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Phonograph Romance and Childlike Echoes Stir Minneapolis
A Minneapolis man plans a phonograph to record his wife's words during absence and the wife aims to keep a faithful recorder in his office for tracking conversations with “feminine events.” The era envisions linking phonographs with amateur photography to capture infant chatter and childhood memories for posterity. Enthusiasm grows for novel phonograph experiments across the city.
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Ulstary
Minneapolis
Saime
St. Paul