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PRESTO
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.
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.
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 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.
R. C. WADE CO.
110 South Wabash Avenue
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DETERLINQ
Talking Machines
Challenge Comparison in
every point from cabinets to
tonal results.
Prices attractive for fine
goods. Write us.
Deterling Mfg. Co., Inc.
TIPTON, IND.
Phonograph Cabinets
Well Made and Finished Cabinets,
attractive designs. Supplied also
as Complete Phonographs.
Let Us Quote You Our Jobbers' and Dealers' Prices.
E. H. STAFFORD MFG. CO., - Chicago
NEW PHONOGRAPH STORES
Many Extensions of Well Established Departments
Noted in News of the Week.
Edwin H. Diekmeyer and sister, Miss Ida Dick-
meyer. have purchased the interest in the Spiegel
Sonora Shop, Ft. Wayne, Ind., from the E. C.
Speigel Piano Co.
The F. A. North Piano Co., Trenton, N. J., has
added a new talking machine department.
Edward Kupper, Milwaukee phonograph dealer,
has moved from 1060 Tuctorn avenue to 1071 on
the same street.
John Streiff is preparing to open an extensive
Remington store at the corner of Flatbush and
Lafayette avenues, Brooklyn, N. Y. He will con-
trol the sale of the Remington product throughout
Long Island.
The Pathe agency has been substituted for the
discontinued grocery line by the Starr Department
Store, Elmira, N. Y.
Burley & Biesinger is a new talking machine
store recently opened at 332 West Ferry street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
To facilitate the handling of an increasing busi-
ness in phonographs, records, and' accessories, the
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CHICAGO
November 6, 1920.
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
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 AT*.
Tel. Lincoln 2726
C. A. Dorney Furniture Company, 612 Hamilton
street, Allentown, Pa., has set aside a separate de-
partment.
The New England Piano Co., Boston, Mass., has
enlarged its talking machine sales department.
The Cushman Music Shop has been opened at 14
Church street, Hartford, Conn.
A new display room has been added for art models
of talking machines in the San Diego, Cal., store of
the Wiley B. Allen Co.
The building at 1121 Grand avenue, Kansas City,
Mo., has been leased for a music store by Albert
Schoenberg, to be called the Merry Melody Music
Shop.
The Indianapolis Talking Machine Co., Indian-
apolis, has leased the first floor and basement of
the building north of its present location. W. C.
Cook is the new manager of the company.
The Musical Supply Co. has been opened at 23
Pearl street, Worcester, Mass., by W. A. Burbank.
HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE.
Russell Higgins and Hallie Perkins of Shelby-
ville, Ind., were arrested last week on affidavits
charging them with grand larceny in connection with
the theft of a number of talking machine parts from
the Tindall-Wagner Furniture Company there,
where Higgins has been employed. Higgins is said
to have told fellow workmen that he had taken three
talking machine motors and a number of other parts
with the intention of building a machine for himself
and Perkins. The latter denied any connection with
the thefts. The men were bound over to the grand
jury for investigation.
OPENS IN NOKOMIS, ILL.
John N. Taylor of Columbia, Mo., has leased the
August Meyer building on North Washington street,
Mexico, Mo., and will open a music store there.
Homer Fraley, who is associated with the M. E.
Rubinowitz Music House, was in Nokomis, 111., last
week systematizing the Nokomis store of the Rubin-
owitz Music House. This store has been leased by
Mr. Rubinowitz for some time, but he delayed open-
ing it until a few days ago. Mr. Fraley has been
with a music house in Detroit. The Columbia
Grafonola and records will be on sale.
EDISON'S FIRST RECORD.
The first record made and displayed by Thomas
A. Edison on the Edison phonograph is now being
displayed in the windows of the Edison shops through
out the country. It is made of tin-foil and was first
played by Edison at a county fair in Thomasville,
Ga. There is no machine in existence at this time
which will reproduce the record. The old record is
nearly four feet long and it produces a c6mic speech
by an actor, on "Where the Whahgdoodle Mourn-
eth."
BOOSTING HOLIDAY SALES
Talking Machine Dealers Recognize the Advantages
of Special Inducements to Customers.
The talking machine dealers in many places are
arousing the holiday spirit with special holiday ad-
vertising and by the formation of Christmas clubs.
Persistence in that species of publicity will without
doubt have the desirable effect on sales desired. F
The invitation to the prospective customer to select
the machine right now when the stocks are full is
a good stimulation to those with even a vague de-
sire to buy in the fture.
The talking machine department of the Strawn-
Tucker Furniture Co., Little Rock, Ark., has already
made a big success of its Christmas Phonograph
Club. Miss Birdie Ivey is the efficient manager of
the department.
LABOR AND PRICES.
In the opinion of Eldridge R. Johnson, president
of the Victor Talking Machine Company, prices are
bound for a lower level and the public in the mean-
time will not buy more than it must. Mr. Johnson
has just returned from abroad where, he said, the
labor situation is a black cloud on the European
horizon. "I do not believe America will have a panic
with the slump in prices that is inevitable," said Mr.
Johnson, "and one does not necessarily follow the
other. The lumber people forced the price so high
that contractors stopped building. When there was
no longer a demand for the big output of lumber
prices began to fall. Now the builder is not buying
lumber today because he thinks the price will be
lower tomorrow. The same applies to the automo-
bile industry, although those manufacturers did
not raise their prices as high as some of the others.
Today the prices are dropping.
STRADIVARA MANAGER DIES.
E. W. Barlow, Portland, Ore., manager of the
Stradivara Phonograph Company, died at the Port-
land Surgical hospital on October 20 after submit-
ting to an operation of the stomach. Mr. Barlow,
who was 53 years of age, had a very large circle of
friends, who deeply mourn his loss and who extend
to his family sincere sympathy. His wife and daugh-
ter Ruth reside in that city. His son Howard lives
in New York, where he is an important figure in
musical circles.
COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE.
At the special meeting last week of stockholders of
the Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company
the proposal of directors to increase the authorized
common stock capital from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000
shares of no par value was ratified.
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