The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-07-23
INGENIOUS INVENTION.
A Montana Newspaper Man Devises
an Automatic Newspaper
Vender.

Last summer, our citizens will re-
member, was employed on the staff
of the HERALD a young gentleman
named Hazlett He stayed with us
about month, writing, soliciting
and doing all round work, and in
the time made numerous friends.
He was called east, however, where
he bought ont the Bucyrus CO.,
News and began newspaporlal work
for himself. iSince then he has done
well in business and also succeeded
in perfeeting an invention which
will vet make him millionaire. Mr.
Hazlett is justly worthy of this
great success and no one is more
ready to rejoice with him than the
NEIHART HERALD. We give below
description of the machine, which
is taken from the Bucyrus (O)
Evening Telegraph. Mr.. Hazlett
writes us that he has just sold 80 of
the machines to the Cleveland World
and that numerous orders are arriv-
ing.
"Messrs. Hawk and Hazlett ex
hibited their Automatic Newspaper
Vending Machine last nigh in front
Of the Deal House, and attracted
quite IL crowd. The machine was
loaded with Evening Telegraphs,
and during the short time it was on
exhibition, sold 20 papers.
Councilman B. F. Lauck was the
first man to "drop a nickle in the
SLOT and go away happy with the
'STelegraph and 2 cents in change"
Inventor Hazlett promptly swooped
down on the money drawer and
robbed it of the first nickle which he
says he intends to keep as relic.
Nickles dropped so fast for few
minutes that it was impossible to see
who dropped them.
The machine, which is very novel
and ingenious, it the joint invention
of Hale E. Hawk, inventor of the
Hawk Automatic Scale and A. }.
Hazlett editor of the Crawford
County News. The inca occurred
to Mr.. Hazlett, when he had charge
of the circulation department of the
Helena, Montana, Daily Journal,
Russell Harrison's paper. He had
in his employ number t's boys,
some of whom were In the ha3sit of
"knocking down" on him, and as the
"nicl<le in the SLOT idea was applied
to nearly everything else he Thought
it would be good thing if applied
to newspaper work, as it would pre-
vent stealing and lessen the cost of
labor.
The machine is so constructed
that it will sell papers of any size Or
thickness and price. 1t can be adj
iusted to operate with any size coin
and give back any amount OF
change. If the price of the paper
is penny it can be adjusted to op-
perate with penny. If two cents
the customer ,Gops in his nickle and
gets his payer and three cents IN
change. When the papers are all
out lid with the words, ''papers all'
drops down and co vers the entrance
to the coin chute SO that no more
coins can be inserted
Messrs. Hawk & Haz iett received
many congratulations over the sue
cessful work of their novel lh%entlon
and have every reason to fee te'aeour-
aged for its future success. lAey
haze received favorable replies fro~
several of the leading dailies CT the
country asking for models of fhe
machines and will immediat ely
build fifty of the machines there
which will be used as models. AS
1T MlEl take number of machines to
furaish Gea ,h city, the manufacturing
Of the machines, may in time amount
to quite an industry.
The nickel in the slot idea is now
being applied to almost every line
of industry. In prohibition states
they have machine into which you
may drop nickle and get pony
whiskey. One of the most compli-
Gated ''nickle machines is one which
will take your photograph ''while
YOU watt A fortune awaits the
man who can invent one into which
you may drop a nickle and get a
wife"