The Edison phonograph monthly (Mar 1905-Feb 1906)

EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY. CONTRAST riADE A QUICK SALE. I am delighted with the Phonograph business. It is on the increase. I am putting out twice as many machines as last year. My clerk was conducting a free concert a few days ago when a gentleman came into the store and asked if it was possible for the Home Phonograph to record and reproduce all the Records advertised. I overheard the remark and replied that it would record the voice of a mule as well as the beautiful songs we had played. We played Record No. 8971, "Yankee Patrol," and then No. 8721, "The Mule Song." He at once said, "I want the machine." In one hour I had his outfit loaded on my auto car and delivered three miles in the country. I don't sell any other make of machines and my customers are all delighted and have the best. G. R. Warren, Slatington, Pa. ORANGE BLOSSOMS AND THE PHONOGRAPH. This is the way J. A. Leiszy, a Dealer at Richmond, Cal., recently sent an order to Peter Bacigalupi, Edison Jobber at San Francisco : "Send by next mail to S. C. Dole. Richmond, Cal., Record No. 120, 'Mendelssohn's "Wedding March.' Party is so enthused over the Phonograph just purchased that the wedding march is to be played on it at their daughter's wedding." A BETTER ONE NOT SOLD. Here's the way Thomas Wardell, Edison Jobber at Lowell, Mass., put it in a circular letter sent to his patrons recently. The undersigned has had eleven years' experience in the talking-machine business. In that time I have heard, handled and sold all makes of records. I am now as you are aware, handling Edison Records almost exclusively, because I believe thev are the best in wearing qualities, and ESPECIALLY IN QUALITY OF TONE, consequently they are THE CHEAPEST RECORD IN THE MARKET. "When I find a better Record than the Edison, I shall be glad to handle it. Edison Records advertise themselves. THE YOUNGSTER KNEW THE DIFFERENCE. "Here is a little incident you can make use of," writes T. L. Thomas, a Dealer at Hazelton, Pa. "A customer came in this week to buy Records. I have a half-dozen of another make which I don't sell. I have them here for comparison only. I went to put one on the machine for comparison when a little boy six years old, who was with the lady, when he saw the box, begged me not to put it on the machine, and asked that I should take one out of the box that had Mr. Edison's picture on, as Mr. So and So, their neighbor, had the other kind and they did not play as loud as the ones that had Mr. Edison's picture on. Of course I complied for the time being, but I hunted the neighbor up and got him to my place, allowed him $2.50 for his old machine and sold him a Standard, horn and stand and forty-two Records. So you see the children know the difference between the real and the imitation." CERTAIN TALKING MACHINES TOO MUCH FOR PEOPLE OF MARION, O. Marion, O., Sept. 9, 1905. Citizens of Marion are up in arms against "talking machines." They have stood for the piano practice and the girl taking lessons in voice culture, but the disc concerns are the limit. The chief complaint seems to be that the machines disturb their nightly slumbers, though some assert that they get tiresome through the daytime, especially as they are forced to hear the same old tune many times a day. A long petition has been presented to the police .protesting that a certain machine was becoming a public nuisance. An investigation will be made. — Hamilton, O., Evening Democrat. In sending the above clipping a Dealer notes : "Recently a show exhibiting int a large tent made a week's stand in this city. They had a disc machine which they used throughout the show. It was awful — both show and disc." A DEALER'S WAY OF ADVERTISING RECORDS. Turner's Falls, Mass., Sept. 7, 1005. I have an advertising sheet that I am sending out every month. This has proven very profitable to me. I am getting mail orders from Vermont and New Hampshire. If I get hold of a party who has ever even told his friend or neighbor that he was going to get a Phonograph sometime I enter his name on my list and send him the circulars, together with a Phonogram each month. I have got enough sales from this sheet so far to pay for its cost for years. It will help others as it helps me. G. A. Gove. The sheet referred to was a circular 8^ x 11 inches in size. At the top was printed Mr. Gove's letter head. Below it were the words "Edison September Records Received Today." Then followed a brief description of about a dozen of what Mr. Gore considered the best in the September list. The descriptions were condensed from those in the August Phonograph Monthly. IN THE REALM OF MUSIC AND SONG. Robert M. Reese, of Hamilton, Ohio, sends a show bill and programme of a Phonograph entertainment given by him recently. It was announced as a "Grand Double Phonograph Entertainment by the Edison Concert Co. One hundred and twenty minutes in the realm of music and song. The prince of entertainers— The Phonograph — will delight its hearers with : Exquisite operatic selections, charming melodies, famous band and orchestral productions, comic and sentimental songs, recitations— comic and dramatic ; and everything in the way of pleasures that appeals to the sense of hearing." The programme included forty-eight specially selected Edison Records.