Presto

THE PRESTO BUYERS*
GUIDE CLASSIFIES ALL
PIANOS AND PLAYERS
AND THEIR MAKERS
PRESTO
E.tauuh*d 1884 THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE WEEKLY
THE PRESTO YEAR BOOK
IS THE ONLY ANNUAL
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THE MUSIC TRADES
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A SOOTHSAYER WHO MADE GOOD
The moving picture here shown may best be captioned
"The Warning That Proved True." For when Mr.
O'Ryan, Presto's cartoonist, drew the picture, the first
forecast of what the Better Business Bureau has ac-
complished had but just been issued. The newspapers
were filled with the fake allurements of the reckless
class of piano dealers. The coupons were flying thick
and the near-checks were drawing ruralists from far
away to the big cities, only to learn that they had been
misled.
The fortune-teller of the cartoon "had it right." The
law has taken an interest in the advertising falsifiers.
The piano trade has been purged of false pretense and it
is no longer common to find the names of great instru-
ments taken in vain in the printed page. Mr. Dennis,
of the Better Business Bureau, had not yet entered the
arena of How-To-Do-It, or How-Not-To-Do-It, when
Mr. O'Ryan's cartoon was drawn. It is now reproduced
more to show how things once were than to suggest
what they may be—or now have become.
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