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Old Phonograph Sparks Townwide Nostalgia in Early Music
A reminiscence recalls the screeching sound of the old talking machine and its big morning glory horn. The family owning the device became town favorites as children and adults enjoyed the machine. Many songs from those days echoed in modern radio and may appear as titles in the pictures below.
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the Gazette
Gazette
The
Pease
Ee S. & W. Loth St Service
Colonial Bread Rainbow Flour & Feed
Sara Park Salon de Beaute Hladky Grocery & Market
Hiltbrunner Music Co. Inc
Security Laboratories
Nutrena
Roosevelt Hotel
Instant Auto
Cone
Wagner Motor Co
Montgomery Ward
Roosevelt
Rowe Electric Co
May
Iowa Machine Co
Cedar Rapids Fuel
Luberger’s
Bishop
Corporaton
Rude Auto Co
Landenberger
Optometrist
Lanranen Pieen Co
Lincoln
Morris Sanford Company
Home Oil & Gas Co
Harper Automoile KeNnizhing
Whiting Dairy Madam Mae’s Beauty Shops
Uned Auto Party Co
Haplds
Chevrolet Co
Family Shoe
Sears Roebuck & Co
Kresge
Paris Academy of Beauty
Home Coal Co