Arizona republican., 1912-01-21
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Phoenix Merchants Show Their Wares at Com
 mercial Show.
FUTURE OF VENTURE
 SEEMS ASSURED


 York. but it surely is not so attrac-
 tive as the jeweled loving cups and other articles of the master crafts man in precious metals which Frank ! Hilderbrand has displayed. with a ! Hupmobile as the centerpiece. in the l first annual Auto and Commercial | show which has one more day to ! run when these lines are read The ! exhibit is in charge of Dr John D. | O'NeiIl. who says that even the first | half-do trophies on display aggre- gate a thousand dollars of the realm. one would not look for romance, 1 ordinarily. in can of ripe olives. | but the exception which proves the rule is found in the exhibit of Nun ger Bros. whose regular place of | business is at the juncture of South Central avenue and Henshaw road. The olives which they exhibit might well be classified as "Giganticus." and put in the same order as butterflies and beetles-if they were not olives as come from the interior of Yuca- tan. Butterflies and beetles grow as big as dinner platters in that country. while these Arizona olives grow as large as an infant baseball. The golden glow of the olive oil which
 these gentlemen extract. also differ entiates their product from the cheap. peanutty-looking brands they used to
 lug over the ocean to us.
 Business men pause in front of that nifty office room which the II. II McNein company have on the floor. and admire the vertical filing sys- tems. the numerous office appliances
 the sanitary desks. the Monarch light
 touch typewriter. and the other tools of modern commercialism therein found The dictionary has also proved it's usefulness. Leon Jacobs and the press agent stalled on the word 'nargileh." meaning thereby a smoke pipe of Turkish origin on the Baso- witz counter around the corner. until they found out the right spelling at the McNem booth.
 Speaking of smokers supplies. that Baszwitz exhibit is often patroniZed. In fact. most Of the exhibit would be gone before this. were it not for the reserve stock over at the main store. l Devotecs of the weed say their nico- | tine prayers regularly before the | judging from the ire l quency- of the devotiOns, tobacco is popular religion, with BaZwitz as the high priest
 If you have that "homelillc" feeling. | the O'MaHev Lumber company's stock | of ~Genasco" roofing is there to cap | with reality your dream of the vine clad cottage And all the other build | ing material needful to take your | castles in the air out of the sky and | put them actually in the Eden which ! is in Maricopa county may be pro- | cured from the same obliging firm.
 When the wonderful Indian band | is not discoursing melody under Di- ! rector r. A Venne's baton. Miss | Alice NJ Riddle of the Redewill Mu- | sic company tickies the worries of one i of the pair of twin Schroeder club | pianos which comprise part of the | exhibit of that well-known music | house Lucrctia Martini also a Miss, | sometimes assists. Either or both | these ladies occasionally take ! Caruso out of his paper bag. and | make him warble from his rubber overcoat on the Columbia grafonola. | All the other grand opera artists are also in attendance. as well as our | old friend. After the Ball" and that latest marvel of rag-time melody. the original Alexander"
 The overcoat which the Tharp 1 has hanging on the rack | in this space brings back boyhood | days and that old. familiar hymn. | ''NOw Wash Me and l Shall Be Winter Than Snow" Tharp, who. | when not on exhibition, works like | the rest of us. is located in the base ment of the Adams hotel He says | a guilty conscience is the only thing | he has never yet successfully cleaned, | and he's making progress on several ! Phoenix specimens.
 The Arizona Mercantile company, | dispensers of nationally famous brews. | distills and liquid grapefruit, have | pyramid of seductive labels on bot ties of various dimensions, contain | ing everything from the innOcuous l creme de cacoa of the good Benedict | monks to the amber fluid which the | Prescott people obligingly keg up and | ship to Phoenix regularly. Nineteen | cases of grand and petit larceny have l centered around this cXhibit-and | much of the booty was found in the | auto-gauntlets of the promoters of | the show-they do say. However. the | has certain perquisites- provided the bottles are returned in 1 tact.
 The Motor Supply company has q | dandy bunch of accessories. attrac- tivelv set forth. If you need polish ing. they have the goods. If you are run down. Dr. Auto might prescribe | a little more speed-graduated by speedometer. If you creak while you walk. the luhricating oil is clearly | the course of treatment you need. Try the collapsible pails-they beat canteen when en route. And noth- ing could be concealed from the searching beams of the searchlights- pocket and battleship siZe-which are yours for a modest consideration. And if you lack personal magnetism, rem edy it at once by buying a magneto.
 Matrimony has had several big boosts during the show. The eX hiht of the New State Electric Sup ply x Fixture company is responsible. It is wonderful what Cupid can do. when an electrically operated wash tub stands cheek by jowl with one
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