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EDISON
Phonograph Monthly
PUBLISHED FOR TRADE USE ONLY BY THE NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
VOL. IV.
ORANGE, N. J., MARCH, 1906.
No. 1.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH Orange, N. J.
CO.
NEW YORK : 31 UNION SQUARE.
CHICAGO : 304 WABASH AVENUE.
340 KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N. S. W.
CALLE PROLONGACION DEL CINCO DE MAYO, NO. 67-77,
MEXICO CITY.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., LTD., 25 CLERKENWELL
ROAD, LONDON, ENG.
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS.
All communications to THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY should be addressed to the Advertising Department, Orange, N. J.
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s We Report "Progress" .• I
Advance List of April Records 2
Please Don't 3
Carry a Stock and Advertise 3
The Grand Opera Records 4
Our Recording Department 4
Publishers of Music in April List 4
Not Our Miss Nelson . 4
Printed Matter 5
Among Jobbers 5
Personal 5
Repeating Attachments 6
National Branch Companies 6
Jobbers Organizing 6
Begins a New Year 6
A Letter to be Proud of 7
Phonograph Brought Tears 7
Comments on Edison Gold Moulded Records for April, 1906 8
What the Dealers Say 10
Fine "Follow-up" Letter n
Thomas C. Hough and His Phonograph
Delivering Automobile 12
A Youthful Salesman 13
Jobbers of Edison Phonographs and
Records 15
Suspended List for March, 1906 15
WE REPORT "PROGRESS."
"Progress" is the best report we can make in the matter of supplying the trade with Edison Phonographs and Records. Because there has been no diminution in the orders received for both we have not been able to cut down the orders on hand, although every department of our factory has been run to its fullest capacity during the month, as they have been for six months past. The situation compelled us to be quite unpatriotic in not observing the two holidays of the month. We did not think it would be fair to the trade to lose the output of two days, so work went on just as usual. The many Jobbers and Dealers who are complaining that they cannot get Phonographs and Records fast enough to meet the demand of their present and prospective patrons, should know that we are turning out all the machines and Records that we possibly can; more than at any time in the history of the industry. These are being apportioned with absolute fairness to all. Every Jobber is getting an equitable share of the output and this plan must be followed until the demand falls off or increased facilities for manufacturing can be provided. The trade may depend upon it that we are as anxious to give them Phonographs and Records as they are to get them, and we are constantly trying to devise ways of increasing the output. It goes without saying that we are greatly pleased with the popularity of Edison goods and are ever endeavoring to enhance it. Our only regret is that we cannot produce the goods to promptly and fully meet the demand. Not to be able to do it is to play into the hands of other manufacturers, for when a man decides that he wants a talking machine he is apt to buy some kind even if he cannot get the one he wants.
The advance orders for March Records may be cited as a fair instance of the almost phenomenal demand for Edison goods. The sale of Edison Records is always the heaviest for
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THE ADVANCE LIST OF APRIL RECORDS APPEARS ON PAQE 2.