Fact #59108
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An advertisement in today's edition of The Indiana Progress newspaper of Indiana, Philadelphia, USA, declares Edison's Phonograph (gramophone) to be "better than a piano, organ or music box, for it sings and talks as well as plays and don't cost as much. It reporoduces the music of any instrument - band or orchestra - tells stories and sings - the old familiar hymns as well as the popular songs."
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