SPECIAL-THE TALKINC MACHINE JOBBERS' CONVENTION SINGLE COPIES. IS GENTS VOL. IV.No. 7. SEVENTY-TWO PAGES PER YEAR, ONE DOLLAR Imm:&ENIKIN 9dPmkt AND saMaSk& NOVELTY NEWS wt.c.D...11.L.r) Published Each Month by Edward Lyman Bill at1 Madison Avenue, New York, July15, 1908 The STAR Talking Machine is theone machine that has any real claim on the attention of the prospective purchaserthe only one that hasan individuality the onlyone which embodies really fresh conceptions. SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD ss. The retailer who persuadesa customer who wants a STAR to take something " equally as good " does a wrong both to the customer and to the manufacturer. It is, of course, very weak ina purchaser to allow himself to be over -persuaded, but many men and more women are so constituted as to be easily influenced, and unscrupulous retailers are keen to take advantage of this fact. The wrong done to the manufacturer is obvious.He spends time andmoney in developing his product by costly experiments and by almost endlessmoney spent in patents, besides creating ade- mand for his,wares.Substitution deprives him of his just reward. The customer is also defrauded. An imitation lacks the essential points of merit whichare protected by patents granted by this and foreign governments, whichcan he used only on a machine made by theowner of these patents.Besides, if another similar device is betteror just as good, it should not have to obtain recognition by using another'ssuccess by which to climb to its own. "Just as good isnever true and is always costly. Howard and Jefferson Streets, Hawthorne & Sheble ManufacturingCo.,PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A, Entered104 aecond-class matter May 2,1903, at the peatifil< at N, Srh,N.V.,under the set of Congress of March 3,1873, THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD The Sound is OntoStay The We Public Guarantee Wants ES R B No Them RECORDS Breakage 35cEach 35c Each Convenient to Handle by our exclusive process our records are 1.The Tone is Better -because a perfect reproduction of the wax masters. the perfect firmness of our material throw 2. The Volume is Greater -because all the vibration into the reproducer. there is no breaking down in the walls and 3.The Reproduction is Truer-because ridgesofthevibrations,whichalways happens with wax records. 4.Our New Reproducer in- the spring tension causes the wedge-shaped creases the Musical Value sapphire point to cling and follow perfectly the sound waves on the record, imparting to of our Records --because the wooden diaphragm all the qualities of tone as well as the increased volume of sound. ESTABLISHED LIST OF JOBBERS : ABERDEEN, S. D., FORT SMITH, ARK., PHILADELPHIA, PENNA , McArthur Piano Company. R. C. Bollinger. 704 Garrison Avenue. Musical Echo Co., 1217 Chestnut Street. ALBANY, N. Y., HELENA, MONT., PITTSBURG. PENNA., Fincl. S Hahn, 92 State Street. Curtin's Music House, 13 \Vest Sixth Avenue. Powers Henry Co., 3311Second Avenue. BIRMINGHAM, .\LA., LINCOLN, NEB., sACRANIENTo, Talking Machine Company, 201)7 Second Avei ue. II.E. Sidles Phono. Co. A. J. Pommer Co., 529 3Street. BOSTON, MASS., LOUISVILLE, KY., \ VANNAH. GA., Mass. Indestructible Record Co., 72 Bedford Street. Montenegro-Riehm Music Co., 523 Third Avenue. Knight Drug Co., 103 Broughton Street. BROOKLYN, N. V., MEMPHIS, TENN., IIENECTAOY, N. Y., American Talking Machine Co., 5S6 Fulton Street. F. M. Atwood, 123 Monroe Avenue. Finch & Hahn, 504 State Street. BUFP.A1.0, N. Y., ST. LOUIS, MO.. W. I). Andrews, seneca Street, cor. Wells. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Thos. C."lough, 714 Hennepin Avenue Conroy Piano Co., 110u Olive Street. BURLINGTON, VT., J. K. Savage Stipp!) Co.. 921 Franklin Avenue. MO 111 LE. AC V, It.C. smith S Cu., 6s Church Street. W. II. Reynolds, 167 Dauphin Street. ---101./N CITY, IOWA, CHM 1.\NOOGA, TENN., Early Nlia,ic llousr. Standard Music Co ,9.11East Eighth Street. NASHVILLE, TENN., Magruder & Co., 27 The Arcade SIOUX FALLS, S. D., CHICAGO, ILL., 0. C. Cadwell & Co., 127 Phillips Avenue, James 1Lyons, 265 Path Avenue. NEW ARK, N. .1., Edisottia Co., 57 Halsey Street. SYRACUSE, N. Y., CINCINNATI, 01110, W. D. Andrews, 21tZ East Railroad Street. Pal Co., 108 East Third Street. NEWARK, 01110, TERRE HAUTE, IND., Ball-Fintze Co., 12 Canal Street. wabash Music I I L\ LLAND, 0/110, 523 WabashAvenue. Lc1:1,se .Musical Co., 1570 East Ninth Street. NEW HAVEN, CONN., 101.E1)0, 01110, i.i/t,t; \II/US, OHIO, A. B. Clinton to., 33 Church Street. 55 hitney & Currier Co l',.rry R. WI itsit, 209 South high Sue, t NEW ORLEANS, 1.A., TRoY, N. N., 01.5 MOINES, IOWA, Nat'lutomatie Firc Morm Co., 614.61C Gravier St. Finch & Halm, 3'Third street. 11,.14:1 Lros., 618.620 L ,cult Street. NEW ORK, t ITN, M0.11 . Itullenkan p. 1122 Columbus Avenue. so Ph ,I.O. CO., I06 55 .odw td Menu Ben,'Swilky, 27 Fast Fourteenth Street. CANADA ny1;t:OL T., IOWA. OM \ ILA, N E Ilk It \I.11.\. N. Main `4tiot Piano Myer Co., s-vti d Douglas Streets. J.A. Mel/on:11d Piano & Music Co., 41 Barringt,,, \IEDICINE 11.5T, \LBERTA, .chrrine's Book stm \os,nilioa Music House Send to your Jobber for our Reproducer Booklet and ask for Terms to Dealers TheIndestructiblePhonographicRecordCo. ALBANY, NEW YORK The TalkingMachine World Vol. 4.No. 7. New York, July 15, 1908. Price Ten Cents PHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT CAMERA. gates and immediately in front of the platformcompetent assistance.Help is plentiful enough, were four blackdiscs,looped by wires andbut not the right kind.This results in the pro- Prof. Lippmann Discovers MethodofDirect joined by a small central cable leading from theprietors of any business being forced to look Picture -Taking on the Film-Studied Eye ofhall.Many wondered at these discs, believingafter most of the details, and this is wearing. a Fly-Gets Perspective and Relief Withoutthem to be a part of the system for electricalI have been in business now nine years, and am Stereoscopic Process-Film Contains Multi-display. completely tired out, and therefore I am glad to tude of Facets. They were a combination of telephone andget away for a while.This drawback no one phonograph, taking up the proceedings as theycan get away from. When I rejoin my wife in Professor Lippmann,of the Sorbonne, accordingoccurred and transmitting each speech and eachEurope we shall stay there for some time.I am to dispatches from Paris, has just made a discov-burst of applause.According to the reports onefrom Bohemia, and this will be the first time I ery which willrevolutionizetheart ofpho- of the wires was cut into the- White House andhave been back in 16 years. tography. When his discovery has been perfect.the President in person, with the receiver to his "The talking machine business in Brazilis ed in a few of its details, cameras may be doneear, caught the words of Lodge as he electrified growing rapidly.Records sell differently in dif- away with, and the photograph will give thethe vast assemblage and theechoingshoutsferent places.In Sao Paulo nine -tenths of the same effect of relief and perspective which canwhich followed. population are Italians, and therefore operatic be secured now only by use of the stereoscope. selections are in demand.In Rio the Portu- For the sake of the uninitiated it may be men- THEY'D USE A TALKING MACHINE. guese are the predominating people and their tioned that it was Professor Lippmann who first sales arefor other records, generallyinstru- discoverd color photography.His latest discov-How the Kansas City School Board Would Savemental and native and popular airs.The Co- ery is no less extraordinary. Money for Drills. lumbia Co. are making a special line of records "The constitution of a photographic apparatus," that will be shipped at once. Before I went into (Special to The Talking Machine World.) business for myself I bought goods outright and said the professor, discussing his discovery, "is Kansas City, Mo., June 30, 1908. analogous in many respects to that of the human Pianist or graphophone?That's one of thesold them throughout Brazil, then handling a eye. great many Edison machines and records." As a result, if we wish to obtain perspec-questions the school board debated atitslast tive and relief we are forced to use the stereo-meeting, and it couldn't come to a decision. Sefior Figner uses excellent English, speaking scope. briskly and employing terse, expressive terms. I was long convinced, however, that if I The question was whether Miss Grace Slocomb, could produce the image as it appears on the eye who plays the piano for the calisthenic drills atHe has all the appearance of an aggressive, suc- of a flyI should have my stereoscopiceffectthe Manual Training High School, should becessful man who stillretains aninterestin direct.The eye of this class of insect, as youcontinued on the payroll at a salary of $300 ahuman nature and the enjoyments of life. know, is composed of a large number of minuteyear. facets.Each of these facets reproduces a corner "Why should we continue to pay a salary like TIME TO ACT IS NOW. of the object or landscape presented toit. Thethis, when we can get a fine, large talking ma- ensemble of the facets gives the complete pic- Don't Postpone 'Till To -morrow What You Can chine to do the work for $75 down?" suggested do To -day Pays in Business. ture.I therefore set to work to find some prep-Hale H. Cook, a member of the board."It's ex- aration which would give a similar result.