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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1878
Page
4
A dramatic meditation on mortality opens with a phonograph voice and a family scene then shifts to a meditation on loss. Death spares no rank, revealing a common dominion over wealth, power, and status. The passage ends with the signature Evelyn.
The report details Edison showing a doorway to a new phonograph system with a circular plate and clockwork replacing the cylinder. He envisions a New York publication office and products from music to novels read aloud by elocutionists, with electrotyped copies and parlor use, plus an aid for the blind. Also noted is Daniel McFarland, acquitted in New York eight years ago, said to work in a South Bend wagon factory.
A social essay on marriage notes that after wedding life many wives find husbands neglect the small daily courtesies once given by lovers. The husband’s indifference shows most in public and private settings, while wives try to maintain home and affection with limited complaint, often due to thoughtlessness or upbringing.
A collage of brief items notes editorial tools praise for phonographs, Frances Hodgson Burnett book sale offers, James Gordon Bennett voyage praise, Grant and Brugsch Bey remarks, Dartmouth hazing incidents with arrests, and Hayes Silver Bill veto sequence reported by Medill with cabinet secrecy and timing details.
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