The Edison phonograph monthly (Jan-Dec 1909)

20 Edison Phonograph Monthly, March, 1909 this. I want you to make me a list of your favorite Records. I am asking this of each talking machine owner in this section of the country. When my replies are all received I will make up a list of Favorite Records and mail you one. This will, no doubt, interest you and may aid you in making your future Record selections. Look over your Records, put down the numbers of your favorites and send them to me at once. I will do as much to accommodate you when I can. E. A. Koony, Wintsboro, N. Y. — I would like to see an article in the Phonograph Monthly on "A Form for Installment Plan on Phonographs." Would be willing to pay for printed contracts furnished by you. The things I liked best in the January issue were the "Other 13,000," "Store Management" and Editorial comments. [Our own Legal Department states that it is unable to supply us with any one form that can safely be used in all States for instalment sales. If such a form can be supplied to us by any one in the trade familiar with the subject, we will be very glad to get out such a form as you suggest. The laws in different States vary to a great extent, and we would not care to make ourselves responsible for a single form that Dealers in all States might use. Nor would we care to get up a form for each State, for this is a task that our Legal Department refuses to undertake. It has always seemed to us that the matter was one that must be looked after by the Dealers in each State and not by manufacturers like ourselves, who cannot safely undertake the work.] Do Edison Records Last When a customer asks if Edison Records last, mention the following testimony of Mr. E. A. Williams, Jackson, Mich.: "Four years ago my cousin purchased an Edison, and I happened to be here at the time, and helped pick out his records, about one hundred. Many of these Records have since dropped out of the lists and I have been anxious to get a few of my old favorites for my collection. "Last week I made a deal with my cousin and I am now in possession of sixteen fouryear-old 'Gold Moulded' Records. "They are every bit as good as when I last heard them (four years ago), they are not worn, still retain their full, rich tone. "They take me back to the time they came out and I would not part with them at ten dollars a Record." One of our Dealer friends writes us concerning a prospective customer who called at the store to hear the new Amberol Records. Two or three were played over for the delighted listener, after which he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye: "If these Records are Amberol, it strikes me that all others are Fol-der-ol." My trade in Edison Phonographs has been very satisfactory. I am in a little country town of 200 population, and the first fourteen months I sold over $2,000 worth of Edison Phonographs and Records. I have now sold over $3,000. My trade is all with farmers, and I have not lost one dollar and have less than fifty dollars standing out. — O. R. Beckwith, Dodgeville, Ohio. Trade Bulletins Suspended List, Feb. 20, 1909 Superseding All Previous Lists This list is supplemental to the Suspended Lists which appeared in the June, 1908, and succeeding issues of the Edison Phonograph Monthly. These are still in force and must be given the consideration by the Trade as if reprinted in full herewith. CAL., San Francisco — Lubbe Bros. IOWA, Manning — Dr. L. F. Moser (Dr. Moser's Drug Store). MAINE, Gouldsboro — F. H. Strout. N. J., Hoboken — E. Pennino & E. Ricciardi. Trenton — Howard Cycle Co. NEW MEX., East Las Vegas — R. M. Mountford. OREG., Cottage Grove — Conner & Cochran. Medford — Morton (or Merton) Elwood. PENNA., Spring City— Harvey A. Heck. VT., East Hardwick — W. S. Wright. Fairfax — W. J. Trombly. Hardwick — H. F. Cummings. CANADA, Prince Albert, Sask.— G. W. Baker. REINSTATED. CAL., San Diego — The Wiley B. Allen Co. YA.. Covingtoj* — Covington Furniture Co. Jobbers and Dealers are asked not to supply any of the above named firms with our apparatus, at addresses given or any other address. [copy of letter mailed to entire trade under date of february 15, i909.] About Deductions for Broken Records Our attention has been called to the fact that some Dealers when paying their accounts to their Jobbers, are arbitrarily making deductions for Records broken in transit, and for which Jobbers are in no way responsible. On September 18th, 1907, we notified our Dealers of a reduction of one (1) cent each on Edison Records, the change in price being made effective, not only to insure Dealers a better margin of profit, but to cover any possible loss by breakage in transit. Deductions made by any Dealer as above are unfair and unjust, and in future will not be entertained by any Jobber, nor will our Jobbers be permitted to allow such claims.