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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1916
Page
5
Four walkers played a cardless poker using license tag numbers as cards. The group described hands from two to six players as tags passed by cars formed five figure hands, with high tags winning. The piece notes the thrill and potential gambling danger yet treats it as a novel amusement.
A German inventor patents a tone-protection principle to humanize the voice of talking machines. The cabinet lining of cocous fibre hermetically seals the unit, fibre washers for tonearm joints, and a fibre base for the record, aiming to reduce shrill metallic sounds and improve remaining musical tone.
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