We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, JUNE, 1915
Houston Phonograph
TEXAS NOT BEHIND IN EDISON SALES
The Houston Phonograph Company, whose store interior appears above, have been energetically pushing Edison business ever since the first of the year and are realizing now some good results. They have attractively arranged their store and given especial attention to recitals, following up every inquirer systematically and persistently. Several good sales have been made and more are ready to be closed. Their sale of Edison records, also, has taken a boost and no opportunity is lost to place a record before a prospect.
THE EDISON AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, SAN FRANCISCO
The Pacific Phonograph Co. has placed Edison disc phonographs in a number of State buildings at the Exposition, including the New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio, where they are featured prominently. Besides, there is a machine in the Y. W. C. A. building and also one in the Edison Battery exhibit in the Palace of Transportation, which gives the Edison products notable representation at the Exposition.
Some of the cabinets are of special finish, to match the furnishing of the rooms in which they are located. Demonstrators are being sent to the exposition by the Edison interests and advantage is being taken of every opportunity to advance the popularity of the Edison product.
Co., Houston, Texas
UNDERTAKERS APPRECIATE THE EDISON DISC
THE difficulty, especially in small towns, of securing suitable music for funeral services has been a serious handicap to many whose duty it is to provide for these last rites. It is not possible, often times, to secure a singer for love or money, especially if the funeral happens in the summer months when singers are away and church choirs are on a vacation. Another draw back is the expense, which many cannot afford.
B. C. Wallace, the leading undertaker at Stockton, Cal., has recently purchased an Edison disc expressly for funerals. So far, its use has been eminently successful. He has the instrument placed in a separate room and it is impossible to tell the singing from the actual living voice. He is very much pleased with it and has had many favorable comments. Among the records suitable, he finds:
80074 Dreams of Galilee
Nearer My God to Thee 80177 Abide With Ale
Leave Me to Languish 80127 One Sweetly Solemn Thought
Lead Kindly Light 82511 Ave Maria
Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer 80225 Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Day of Resurrection It is our purpose to record other religious selections appropriate for such occasions.
The instrument was sold to 'Branchs," Stockton, Cal.
Mr. Wallace by