The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1908)

Edison Phonograph Monthly, Sept., 1908 7 This campaign procession won't elect the president. Not a man in it is old enough to vote. They all came out of an ink bottle on Thursday of last week. But they will elect you if you say so. This is how. Send a postal card to your list of Phonograph owners and prospective Phonograph buyers. On the front print this campaign procession. (If you will mail the post cards, we will send you the cut to print the illustration, free. It is No. 698.) On the back print: "Among the twenty-two Edison Records by William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft are ten Edison Records personally dictated by the next President of the United States. Come and hear them." Then add your name and address — and be ready to sell a lot of Records, not only Taft and Bryan Records, but as many other Records as your visitors hear in your store. Any Dealer who set Smiling Sambo to rattling bones for him last month, on a postal card, is rattling bones of a different sort in his cashdrawer now, and will send for the election parade at once. If you missed Smiling Sambo last month, turn to page 10 of the last (August) issue of the Monthly and look over the opportunity you lost. To any Dealer so short-sighted that he didn't even read the August issue, we will send, on request, another copy of the August issue. Harry Lauder's New Records The four new Edison Records by Harry Lauder, which are listed on page 29, include his latest song successes. They are in every way equal to the Lauder Records issued last February. Judging from the way orders are pouring in the new lot will outsell the earlier one. There is no Record artist whose songs at all resemble Lauder's. He is really and truly one of the world's cleverest entertainers. Important Notice {Copy of letter mailed to entire traded On and after October 1st, 1908, (unless extended as hereinafter provided), we will refuse to fill orders for Edison Phonograph and Records from Jobbers or Dealers who may handle other lines of cylinder machines and cylinder records, except such other cylinder machines as may have been taken in exchange for Edison Phonographs as permitted by our agreement. In order that entire justice may be done to any Jobbers or Dealers who may have in stock considerable quantities, of other cylinder machines and cylinder records, we will, upon written application in any particular case, consent to an extension of this time to December 1st, 1908, in which to dispose of such stocks, but in no case will we supply Edison Phonographs and Records to Jobbers and Dealers who after October 1st, 1908, may continue to purchase other cylinder machines and cylinder records. FRANK L. DYER, President. August 1st, 1908. The above letter to Edison Jobbers and Dealers requires no explanation. It is intended to benefit the trade as well as ourselves. It will benefit the trade because it will make it impossible for Jobbers and Dealers to hereafter permit themselves to be stocked up with a lot of cylinder goods that have small sale and pay no profit. No longer will it be possible to play one Dealer against another and thereby compel one of them to put in a stock that he really does not want. It will benefit us because it will make every new line build up its own business and not trade on ours, which has taken years of work and the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to establish. We do not fear any competition that stands on its own merit and succeeds because of its own endeavors.