The Phonogram (1901-01)

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The PHONOGRAM JANUARY NOTES. I hear that my friend Major Cline, of the N. J. National Guard, has rats in his store down in Burlington. Nothing unusual about that, but wait! The Major's rats dance to ragtime music as liberated from a Phonograph. He believes the rodents imbibed the passion for Terpsichorean delights through nibbing Phonographic records. Now what do vou think of that ? My Dear Phonogram :—A friend who is the agent of one of the Gram-o-phones said to me the other day, “I am coming to see you very soon for a trial between my Gram-o-phone and your Phonograph, and I tell you the Phonograph is’nt in it.** He called; bringing his in- strument and disc records, and the battle began. When