Nightingale voice first heard on Edison Bell record
The Observer notes the first public listen to Florence Nightingale’s voice on a gramophone record after nine months of work by Howard Flynn of Edison Bell. The 1890 wax cylinder recording, preserved and now electromechanically reproduced, marks a milestone for early sound archives.
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Observer
London
Florence ‘Nightingale
Howard Flynn
Edison Bell Gramophone Record Company
Miss Nightingale
Colonel Douraud
British Broadcasting Corporation
Mr. Flynn
Flynn
Sniper Rampage Strikes Across New York City
A mystery shooter firing 22 caliber bullets from rooftops has killed four people in different city areas. Victims include Macagnone and Badalamante near Bowery and a mother of three, Yetta Einhorn, killed outside a bakery. A later window was struck with a similar bullet and Nathan Ellentuck died near a golf club.
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New York
Macagnone
William Badalamante
Bowery
Badalamante
Yetta Einhorn
Einhorn's
Nathan Ellentuck
Rabbit skins at Sydney sales show weak demand and lower prices
Rabbit skin offerings at Wednesday’s Sydney sale totaled 134 tons. Opening values were steady to down, closing prices 1d to 2d per lb lower than the previous week. Winters reached 63 3d per lb with various grades listed. hare and fox skins also moved but demand varied. Thieves who broke into Lady Janet Duff’s Wilton house near Salisbury stole jewellery saved from Christmas crackers for distribution to poor children.
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Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Sydney
Janet Duff
Wilton
Salisbury
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Gloucester
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Moore’s
Modern Pharmacy
Vest OF England
W. Batger
Church Street
P. Sydney
TOM &B
Pittson & Badgery Ltd
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