Presto
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August 21, 1920.
THE PRESTO'S WANT ADVS.
AN I N V E S T M E N T O P P O R T U N I T Y .
TUNER WANTED.
WANTED—Seme party or parties with some capital.
W A N T E D — A good tuner and player repairman at once
Practical men preferred who can take active position
in Indiana, town of 22,000. Steady position for the
or live-wire dealers wishing to make a sane invest,
right man. Address Box 66, Presto Office, Chicago.
merit, to assist and organize a large western piano
factory. Present parties interested have extra fine
SALESMAN W A N T E D .
tone
scale. Materials and patterns are practical and
Splendid opening, permanent position and advancement
up-to-date. Have some good points suitable for loca-
for live wire piano and phonograph salesman in
tion, with reliable assurance to dispose of all stock
branch store of one of leading manufacturers of
once organized. Address "Western Factory," care
pianos, playerpianos and phonographs in the country.
PRESTO, Chicago.
Fast growing city, Michigan, of 35,000 with biggest
automobile industry in U. S. just being established
at its doors. Must be good closer. Salary and com-
Y O U N G MAN'S C H A N C E .
mission paid with large income assured to energetic
WANTED—Young man with stenographic and clerical
worker. Address Manager, Box 79, care Presto.
experience in general office of leading piano manu-
facturing concern. Good chance to advance as fast as
PHONOGRAPH SALESMEN W A N T E D .
capable. Address " M . J. E.," care PRESTO.
Salesmen calling on dealers can add to their income by
handling harmonola Phonographs as a side line.
Liberal commission. Address Harmonola Phonograph
PIANO SALESMAN W A N T E D .
Co., 2912 W . Lake St., Chicago.
Good opportunity for the right man for advancement.
Store located in a large city in the state of Wisconsin.
Address "Opportunity," care PRESTO.
MANAGER W A N T E D .
SALESMAN-MANAGER—Opportunity for a live young
man to manage piano department for a successful
S P L E N D I D O P P O R T U N I T Y FOR S A L E S M A N .
middle west music store. Address Box K-36, Presto
Closer wanted at our retail store in a city of 500,000 in-
Office, Chicago.
habitants.
State age and experience.
Address
"Closer," care PRESTO.
MANAGERS A N D S A L E S M E N .
P R O M I N E N T manufacturer working closely with dealers
TUNER A N D SALESMEN.
in the Central States has opportunity to advan-
tageously place several good salesmen. A few man- W A N T E D — T u n e r familiar with player-pianos; also piano
salesmen.
Cable Piano Co., 604 S. Saginaw St., Flint,
agerial positions open. Hlease reply stating full par-
Mich.
ticulars of your experience, also salary expected. Ad-
dress K-43, Presto Office, Chicago.
TRAVELER WANTED.
BUSINESS O P P O R T U N I T Y .
W A N T E D — H i g h grade traveling representative In each
FOR SALE—An old established music business. Owner
state, to sell one of the best known lines of player-
wants to retire. Located in the richest valley in
pianos, on a commission basis. Give full Information
California; good town. Address I. N. Rice, Des-
with first letter. None but men of high standing and
plaines, III.
exceptional ability will be considered. Apply "Ability,"
care PRESTO.
T U N E R A N D SALESMAN.
PLAYER SALESMAN A N D T R O U B L E M A N .
W A N T E D — T u n e r and repair man; also one salesman.
W A N T E D — Well known manufacturer of high grade
Steady position to the right men with the largest
player-pianos
desires services of young man thor-
house in Northeast Iowa. Mueller Music House,
oughly familiar with player-piano mechanics who
Elkader, Iowa.
can do everything in repairing, tuning and regulating
and has the personality and business qualities neces-
SALES DIRECTOR W A N T E D .
sary for wholesale salesman. Good opportunity. A d -
W A N T E D — H i g h grade man to direct sales and assist
dress "Trouble Man," care PRESTO, Chicago.
the retail piano dealer; %ne who can select and han-
dle salesmen in a big and businesslike campaign.
T U N E R A N D PLAYER M A N .
State experience and salary wanted. Manufacturer.
Address " E . M. E.," care PRESTO.
WANTED—Experienced tuner and player man with some
salesmanship ability. We are located in a Wisconsin
city of 40,000. State salary wanted, experience and
S H E E T MUSIC MANAGER.
reference in first letter. Address "Oshkosh," care
WANTED—Experienced sheet music manager; one who
PRESTO Publishing Co., Chicago.
Is familiar with buying and has counter experience;
in a city of 175,000 population in the South; well
established business; permanent position; references
FACTORY S U P E R I N T E N D E N T .
required. Address "Sheet Music," care of PRESTO.
WANTED—Position as superintendent; one who has had
25 years' experience and has worked at most all
branches of the business. Is now employed, but
TO PIANO M A N U F A C T U R E R S .
wishes to make a change. Am not an office man, but
A married man, 42 years of age, wjth family, who has
spend all my time in the factory looking after things.
had 23 years' constant experience in the piano busi-
Address "Factory Man," care PRESTO, Chicago.
ness, including retail, special sale, floor, wholesale
and managerial, desires to get in touch with a piano
manufacturer, or corporation, handling at least three
SALES R E P R E S E N T A T I V E
or four different grades of pianos and players, who
Wanted in each state by old established manufacturer to
will furnish goods and maintain overhead expenses
of a store in a town of £0,000 population located in
handle high grade talking machines as a side line on
one of the wealthiest sections of the middle west.
a liberal commissicn basis. Address Box 28, care
Am at present field manager for my employer and
PRESTO Publishing Co., 407 S. Dearborn St., Chi-
can submit a proposition to parties interested which
cago.
will net from eight to ten thousand dollars per year.
For particulars address Field Manager, care Presto.
F I F T Y - F I F T Y SALESMAN.
Can you go to the farmer and sell him a piano? Are you
PLAYER EXPERT WANTS OPPORTUNITY.
willing to work. I have a live store, thoroughly es-
Player man is desirous of corresponding with some
tablished, in central Wisconsin, selling jewelry, pianos
manufacturer who may be interested in producing
and phonographs. I am willing to split profits with a
his own player-pianos. The advertiser is a "oung
hustler who can take over the managing and selling
man, thoroughly schooled in the work, now employed,
of the music end of the business. I can finance all
but ambitious to create, or help to improve, in his
you can sell. Answer "Box 15," care PRESTO, Chi-
line of work. Will give expert and local service.
cago.
Address Lincoln, care Presto, Chicago.
FACTORY T U N E R S , A T T E N T I O N '
SALESMAN'S O P P O R T U N I T Y .
Attention, factory tuners who want to learn player con-
We need a man who can go unaided and close the deal.
struction.
Paid while learning.
Apply "Player-
Hundreds of good leads—all new. W e will consider
Tuner," care PRESTO.
only high-class closer who knows the game, and for
this man we have an attractive offer and permanent
place in city of 30,000. State age and experience. A d -
aress " T . , " care PRESTO.
SALES POSITION W A N T E D .
Sales Manager, at present connected with eastern piano
and Columbia house, would like to make good con-
nection with some concern on the Pacific Coast, pref-
erably Los Angeles or Frisco; 33 years of age, with
13 years' clean-cut, successful record in the retail
piano field as salesman, sales manager and manager.
Address Pacific Coast, care PRESTO.
PIANOS W A N T E D .
PIANOS W A N T E D — F o r 80 acres of land located about
12 to 14 miles southwest of Mammoth Springs, Ark.
This 80 is clear of debt, good title and will make a
good chicken and hog ranch when timber is cleared
off. It is unimproved. Mild climate to live in, great
fruit country. My price is $2,000.00. Will trade this
clear for new standard-make pianos.
What have
you? Describe same. Address: P. O. Box 408, Had-
dam, Kan.
MUSIC STORE W A N T E D .
W A N T E D — T o buy music store in town about 3,000, Mln-
necota, Iowa or Wisconsin. Address G. P., care Presto.
P L A Y E R ACTION W O R K E R S .
H Z L P W A N T E D — P i a n o Player Action Mechanics with
factory experience. Assemblers, testers, pneumatic
men.
Good wages and inducement to move. Tele-
phone us, 7512, at Racine, our expense. S:ott Player
Ac*ior Co., Racine, Wisconsin.
MUSIC STORE FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—Good all around music store, handling every-
thing in the music line, for sale in a thriving western
community. The only music store in this half of the
state. Very gocd climate for a tubercular or sickly
person. Fifty derricks now erected drilling for oil.
Prospects wonderful. Good reason for selling. Act at
once. Address communications to "Music Store," care
PRESTO.
SALESMAN W A N T E D .
W A N T E D — A high-grade salesman, a good closer, and
one capable of handling outside men. Apply to C. B.
Noon, vice-president and general manager of the
Kranz-Smith Piano Co., Baltimore, Md.
CHICKERING IN DALLAS.
The Ampico in the Chickering is continuously
and ably featured by the Will A. Watkin Co., Dal-
las, Tex., Chickering representative for north Texas.
''As the Chickering is to the pianist, so it is to the
Ampico," is the statement in the advertising. "In-
vestigate the 'Watkin Way' of selling" is the invi-
tation continuously printed by the firm, which has
a rigid one-price policy among other principles of
an admirably managed business. The fine warerooms
of the Will A. Watkin Co. are at 1207 Elm street.
NEW FIRM BUSY.
Rhodes & Buchanan, the new firm in Metropolis,
111., in which Charles Rhodes and Louis Buchanan
are the principals, report an excellent business for
July. The two active piano men have bought out
the interests of W. P. Baynes in the O. D. Mc-
Laughlin Piano Co. and have added many new in-
struments to the piano and the playerpiano stock.
Metropolis is a growing town in the southern part
of Massac county. Busy factories with long pay
rolls will provide the piano prospects for the new
fit m.
OPENS IN GOODLAND, KANS.
Charles Kolacny is a live salesman who recently
opened a complete music store in Goodland, Kan-
sas. Mr. Kolacny will carry a complete line of
phonographs, records, sheet music and music rolls,
and all kinds of small musical instruments, novel-
ties and accessories of a musical nature. It is
Goodland's first exclusive music store.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
TRADE MARK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer ol
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Are.
NEW YORK
W. P. HAINES & CO.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
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August 21, 1920.
THE PRESTO'S WANT ADVS.
AN I N V E S T M E N T O P P O R T U N I T Y .
TUNER WANTED.
WANTED—Seme party or parties with some capital.
W A N T E D — A good tuner and player repairman at once
Practical men preferred who can take active position
in Indiana, town of 22,000. Steady position for the
or live-wire dealers wishing to make a sane invest,
right man. Address Box 66, Presto Office, Chicago.
merit, to assist and organize a large western piano
factory. Present parties interested have extra fine
SALESMAN W A N T E D .
tone
scale. Materials and patterns are practical and
Splendid opening, permanent position and advancement
up-to-date. Have some good points suitable for loca-
for live wire piano and phonograph salesman in
tion, with reliable assurance to dispose of all stock
branch store of one of leading manufacturers of
once organized. Address "Western Factory," care
pianos, playerpianos and phonographs in the country.
PRESTO, Chicago.
Fast growing city, Michigan, of 35,000 with biggest
automobile industry in U. S. just being established
at its doors. Must be good closer. Salary and com-
Y O U N G MAN'S C H A N C E .
mission paid with large income assured to energetic
WANTED—Young man with stenographic and clerical
worker. Address Manager, Box 79, care Presto.
experience in general office of leading piano manu-
facturing concern. Good chance to advance as fast as
PHONOGRAPH SALESMEN W A N T E D .
capable. Address " M . J. E.," care PRESTO.
Salesmen calling on dealers can add to their income by
handling harmonola Phonographs as a side line.
Liberal commission. Address Harmonola Phonograph
PIANO SALESMAN W A N T E D .
Co., 2912 W . Lake St., Chicago.
Good opportunity for the right man for advancement.
Store located in a large city in the state of Wisconsin.
Address "Opportunity," care PRESTO.
MANAGER W A N T E D .
SALESMAN-MANAGER—Opportunity for a live young
man to manage piano department for a successful
S P L E N D I D O P P O R T U N I T Y FOR S A L E S M A N .
middle west music store. Address Box K-36, Presto
Closer wanted at our retail store in a city of 500,000 in-
Office, Chicago.
habitants.
State age and experience.
Address
"Closer," care PRESTO.
MANAGERS A N D S A L E S M E N .
P R O M I N E N T manufacturer working closely with dealers
TUNER A N D SALESMEN.
in the Central States has opportunity to advan-
tageously place several good salesmen. A few man- W A N T E D — T u n e r familiar with player-pianos; also piano
salesmen.
Cable Piano Co., 604 S. Saginaw St., Flint,
agerial positions open. Hlease reply stating full par-
Mich.
ticulars of your experience, also salary expected. Ad-
dress K-43, Presto Office, Chicago.
TRAVELER WANTED.
BUSINESS O P P O R T U N I T Y .
W A N T E D — H i g h grade traveling representative In each
FOR SALE—An old established music business. Owner
state, to sell one of the best known lines of player-
wants to retire. Located in the richest valley in
pianos, on a commission basis. Give full Information
California; good town. Address I. N. Rice, Des-
with first letter. None but men of high standing and
plaines, III.
exceptional ability will be considered. Apply "Ability,"
care PRESTO.
T U N E R A N D SALESMAN.
PLAYER SALESMAN A N D T R O U B L E M A N .
W A N T E D — T u n e r and repair man; also one salesman.
W A N T E D — Well known manufacturer of high grade
Steady position to the right men with the largest
player-pianos
desires services of young man thor-
house in Northeast Iowa. Mueller Music House,
oughly familiar with player-piano mechanics who
Elkader, Iowa.
can do everything in repairing, tuning and regulating
and has the personality and business qualities neces-
SALES DIRECTOR W A N T E D .
sary for wholesale salesman. Good opportunity. A d -
W A N T E D — H i g h grade man to direct sales and assist
dress "Trouble Man," care PRESTO, Chicago.
the retail piano dealer; %ne who can select and han-
dle salesmen in a big and businesslike campaign.
T U N E R A N D PLAYER M A N .
State experience and salary wanted. Manufacturer.
Address " E . M. E.," care PRESTO.
WANTED—Experienced tuner and player man with some
salesmanship ability. We are located in a Wisconsin
city of 40,000. State salary wanted, experience and
S H E E T MUSIC MANAGER.
reference in first letter. Address "Oshkosh," care
WANTED—Experienced sheet music manager; one who
PRESTO Publishing Co., Chicago.
Is familiar with buying and has counter experience;
in a city of 175,000 population in the South; well
established business; permanent position; references
FACTORY S U P E R I N T E N D E N T .
required. Address "Sheet Music," care of PRESTO.
WANTED—Position as superintendent; one who has had
25 years' experience and has worked at most all
branches of the business. Is now employed, but
TO PIANO M A N U F A C T U R E R S .
wishes to make a change. Am not an office man, but
A married man, 42 years of age, wjth family, who has
spend all my time in the factory looking after things.
had 23 years' constant experience in the piano busi-
Address "Factory Man," care PRESTO, Chicago.
ness, including retail, special sale, floor, wholesale
and managerial, desires to get in touch with a piano
manufacturer, or corporation, handling at least three
SALES R E P R E S E N T A T I V E
or four different grades of pianos and players, who
Wanted in each state by old established manufacturer to
will furnish goods and maintain overhead expenses
of a store in a town of £0,000 population located in
handle high grade talking machines as a side line on
one of the wealthiest sections of the middle west.
a liberal commissicn basis. Address Box 28, care
Am at present field manager for my employer and
PRESTO Publishing Co., 407 S. Dearborn St., Chi-
can submit a proposition to parties interested which
cago.
will net from eight to ten thousand dollars per year.
For particulars address Field Manager, care Presto.
F I F T Y - F I F T Y SALESMAN.
Can you go to the farmer and sell him a piano? Are you
PLAYER EXPERT WANTS OPPORTUNITY.
willing to work. I have a live store, thoroughly es-
Player man is desirous of corresponding with some
tablished, in central Wisconsin, selling jewelry, pianos
manufacturer who may be interested in producing
and phonographs. I am willing to split profits with a
his own player-pianos. The advertiser is a "oung
hustler who can take over the managing and selling
man, thoroughly schooled in the work, now employed,
of the music end of the business. I can finance all
but ambitious to create, or help to improve, in his
you can sell. Answer "Box 15," care PRESTO, Chi-
line of work. Will give expert and local service.
cago.
Address Lincoln, care Presto, Chicago.
FACTORY T U N E R S , A T T E N T I O N '
SALESMAN'S O P P O R T U N I T Y .
Attention, factory tuners who want to learn player con-
We need a man who can go unaided and close the deal.
struction.
Paid while learning.
Apply "Player-
Hundreds of good leads—all new. W e will consider
Tuner," care PRESTO.
only high-class closer who knows the game, and for
this man we have an attractive offer and permanent
place in city of 30,000. State age and experience. A d -
aress " T . , " care PRESTO.
SALES POSITION W A N T E D .
Sales Manager, at present connected with eastern piano
and Columbia house, would like to make good con-
nection with some concern on the Pacific Coast, pref-
erably Los Angeles or Frisco; 33 years of age, with
13 years' clean-cut, successful record in the retail
piano field as salesman, sales manager and manager.
Address Pacific Coast, care PRESTO.
PIANOS W A N T E D .
PIANOS W A N T E D — F o r 80 acres of land located about
12 to 14 miles southwest of Mammoth Springs, Ark.
This 80 is clear of debt, good title and will make a
good chicken and hog ranch when timber is cleared
off. It is unimproved. Mild climate to live in, great
fruit country. My price is $2,000.00. Will trade this
clear for new standard-make pianos.
What have
you? Describe same. Address: P. O. Box 408, Had-
dam, Kan.
MUSIC STORE W A N T E D .
W A N T E D — T o buy music store in town about 3,000, Mln-
necota, Iowa or Wisconsin. Address G. P., care Presto.
P L A Y E R ACTION W O R K E R S .
H Z L P W A N T E D — P i a n o Player Action Mechanics with
factory experience. Assemblers, testers, pneumatic
men.
Good wages and inducement to move. Tele-
phone us, 7512, at Racine, our expense. S:ott Player
Ac*ior Co., Racine, Wisconsin.
MUSIC STORE FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—Good all around music store, handling every-
thing in the music line, for sale in a thriving western
community. The only music store in this half of the
state. Very gocd climate for a tubercular or sickly
person. Fifty derricks now erected drilling for oil.
Prospects wonderful. Good reason for selling. Act at
once. Address communications to "Music Store," care
PRESTO.
SALESMAN W A N T E D .
W A N T E D — A high-grade salesman, a good closer, and
one capable of handling outside men. Apply to C. B.
Noon, vice-president and general manager of the
Kranz-Smith Piano Co., Baltimore, Md.
CHICKERING IN DALLAS.
The Ampico in the Chickering is continuously
and ably featured by the Will A. Watkin Co., Dal-
las, Tex., Chickering representative for north Texas.
''As the Chickering is to the pianist, so it is to the
Ampico," is the statement in the advertising. "In-
vestigate the 'Watkin Way' of selling" is the invi-
tation continuously printed by the firm, which has
a rigid one-price policy among other principles of
an admirably managed business. The fine warerooms
of the Will A. Watkin Co. are at 1207 Elm street.
NEW FIRM BUSY.
Rhodes & Buchanan, the new firm in Metropolis,
111., in which Charles Rhodes and Louis Buchanan
are the principals, report an excellent business for
July. The two active piano men have bought out
the interests of W. P. Baynes in the O. D. Mc-
Laughlin Piano Co. and have added many new in-
struments to the piano and the playerpiano stock.
Metropolis is a growing town in the southern part
of Massac county. Busy factories with long pay
rolls will provide the piano prospects for the new
fit m.
OPENS IN GOODLAND, KANS.
Charles Kolacny is a live salesman who recently
opened a complete music store in Goodland, Kan-
sas. Mr. Kolacny will carry a complete line of
phonographs, records, sheet music and music rolls,
and all kinds of small musical instruments, novel-
ties and accessories of a musical nature. It is
Goodland's first exclusive music store.
Schumann
PIANOS and PLAYER PIANOS
Have no superiors in appearance, tone
power or other essentials of strictly
leaders in the trade.
Warning to Infringers
TRADE MARK
This Trade Mark is cast
in the plate and also ap-
pears upon the fall board
of all genuine Schumann
Pianos, and all Infringers
will be prosecuted. Beware
of imitations such as Schu-
mann & Company, Schu-
mann & Son, and also
Shuman,
as
all
stencil
shops, dealers and users of
pianos bearing a name in
imitation
of
the
name
Schumann with the inten-
tion of deceiving the public
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Schumann Piano Co.
W. N. VAN MATRE, President
Rockford, 111.
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
Manufacturer ol
PIANO
BASS STRINGS
21st St. and Fairmount Ave.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
"Built on Family Pride"
Doll & Sons
Represent the Artistic
in Piano and Player Piano
Construction
JACOB DOLL & SONS
STODDART
WELLSMORE
Jacob Doll & Sons, Inc.
Southern Boulevard, E. 133rd St.
E. 134th St. and Cypress Are.
NEW YORK
W. P. HAINES & CO.
(INCORPORATED)
PLAYERS and PIANOS
138th Street and Walton Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
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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).