Presto
Issue: 1920 1775 - Page 26
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July 31, 1920.
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
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
OREGON, I L L .
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
Everybody's Talking About It!
Positively no other is like it—it has set a new
standard.
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER CAN GET THEM
E. KOPRIWA CO.
Packed 4 in a box to retail at 10c; 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.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Aye.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
-
PORTLAND PHONOGRAPH TRADE
Items About Talking Machine Men in the Oregon
City and Their Business.
The Pacific Phonograph Co. is contemplating ex-
tending their export territory and will open a dis-
tributing agency at Lima, Peru.
Lipman, Wolfe & Co. have secured the agency for
the Sonora talking machine and also the Brunswick.
The Blumauer-Frank Drug Co. is doing a big
Stradivara business. Their territory, which includes
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, is show-
ing a big appreciation of the phonograph and new
accounts have been opened in Alaska.
The Pacific Phonograph Manufacturing Co. has
bought four more lots and the plant is now 490 feet
long. The present factory will be enlarged later
on. The newly acquired lots adjoin the factory.
-
CHICAGO
NOW READY
Phonograph Directory and Guide
The first complete Lists of all departments of the
industry and trade — manufacturers, supplies,
dealers and distributers — with descriptions of
the foremost instruments.
184 Pages=»Y0U WANT IT===25 Cents
PRESTO
PUBLISHING CO.
407 South Dearborn Street
CHICAGO
HYDE PARK'S BEAUTIFUL STORE.
One of the prettiest stores devoted to selling
musical instruments in the United States is located
on Fifty-third street, Chicago, near the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad tracks. It is the store of A. C. Fen-
"MASTER" MACHINE DEFUNCT.
"I LOVE YOU SUNDAY" DANCE
ton, who has tied up about $20,000 in fixtures and
By an inadvertence the name of the Master Talk-
fittings and is not through equipping it yet. He
styles it The Hyde Park Music Shop, and it is so ing Machine Co. is listed in Presto Trade Lists, No.
pretty that it is worth any musical instrument deal- 2. As a matter of fact, the Master Talking Machine Sensational Song Success to Appear Shortly on
Phonograph Record Releases.
er's while to go many miles just to see it. The Co. went out of business three years ago. The com-
floors of the whole shop are covered with a heavy pany was owned and started by members of the When a new song is featured by the leading or-
green carpet of rich design, the decorations are firm of Annin & Co., flag makers, 99 Fulton street, chestras and recorded for the best known phono-
artistically put on, and the place is luxuriously rest- New York. When the great war began the graph records, within a month after its publication,
ful. Mr. Fenton's specialty is phonographs, but he demand for Old Glory became so great that the it must have that indefinable quality that spells suc-
talking machine was soon abandoned. This infor-
also sells pianos and playerpianos.
mation comes to Presto from Louis Annin Ames, cess. "I Love You Sunday," published by Forster
whose
address is given as "Old Glory Corner," New Music Publisher, Chicago, appears to be a winner.
ATTACKED "HIS MASTER'S VOICE."
The leader of a famous dance orchestra who is
York.
A bull terrier strolling along Broadway in Port-
prominent in the phonograph world said: "It is in-
land, Oregon, happened to see the Victor dog—a
teresting to notice how "I Love You Sunday" puts
huge papier-mache animal—which stands in front
pep and snap into dancing when it is played for a
PLYMOUTH
PHONOGRAPH
CO.
of the Bush & Lane piano store. The terrier took
crowd. Frequently we are forced to respond to a
The Plymouth Phonograph Co., of Plymouth, dozen encores. There is something about the mel-
an immediate and violent dislike to the famous
canine and expressed his dislike in the usual bull Wis., has amended its corporate articles to provide ody that everyone seems to like."
terrier way by a direct and violent attack upon the for an increase in authorized capitalization from
A stranger in quest of the tintinnabulations of the
hated object. Only after forcible and effective $500,000 to $750,000. Part of the new issue will be merry saxophone wandered into the Edelweiss Gar-
measures had been applied would the bull terrier used to finance factory extensions now being made. dens in Chicago the other night and heard George
let go his hold upon the famous dog, which it finally These include new dry kilns with a capacity of 60,- Mallen's orchestra waft "I Love You Sunday" to a
released after being deluged with gallons of water. 000 feet of lumber; a two-story factory addition, dance in the approved stellar style of Mallen. At
50x75 feet, and a merchandise room, 60x75 feet. A the Rainbo Gardens Isham Jones and his harmony
new office building will also be provided. Besides aggregation dispensed the same sad, sweet strains
DON'T SELL PHONOGRAPHS.
-'• The Pathescope Co. of America, of 33 W. 43d its own factory, the Plymouth company absorbs and made a thousand auditors beg for more.
At the Green Mill Gardens, too, Paul Biese puts
street, New York, writes to Presto to say that con- the entire output of the Badger Cabinet Co., a large
his orchestra through "I Love You Sunday" so
cern doesn't handle phonographs. The industry is woodworking industry in Plymouth.
mellifluously that the waiters have hops in their
devoted to a branch of the moving picture industry,
heels and sway like palm trees on the shore of the
and the name of Pathe is so identified with talking
machines that the Pathescope Co. constantly re-
A charter was filed at Dover, Del., last week for Dead Sea. Consequently, if you want to know how
ceives correspondence from people interested in the incorporation of the Stradivara Phonograph successful the song really is, ask Charley Straight,
the composer and tickler of the ivories. He knows.
phonographs.
Company, Portland, Oregon; $4,000,000.
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July 31, 1920.
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
PARAGON FOUNDRIES COMPANY
One Needle Plays as many as 50 Records
Marvelous Tones
Wonderful Enunciation
Gets every tone without scratch or squeak—
will not injure finest record.
OREGON, I L L .
ARTISTIC CARVINGS
Everybody's Talking About It!
Positively no other is like it—it has set a new
standard.
for PIANO and PHONOGRAPH
Manufacturers
HIGH-GRADE CARVED
NOVELTIES
Lamps, Wall Brackets, Book Ends,
Pedestals, etc.
EVERY DEALER NEEDS TONOFONE
It helps to sell machines and records because it
plays them better.
EVERY DEALER CAN GET THEM
E. KOPRIWA CO.
Packed 4 in a box to retail at 10c; 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.
When in Chicago visit our showrooms
at the Factory
2220 Ward Street, near Clybourn Aye.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
-
PORTLAND PHONOGRAPH TRADE
Items About Talking Machine Men in the Oregon
City and Their Business.
The Pacific Phonograph Co. is contemplating ex-
tending their export territory and will open a dis-
tributing agency at Lima, Peru.
Lipman, Wolfe & Co. have secured the agency for
the Sonora talking machine and also the Brunswick.
The Blumauer-Frank Drug Co. is doing a big
Stradivara business. Their territory, which includes
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, is show-
ing a big appreciation of the phonograph and new
accounts have been opened in Alaska.
The Pacific Phonograph Manufacturing Co. has
bought four more lots and the plant is now 490 feet
long. The present factory will be enlarged later
on. The newly acquired lots adjoin the factory.
-
CHICAGO
NOW READY
Phonograph Directory and Guide
The first complete Lists of all departments of the
industry and trade — manufacturers, supplies,
dealers and distributers — with descriptions of
the foremost instruments.
184 Pages=»Y0U WANT IT===25 Cents
PRESTO
PUBLISHING CO.
407 South Dearborn Street
CHICAGO
HYDE PARK'S BEAUTIFUL STORE.
One of the prettiest stores devoted to selling
musical instruments in the United States is located
on Fifty-third street, Chicago, near the Illinois Cen-
tral Railroad tracks. It is the store of A. C. Fen-
"MASTER" MACHINE DEFUNCT.
"I LOVE YOU SUNDAY" DANCE
ton, who has tied up about $20,000 in fixtures and
By an inadvertence the name of the Master Talk-
fittings and is not through equipping it yet. He
styles it The Hyde Park Music Shop, and it is so ing Machine Co. is listed in Presto Trade Lists, No.
pretty that it is worth any musical instrument deal- 2. As a matter of fact, the Master Talking Machine Sensational Song Success to Appear Shortly on
Phonograph Record Releases.
er's while to go many miles just to see it. The Co. went out of business three years ago. The com-
floors of the whole shop are covered with a heavy pany was owned and started by members of the When a new song is featured by the leading or-
green carpet of rich design, the decorations are firm of Annin & Co., flag makers, 99 Fulton street, chestras and recorded for the best known phono-
artistically put on, and the place is luxuriously rest- New York. When the great war began the graph records, within a month after its publication,
ful. Mr. Fenton's specialty is phonographs, but he demand for Old Glory became so great that the it must have that indefinable quality that spells suc-
talking machine was soon abandoned. This infor-
also sells pianos and playerpianos.
mation comes to Presto from Louis Annin Ames, cess. "I Love You Sunday," published by Forster
whose
address is given as "Old Glory Corner," New Music Publisher, Chicago, appears to be a winner.
ATTACKED "HIS MASTER'S VOICE."
The leader of a famous dance orchestra who is
York.
A bull terrier strolling along Broadway in Port-
prominent in the phonograph world said: "It is in-
land, Oregon, happened to see the Victor dog—a
teresting to notice how "I Love You Sunday" puts
huge papier-mache animal—which stands in front
pep and snap into dancing when it is played for a
PLYMOUTH
PHONOGRAPH
CO.
of the Bush & Lane piano store. The terrier took
crowd. Frequently we are forced to respond to a
The Plymouth Phonograph Co., of Plymouth, dozen encores. There is something about the mel-
an immediate and violent dislike to the famous
canine and expressed his dislike in the usual bull Wis., has amended its corporate articles to provide ody that everyone seems to like."
terrier way by a direct and violent attack upon the for an increase in authorized capitalization from
A stranger in quest of the tintinnabulations of the
hated object. Only after forcible and effective $500,000 to $750,000. Part of the new issue will be merry saxophone wandered into the Edelweiss Gar-
measures had been applied would the bull terrier used to finance factory extensions now being made. dens in Chicago the other night and heard George
let go his hold upon the famous dog, which it finally These include new dry kilns with a capacity of 60,- Mallen's orchestra waft "I Love You Sunday" to a
released after being deluged with gallons of water. 000 feet of lumber; a two-story factory addition, dance in the approved stellar style of Mallen. At
50x75 feet, and a merchandise room, 60x75 feet. A the Rainbo Gardens Isham Jones and his harmony
new office building will also be provided. Besides aggregation dispensed the same sad, sweet strains
DON'T SELL PHONOGRAPHS.
-'• The Pathescope Co. of America, of 33 W. 43d its own factory, the Plymouth company absorbs and made a thousand auditors beg for more.
At the Green Mill Gardens, too, Paul Biese puts
street, New York, writes to Presto to say that con- the entire output of the Badger Cabinet Co., a large
his orchestra through "I Love You Sunday" so
cern doesn't handle phonographs. The industry is woodworking industry in Plymouth.
mellifluously that the waiters have hops in their
devoted to a branch of the moving picture industry,
heels and sway like palm trees on the shore of the
and the name of Pathe is so identified with talking
machines that the Pathescope Co. constantly re-
A charter was filed at Dover, Del., last week for Dead Sea. Consequently, if you want to know how
ceives correspondence from people interested in the incorporation of the Stradivara Phonograph successful the song really is, ask Charley Straight,
the composer and tickler of the ivories. He knows.
phonographs.
Company, Portland, Oregon; $4,000,000.
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).