,
and the complete graphophone, by the unit pro-
gramme of construction, can be turned out at the
DETERLING
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive
goods. Write us.
for
May 8, 1920.
plant. It will be the largest employing plant in Bal-
timore. The first unit of the plant at Orangeville is
well under way. Frames and forms for concrete con-
struction work are up and almost ready for the ap- Des Moines Center of an Active Field of Sales in
plication of the concrete.
Talking Machines.
THE IOWA PHONOGRAPH FIELD
DEALER IMPROVES STORE.
The Frank J. Cowling Company, Mt. Carmel, 111.,
has just completed some splendid improvements in
its store, entirely redecorating the main floor show-
room, building a new and enlarged office across the
floor from its previous location, and at the rear of
the new office constructing a series of sound-proof
talking machine booths for the demonstration of
machines, records and music rolls.
These record rooms are finished in ivory enamel
and are artistic as well as comfortable and con-
venient, making it possible to give several simulta-
neous musical demonstrations. This tine new equip-
ment adds very much to the music department of
this firm and their service to the company's cus-
tomers.
OPENS NEW STORE.
On account of the increase in business in the music
department the New York Furniture Company,
Hoboken, N. J., has found it necessary to open an-
other store. This will be an exclusive music store
and will be known as the Nyfco Music Shop, 353
First street. The Nyfco Shop will carry a complete
line of Columbia Grafonolas, records, pianos, players
and music rolls. Monday each customer will receive
a handsome souvenir.
THE WAYNE OPERAPHONE
The Wayne Operaphone is the name of a nev;
machine manufactured by the William A. Waggon-
er Talking Machine Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. The
company, which was recently capitalized at $100,000,
has purchased six acres of ground in New Haven, a
suburb of Fort Wayne on which a factory one story
high and measuring 100x300 feet will be erected.
Two dry kilns and a heating plant will also be erect-
ed.
TO ADD PHONOGRAPHS.
A talking machine department will be one of the
new additions to the business of The Ignatz Fischer
Music House, Toledo, Ohio. The house, which was
established forty-four years ago is now owned by
Carl Fischer and-his sister, Alpha Fischer, son and
daughter of the founder, Ignatz.Fischer. The house
is famous all over the country for its sacred music
business.
The National Lamp Works of the General Elec-
tric Co., Cleveland, O., has installed talking ma-
chines in several departments.
L. A. Murray, exclusive Victor dealer, Davenport,
Iowa, recently sold a Jap Lac Period Victrola to
one of the prominent officials of the town. A photo
was taken of the instrument in the home and all of
Mr. Murray's salesmen carry a copy of it in their
sales outfit.
Miss Mary Carroll, for a number of years con-
nected with several of the prominent Victor dealers,
and lately of Baxter Piano Co., Des Moines, la., has
tendered her resignation. Miss Carroll will go West
for her health.
At a meeting in Des Moines April 21 of the officers
and executive committee of the Iowa Victor Dealers'
Association, the definite date of the fourth annual
convention was set for August 3. An interesting
program has been arranged which will take up the
entire day, and in the evening Mickel Bros. Co. will
tender the members and wives a banquet and dance
at Hotel Fort Des Moines.
.
A number of phonograph dealers have called on
Mickel Bros. Co. of Des Moines recently in an effort
to secure more goods. Among them were: Jos.
Britt, of the Crary Hardware Co., Boone, Iowa; L.
K. Spencer, of Harmony Hall, Iowa City, la.; John
D. Vance, of Vance Music Co., Mason City, la.; and
L. A. Murray, Davenport, la.
Galli Curci played to a 7,000 house in Des Moines,
la., recently and stirred up some wonderful business
for the sale of her records. Chase & West secured
the seat sale together with the program, and their
record sale on the day following the concert
amounted to 286. There are two other dealers in
Des Moines.
Paul Cushman, formerly manager of the Victrola
department of the Standard Furniture Co., Center-
ville, la., has resigned to accept a similar position
with the Red Cross Decorating Co., also of Center-
ville. Mr. Cushman is well known throughout the
state in connection with the work.
The John Boesch Co., Burlington, la., is conduct-
ing monthly concerts in connection with each open-
ing day for Victor records. Besides a seven-piece
orchestra to alternate the Victrola, the company also
secures a local singer for one or two numbers. Wal-
ter Stone, manager of the department, reports a
growing attendance.
R. S. Baas, proporietor of the Baas Music Shop,
Rock Island, HI., has just secured a new location on
the main thoroughfare for his exclusive Victor busi-
ness and will have his opening Sept. 1. The account
was formerly known as the Baxter Piano Co., of
which Mr. Baas was manager.
fine
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
TIPTON, IND.
PRESTO
Dealers who do not sell
Buyers' Guide
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph and
records which they sell
them.
THE WONDERFUL
"FAIRY" Phonograph Lamp
Truly « Work of Art. Scientifically Constructed
Sale* Unprecedented. Secure Agency Now.
T h e greatest
practical nov-
elty offered to
the Phonograph
trade—
Indispensable
to
dealers and salesmen
The
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
"FAIRY"
Phonograph
Lamp
"looks" and
" s p e a k s" for
Itself. In ap-
pearance luxur-
ious, It achieves
Its g r e a t e s t
triumph in its
tone.
A newly pat-
ented s o u n d
amplifying
chamber, radi-
cally differing
from the con-
ventional de-
signs, gives a
true m e l l o w
tone of volume
equalling that
of most ex-
pensive instru-
ments.
Electrically operated and equipped with a specially
designed invisible switch, regulator and tone modifier.
Let us tell how sales of the "FAIRY" have re-
quired our maximum output ever since its appear-
ance in 1918.
ENDLESS-GRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY
4200-02 West Adorn* Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
It is a reliable book of ref-
erence in determining the
origin, make and standing of
any instrument.
The Presto
Buyers' Guide is filled with
the information which adds
strength
to a
salesman's
statement and removes all
doubt of his sensible claims
for the goods he sells.
=One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
Everybody's Talking About It!
Positively no other is like it— it has set a new
standard.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER CAN GET THEM
Packed 4 in a box lo retail at 10c; 100 boxes in a
display carton costs the dealer $6.00 net.
Write for full particulars aboui advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
Price: 50 Cents
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
Enhanced content © 2008-2009 and presented by MBSI - The Musical Box Society International (www.mbsi.org) and the International Arcade Museum (www.arcade-museum.com).
All Rights Reserved. Digitized from the archives of the MBSI with support from NAMM - The International Music Products Association (www.namm.org).
Additional enhancement, optimization, and distribution by the International Arcade Museum. An extensive collection of Presto can be found online at http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).