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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.
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."
The Victor Talking Machine Company registers the name Victrolette in the USA, as a trademark for phonographs and records.
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.