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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY
A JOBBER'S
ORIGINAL MEM.
ADVERTISE
New York, May 13, 1903. I forward herewith electrotype for use in the Phonograph Monthly., in accordance with your request for original advertisements. The poetry quite clearly explains the wonderful field which an Edison Phonograph covers and also impresses one with the unlimited
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variety "of music it furnishes.
This advertisement was run for about one
month and a half in the leading New York
theatre programmes. Trusting you may find
zrthy of attention in your Monthly, I
beg to remain, sincerely yours,
Blackman Talking Machine Co., J. Newcomb Blackman, Prop.
GREAT FUTURE IN THE PHONOGRAPH.
"There is certainly a great future in the Phonograph, and no one is now recognizing this condition more thoroughly than the general music dealer. When one stops to think what steps forward have been made since Edison's tinfoil cylinder, considered an absolute failure from a practical standpoint from the start, to the present day talking machine, the advance toward perfection is scarcely realizable. Yet I believe still more remarkable improvements are to come, and in the near future; and perhaps what we may now think a wonderful achievement will then be a back number. ' — Inteniezv in Music Trade Reziew
" HAPPY " GETS A NEW HAT.
"Happy Hooligan" has substituted an Edison Moulded Record for the time honored tin can ; at least, that is the conception of W. C. Patrick, one of our Western salesmen, as presented in the above drawing.
AN AUTHOR'S VIEWS ON THE PHONOGRAPH FOR DICTATION PURPOSES.
The March issue of the Author, the official publication of the British Society of Authors, contained an article on the use of the Phonograph for dictation. It is entitled, "The Shorthand Substitute," and is written by C. H. Cook, whose writings under the nom de plume of "John Bickerdyke," are widely known. The article is of such interest that liberal extracts are here made from it :
THE SHORTHAND SUBSTITUTE.
I have no pen in my hand ; there is no shorthand writer in the room worrying me to repeat what I sai4, and asking the way to spell this or that word; there is no typewriter in front of me with its odious click, click; and yet this article is being evolved rapidly and without effort Now and again I press a key, but that is all. When I have dictated to the extent of 800 words, I push aside a little lever, place a wax cylinder in a box, label it No. 1, and have no more care or trouble about the matter until the afternoon, when my amanuensis brings me a neatly-typed article for revision. Thanks to an excellent voice recording and reproducing machine, I have done most of my literary work and correspondence after this fashion for some years. The only serious fault I have to find with the system is that in course of time the Phonograph comes to be regarded as almost indispensable, and that when away from home without my mechanical assistant, ' literary work of any kind becomes a grievous toil. L'ndoubtedly there are writers who could not use the Phonograph with advantage. Some cannot dictate. In other cases the voice possesses a somewhat muffled