Presto

July 10, 1920.
PRESTO
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Dealers who do not sell
TONOFONE
deny to their customers
their undeniable right to
the full enjoyment of
the phonograph and
records which they sell
them.
Paragon Piano Plates
Absolutely Dependable
Best of Service
Western manufacturers find that our facilities
and experience afford the best source of supplies.
Get Your Plates From Oregon
PLAYS ALL RECORDS ON ANY PHONOGRAPH
;
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.
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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 to retail at I0c;100 boxes in a
display carton costs the dealer $6.00 net.
Write for full particulars about advertising helps and the name of the
nearest distributor.
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
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CHICAGO
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
OREGON, ILL.
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
E. KOPRIWA CO.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Ave.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
L C. W1SWELL NOW PRESIDENT
THE WONDERFUL
"FAIRY" Phonograph Lamp
Truly a Work of Art. Scientifically Constructed
Salem Unprecedented. Secure Agency Now.
T h e greatest
practical nov-
elty offered to
the Phonograph
trade—
The
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FAIRY"
Phonograph
Lamp
"looks" and
" s p e a k a" 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 Adams Street
CHICAGO, ILL.
DETERLING
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive for fine
goods. Write us.
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
ITIPTON, IND.
ISSUES NEW STOCK.
At a special meeting of the stockholders of the
General Phonograph Corporation, Boston, the is-
suance of 230,000 shares of stock was authorized, in-
cluding 200,000 shares of common and 30,000 pre-
ferred.
Chicago Man at Annual Convention Made Head of
National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers.
L. C. Wiswell, head of the talking machine depart-
ment of Lyon & Healy, Chicago, was elected presi-
dent of the National Association of Talking Machine
Jobbers at the fourteenth annual convention at the
Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, last week. The
other officers elected were: Louis N. Buehn, Phila-
delphia, vice-president; A. A. Troftler, Kansas City,
secretary, and W. H. Reynolds, Mobile, treasurer.
The new executive committee comprises these offi-
cers and Frank Davisson, Columbus, O.; J. N. Black-
man, New York; Joseph Roush, Pittsburgh; Thomas
Green, New York; E. C. Rauth, St. Louis; G. E.
Mickel, Omaha; D. A. Creed, Chicago; C. K. Ben-
nett, Cleveland; H. Winkleman, Boston; Lester
Burchneld, Dallas, and Fred Putnam, Peoria.
APPROVE OF LABOR COURTS
National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers
Unanimously Uphold Special Tribunals.
At the session of the annual convention of the
National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers,
in Atlantic City, N. J., recently the principle enunci-
ated at the convention of the Chambers of Com-
merce of the United States, that a special tribunal
should be created by all the states to settle contro-
versies between employers and employes by ad-
judication, was unanimously upheld.
The jobbers also supported a proposition that
"strikes by employes of all public service corpora-
tions performing service essential to lives, health, se-
curity, comfort and well-being of the people, should,
by law, be explicitly prohibited." Endorsement was
also given a declaration of the committee of the Na-
tional Chamber of Commerce that '"every person
possesses the right to engage in any lawful business
or occupation and to enter, individually or collec-
tively, into any lawful contract of employment,
either as employer or employe, these rights subject
in limitation only through valid exercise and public
authority."
Affirmative action also was taken upon affirmation
of "right of the open shop operation, that is, that the
right of the employer and employe to enter into and
determine the conditions of employment relations
with each other, is an essential part of individual
right of contract possessed by each of the parties."
Harry Goldsmith and Clarence Price had charge
of the convention banquet, which was held in the
Rose Room of the Traymore. Eldridge R. Johnson,
of Philadelphia, president, and other officers and di-
rectors of the Victor Talking Machine Co., with
their families, were guests of the jobbers' Associa-
tion at a reception, dinner and dance.
THE V1TAN0LA COMPANY
Stability of One of the Talking Machines as Seen
by Financial Expert.
The financial editor of the Chicago Tribune last
Sunday gave the following answer to the request of
a correspondent for an estimate of the responsibility
of the Vitanola Talking Machine Company, of Chi-
cago:
The Vitanola Talking Machine Company was in-
corporated in Illinois four years ago. It has re-
cently increased its authorized capital stock to $56Q*»
000 of preferred and 50,000 no par shares of com-
mon. It also is authorized to issue $300,000 of first
mortgage bonds. The balance sheet of March 31,
after giving effect to the new financing, shows all
the stock and bonds outstanding and tangible assets
amounting to $17.18 to each share of common stock
after allowing $100 a share for preferred. Earnings
in the first quarter of this year were $49,488. In
1919 $317,440 was earned. The stock represents an
interest in a business venture which is not seasoned,
but has made good progress thus far.
SHAKESPEARE OF PHONOGRAPHS
One of the Recent Talking Machines Presents Fea-
tures Which Promise to Make It a Winner.
Every music dealer is a potential talking machine
dealer. Every music store is the logical "talking
machine shop" in the community. The piano houses
and the general music stores are best equipped to
handle phonographs. And one of the phonographs
which promises to find its way into the music stores,
where it will be profitable to the dealers, is the new
"Stratford," the "Shakespeare of Phonographs." The
Stratford is now being produced in increasing num-
bers by the Stratford Phonograph Company, of Ash-
land, Ohio.
The "Stratford" is, in some respects, "different."
It presents all of the customary attractions, with a
fine quality of reproducing tone, and its cases are
really beautiful. The sound box is one of the best,
and all records may be played with equal ease and
good results.
The president of the Stratford Phonograph Com-
pany is a former piano man. He understands the
art of salesmanship, as applied to the music trade.
He knows what the dealers want, and he is giving
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