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Popular vocalist Elsie Baker records Pickaninny's Lullaby, I Know A
Lovely Garden and Ye Who Have Yearned Alone, for Victor
Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Male vocal duo Henry
Burr and Albert
Campbell record In A Little While and I'm Going Back To Old
Virginia for Victor
Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The Victor Talking Machine Company registers the name Victrolette in the USA, as a trademark for phonographs and records.
Under the headline 'Philadelphia Bans the Trot', The New York Times
announces that civic leaders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, have banned the playing of music [usually ragtime jazz] which could result in an outbreak of either of two currently popular [and apparently reprehensible] dances - the 'turkey trot' and the 'grizzly bear'. According to the article, "it is understood that the two dances have all but caused several scandals in some of Philadelphia's best families."