graphophone
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
Great is the graphophone, advance agent of civilization!
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton
One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines.
From Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls by Turner-Zimmermann, Jean
"I've got a kodak an' a graphophone an' a lot o' Milliken's cough syrup with the recipe——" "Why there!" cried Phœbe, exultantly.
From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele
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