The Edison phonograph monthly (Mar 1903-Feb 1904)

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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY. ii "Your Suspended List received, and we will sec that none of these firms get Edison goods from us at less than contract price." — Fulton Mercantile Co., Verndale, Minn. "You can depend on me keeping up the prices on all Edison goods and not selling any goods to any one you have dropped from your List. I am doing a nice business this winter, and hope to sell about one thousand Records during the holidays. I do think Edison Records are getting better all the time. It is impossible to sell goods here." — Albert Palmer, Garrett, Ind. "We have no time or place in our store for anything but the 'Edison' in the talking machine line. Price cutters have no right to live (commercially), and we will do all we can to kill them and the 'steen cent* records." — Hooven Novelty Mfg. Co., Hazleton, Pa. "We have had some little experience lately with the 'steen cent' records, and wish to say now that we will never leave the Edison fold again. We have a fairly liberal dose of these records yet, and may decide soon to give them away, as they will not sell, and our room is valuable. We enjoy the Edison goods very much ourselves, and only wish we had sufficient trade to sell ten times as many as we do." — W. A. Carver, Canal Dover, Ohio. "It is a pleasure to deal with a house that lives up to what it publishes, and that is what you folks do. We are not envious of our competitors, but we do like to see the Dealers suspended that don't live up to your contract. We are Edison people from the word go, and hope to do more in the future with your goods." — Frank IV. Tlwmas, Albany, N. Y. "Am glad to see that you keep up the price on Records. I can get fifty cents just as easy as sixteen cents. You can depend that I will not cut prices." — Charles B. Keim, Louisville, Ohio. "We are much pleased with the last edition of Records, as they are perfect. We will handle no other, for we know and appreciate good music when we hear it and do our trade." — Hammett & Cook, Philadelphia, Pa. "I for one will not sell any of your apparatus to any of the Suspended List or to customers for less than the list prices, as I think they are fully worth all you ask for them. I have as good a chance for as many sales as any of your authorized Dealers under your rules and regulations, and when I get so I can't comply with these I will resign from the business." — Joshua Boss, Liberty, R. I. "I talk" National goods forever ; in fact, they talk for themselves."— W. B. Hall, Sr., Riverside, N. J. "We opened up our Edison Phonograph Department quite recently, and both the sale of the apparatus and Records for same has been more than satisfactory to us. The only thing that we now have to regret is, that we did not open this department up at least a year earlier."— O. K. Houck Piano Co., Memphis, Tenn. A WONDERFUL REPRODUCTION. C. J. Heppe & Son, of Philadelphia, write: "A. Bonanzo, 'one of the leading structural engineers of the country, who is at the same time an authority on good music, considers Edison Record No. 8490, Ballet Music, Mathias Sandorph, with Clarinet Solo, the most wonderful reproduction of a wood wind instrument he has ever heard. To use his own words, Tt is as natural as the thing itself.' " A PHONOGRAPH SINGS AND TALKS THE PARTS. Samuel Briggs, Jr.> a boy living on Stacy street, Burlington, N. J., has constructed a toy theatre that excites the envy of his young friends and the marvel of older acquaintances. The miniature stage is two feet deep, two feet high and three feet wide, and is so arranged that the scenes may be easily and quickly shifted behind an automatically rolling curtain. The ingenious young owner has made up scenery for the different acts which he presents. The backgrounds and landscapes are clipped from show posters, while paper or wax figures represent the actors. The plays range from the minstrel to the drama, the illustrations showing scenes from Dumont's Minstrels and "'Way Down East." In the pit the wax figures of the orchestra appear in the attitude of furnishing the stage music, and a mechanical doll drums noisily on a toy piano. Another feature of this miniature playhouse is that it is connected with a Phonograph, which talks, sings or plays the parts of the actors. The clever boy, who is but eleven years of age, has delighted many an audience, adults as well as children, with this home-made toy. — Philadelphia North American, December 14, 1903. OMITTED BRITISH SELECTION. No. 12839, "Auld Lang Syne," by Thomas Reid, was omitted from the list of British Records issued in December. We have moulds of this Record and can fill orders for it. Douglas & Company, Jobbers at 89 Chambers street, New York City, recently had a customer from New Jersey call at their place and buy a Home Phonograph. He does not sell Edison goods, but those of another company, and said that he desired to purchase a good machine for his personal use. He therefore bought an Edison Phonograph. "EDISON RECORDS.,, "There are numerous imitations, with many claims of superiority, but there is no other Record made that equals the genuine Edison, for perfect tonal qualities." — From a Holiday Folder issued by R. S. Williams & Sons Co^ Ltd., Toronto, Canada.