Celebrated Cincinnati Fire and Burglar-Proof

SAFES.

Vault Work

and Bank Locks.

D. S. COVERT, General Agent,

W. B. AVERY, late with Terwilliger & Co.

57 State Street,

CHICAGO.

Read the following, selected from hundreds of testimonials in our possession from the leading business firms in Chicago who were using our Safes--originals at my office.

ANNIVERSARY FIRE NUMBER-ILLUSTRATED.

TERMS: Single Nos. 35 Cents. Per Year, $4.00.

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PIANOS

Seventy-five Premiums Awarded for BEST PIANO.

20,000 have been Manufactured and are now in Use.

The manufacturers of the HALLET, DAVIS & CO. PIANO desire to PLACE À FEW FACTS before an intelligent community. They claim ability to prove the superiority of their instrument among ALL RIVAL PIANOS, and invite A MO. MENT OF ATTENTION from those contemplating a thoughtful and cautious investment of money in Pianos to the following extracts selected from a large number of letters from German masters whose names are IMMORTAL, and whose professional opinions stand for the HIGHEST MODERN AUTHORITY in music: "It is the most admirable instrument ever made." FRANZ LISZT, First of Living Pianists. "I pronounce the instrument the best and richest in sound I have ever heard."

PROF. E. FR. RICHTER, Composer and Teacher Leipzig Conservatory. "The most exquisite instrument I ever played on." DR. THEODORE KULLAK, Court Pianist, Berlin. "In roundness and strength of tone it represents the perfection of musical mechanism." JOSEPH JOACHEM, Chief Director Berlin Royal Academy of Music. "Unites all the brilliant qualities of the most exquisite modern key instruments. It surpasses all the other productions of art of this kind." A. W. GOTTSCHALK, Court Organist, Weimar. "These Pianos are as nearly absolute perfection as it is possible for the instrument to be brought." FRANZ ABT, German Song Writer.

"They perfectly satisfy every demand made regarding touch, delicacy of expression and power of tone."

FRANZ BENDEL,
Pupil of Liszt.

"It excited my astonishment. It surpasses in
power and fullness of tone all other instruments
JOSEPH GUNGL.
which I have ever heard."*

Musical Director Prussian Court.
"The best Piano I ever saw in my life. They
far excel all other manufactures." H. SARO,
Royal Prussian Musical Director.
"I can only wish that such exquisite Pianos
may soon be generally known and find their way
to all Germany."
FERDINAND DAVID,
Composer and Teacher Leipzig Conservatory.
"I can conscientiously assure yon that I never
before heard so perfect an instrument."

JULES DE SWERT,

Royal Concert Master, Berlin.
"It is the nearest perfection of anything of
the kind I have ever seen and examined."
W. SAUER.

Leading Organ Manufacturer of Europe.
"The best instrument I ever played on, in
tone and mechanical workmanship."

ANTON URSPRUCH,

Composer, Frankfort-on-the-Main.
"A production of art of the very first order,
such as has never before been brought to this
J. NEILISSOV,
country."
Court Pianist, St. Petersburg.
"I am very proud to hear it said in this land
of musicians that so admirable a piano has never
been manufactured in Germany.

GEORGE BANCROFT,
American Legation, Berlin.

In addition to these explicit and concise testimonials by Foreign Masters, which would seem to place the HALLET & DAVIS PIANO above all question of precedence and superiority, similar professional endorsements of its general superiority are given in the written opinions of the leading Pianists and Organists of the United States, including the names of a thousand Teachers and Professors of Music in our leading Academies and Seminaries.

These Pianos, both Grand and Square, can be seen in Chicago in large numbers, with a variety of other manufactures, at the Piano and Organ Warerooms of

W. KIMBALL,

Sole Northwestern Agent,

Wabash Ave. and 13th St..

A large assortment of New PIANOS and ORGANS to RENT. installments can be accommodated.

CHICAGO.

Parties wishing to pay by