The talking machine world (July-Sept 1921)

August IS, 1921 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD 117 FROM OUR CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS — (Continued from page 116) SJP, Superior Universal Reproducer on the Edison ir Reproducer with 2 It Connection for tjliwn— Sum pip Prepaid 10 Dealer. Nickel J6.25 Gold Reloil Pri«s,S7 50 NickelS10.00 Gold rkes on eMpplfeaiion BARN HART BROTHERS & SPINDLER Monro*or.dThro«pStr*elJ CHICAGO offered to the trade. The needles arc of the jewel and all-stccl types and embody the new safety-point feature. The jewel needles arc for the Edison and Pat he' phonographs and the jewel point is of genuine sapphire. These needles come set upon a handsome display rack and each needle is mounted on a fancy card and enclosed in a transparent envelope. The steel needles come packed 100 in a package, which retails for ten cents. Each display package contains twenty-five thousand needles, live thousand extra loud, five thousand loud, ten thousand medium and live thousand soft. The safety-point feature of these needles lies in the fact that both the steel and sapphire points are made with an exceedingly long taper, so designed as to perfectly fill the trough of the record groove. Columbia Dealers Enjoy Outing The outing of the Columbia Graphophonc Co. and its dealers, held on Wednesday, July 20, at Glcnwoud Park, III., was one of the most successful affairs of its kind ever known in the trade. From start to finish it was a huge success, with a large attendance and a great amount of fun crowded into twelve hours of merry-' making. About three hundred persons look their lunches and traveled out to the banks of the Fox River to enjoy a day of sports, dancing and entertainment. Manager John McKenna is to be congratulated. So arc his assistants on the various committees, whose names are printed on page 119. We arc inclined to Ihink the dealers had a hunch of what was in store for them in the way of an enjoyable day, for many of them closed their stores and took their entire sales forces with them to the picnic. There was a baseball game between the dealers and the wholesale force in which the latter defeated the former by a score of 9 to 2. But things were evened up when the dealers' girls won from the Columbia office girls by a score of 16 to 2. Wc do not mean to depreciate the girls of the Columbia office. Myomy, no. They were no good when it came to baseball, but when it came to dancing— and looks — O, boy I they're known all over Chicago as the greatest aggregation of pulchritude in the world of talking machincsl But speaking of mere men: Our friends. Reilly, Blimkc and Lemberg, of ihc city sales force, were some performers in the "athletic" events, and little Jack Kapp, of the record department, showed some speed in the fifty-yard dash. Wm. Lyons, who championed the cause of the dealers in the ball game, made a great battle, but was helpless against the stellar aggre(Coiiiuufd on page 119) A NEW FLETCHER PRODUCT Dea(e,„w,or NEW EDISON Prices and Terms Plays all Records FLETCHERWICKES CO. 6 EAST LAKE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.