San Juan Record | 1933-05-25 | Page 7 | Slot Machines Old

slot machine old enterprising german publishers who installed slot machines nt at the principal railway stations for the supply of novels to hurrying travelers merely adopted says tho the manchester guardian a device invented over a century ago by the famous freethinking free thinking book seller richard carlisle Carlls le because his fits shop chop assistants were constantly being ir rested for selling forbidden books mostly volumes that would now be considered perfectly harmless carlisle set his wits to work and con an automatic machine whereby the buyers were prevented from identifying the sellers the names of the he books were inscribed on a large dial and the purchaser having turned a n pointer to tho the une ho he wanted deposited his money in a slot and the volume dropped out