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THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD
July 15, 1920
STOCKS IN GOOD SHAPE
IN ST. LOUIS STORES
Trade Has Very Little Complaint to Make Regarding Existing Situation, Although Business Has Dropped Slightly — Columbia Dealers Form Club — More Space for Val's Store — Trade Happenings in General Show Progress
St. Louis, Mo., July 3. — There have been worse months than the past month in the talking machine business in St. Louis but there have also been better months, for the clearly discernible but not alarming decline that set in the month before continued last month. Talking machines, which had continued to sell well long after the selling of pianos became difficult, came at last to be implicated in the general reaction and the degree of its implication has increased during the past month. Records have not suffered as much from the situation as the machines, but sales of these have not been as brisk as formerly. The opening of the Municipal opera season has stimulated the record sales to some extent. There has also been a fair demand for small machines and records for outing purposes. Stocks are in better shape than at any time during the past year. Shipments were badly interfered with for a time owing to the railroad men's strike, but that condition has improved. The prospects are that jobbers and retailers will enter upon the Fall business with adequate stocks of both machines and records.
Val Kusnitz, proprietor of Val's Phonograph Accessory House, has leased additional space adjoining his retail store at Tenth and Pine streets, for his wholesale business, where he carries a complete stock of repair parts, main springs, needles, repeatographs and various accessories for his rapidly growing wholesale trade. He has just added a large stock of sapphire points.
J. J. Buehlman, for eight years office manager of the Aeolian Co.'s St. Louis branch, has joined the Tri-Sales Co. of this city as sales manager, enabling Messrs. Phelps and Mayer, the heads of the business, to spend more time on the road. G. H. Phelps has returned from a trip to the Pacific Coast, where he secured excellent business on the Portophone and also the new "Comedies," the attractive turntable noveltj which the company has recently placed on the market. M. J. Mayer has returned from a trip through Canada and to the East and also reports good contracts on both specialties.
When Columbia dealers of St. Louis were on their trip East last month they formed a club with the purpose of having something or other of a social nature each month. The charter members were A. Rummler, E. Geitz, F. Schanzle. D. Gregson, A. Roesch, C. R. Salmon and J. McKenna. Their first something or other was a dinner at Bevo Mill. Other dealers were invited and about thirty dealers and their wives attended. It was a pay-your-own-way affair, as all the something or others are to be. After the eatings they talked shop and exchanged ideas and the dealers had a chance to tell the Columbia organization men their side of the merchandising story. The next ojie will be a picnic. The details have not been arranged.
H. P. Victor, of the Columbia auditing department, and J. V. Schuyler, of the International Record Department, have been in St. Louis recently. Mr. Victor has been doing a little auditing and Mr. Schuyler has been going over International records with the dealers.
C. R. Salmon, city salesman of the Columbia Co., is putting over a billboard campaign. The idea is to have a billboard company put up painted boards in various localities, the dealer of each locality to pay for his own boards and get all the benefits of them. The paint is to be changed every six months.
Manager Jackson, of the Brunswick Co., an♦ nounces that it has been settled that the Baldwin Co. is to handle the Brunswick line of talking machines in St. Louis. Some stock has already been delivered to the Baldwin store, although the talking machines are not to be
AUGUST, 1920
POPULAR VOCAL
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