Making Home Cheerful with Edison Phonograph Entertainment
An advertiser extols Edison phonographs and Gold Moulded Records as a home entertainment boon. It touts vast record choices from vaudeville to opera, describes superior sound, durability, and the ability to host concerts at home with a device cheaper than piano or organ. Readers are offered sample programmes and the promise of lasting mementos from personal recordings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
Sousa
Strauss
Edison
Free Edison phonogram month ly offer to owners
FREL to all owners of phonographs who state style and number of their machine we will send free prepaid copy of the Edison Phonogram Monthly telling you how to make your machine play better how to oil it how to make your own records etc Many valuable pointers free We also exchange genuine Edison phonographs for old talking machines.
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Edison
Edison Phonograph
Rumford Falls and its magnates shaping a thriving mill town
The article portrays Rumford Falls as a model town built around paper mills led by Hugh J. Chisholm. It highlights low taxes, well kept premises, ideal streets, and cottages for workers. The Falls power source rivals Niagara in height, fueling growth, hotels, and patient investment from wealthy backers.
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Rumford Falls
Niagara
Chisholm
Rumford Falls A Bustling Western Boom Town
The city, with about 7900 inhabitants, shows steady growth as suburbs spread and bridges link districts. From hotel windows, observers glimpse logs on the river and canal fed to mills and eventual shipment of newspapers, underscoring the town’s active industry and expansion.
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Rumford Falls
Venice
New Golf Rule Leads to Accidental Hit
Dennis O Flannahn was struck from behind by a golf ball near a links. A golfer calls fore as warning and O Flannahn jokes that the later foive signals a hit on the nose, reflecting a quippy exchange over golf safety and language.
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Dennis O’flannhan
Dennis
Pygmies Arrive in London From Congo Expedition
London crowds eye six pygmies from the Ituri forests brought by Colonel Harrison. The men average 4 feet 6 inches, women about 4 feet, with no religion and peculiar customs. They were measured by anthropologists and display surprising intelligence and skill in ironworking.
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London
Africa
Harrison
Ituri
Belgium Congos
Ituri Forest
Stanley Forest
Europe
Colonel Harrison
Khartoum
Inter
Cairo
Little Man in Greenland Builds and Sails His First Kaiak
A Greenland boy eleven years old learns to paddle harpoon, seal skin boat, and survival skills. His father guides him from carving the kaiak to stitching a waterproof suit, then watches the boy master rough seas and right himself after capsizes. The tale underscored by proud family praise and future hunting prospects.
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Uncle Sam
West Coast
Greenland
Chevy
Dark Sea
Electric power storage breakthrough from a Roman inventor
An Italian? or Roman electrician Adolph Tome claims a breakthrough in storing electrical energy that cuts transmission loss to about two percent over long distances. He envisions supplying Paris with heat light and power from Swiss waterfalls at a price that could collapse existing electric companies.
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Adolph Tome
Paris
Switerland
Dialogue of Night Serenade Cat Joke
A schoolroom exchange defines dialogue as a conversation with two or more participants. A bright pupil offers a playful example about a cat going out at night to serenade other cats, illustrating the concept with humor.
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Bob Roberts
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Kathleen Mavourneen
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Albert Benzier
Frank C. Stanley
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Ison
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Holy City
Charles D’almaine
Anthony and
Refuge
Mendelssohn
Gustavus Babson
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Depa
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Maine
Androscoggin
Hugh J. Chisholm
Laine
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Roureushee
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Chicago
Anne
Theople
Géer Gmens
Geltveriner
Lehali
K B. Hale
Webster Groves
Elkins
Bedford, Lad
Rosner
Jona Kent
Grandview, Wis
J. M. von
Yenne
Wis
J. W. Elwood
Farnum St
Omaha
Nebr
Ellison
Tacoma
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