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About Polk County itemizer. (Dallas, Or.) 1879-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1908)
y\ Why Don’ t 13 Get This Phonograph For almost three years I have been making the most liberal phonograph offer ever known 1 I have given hosts of people the opportunity of hearing the genuine Edison Phonograph right in their own homes without a cent of cost to them. Think o f i t ! Thousands and thousands and thousands o f people have been given the opportunity to hear in their own parlors concerts and entertainments hy world famous musicians, just such entertainments as the greatest metropolitan theatres are producing. So far you have missed all this. W hy? Possibly you don’t quite understand my offer yet. Listen— I will srnd you this Genuine Edison Standard Outfit (the newest model) com plete with one dozen Edison Gold Moulded Records, for an absolutely free trial. I don't ask any money down or in advance. There are no C. O. D. shipments; no leases or mortgages on the outfit ; n o papers of any sort to sign. Absolutely nothing but a plain out-and-out offer to ship you this phonograph together with a dozen r e c o r d s o f y o u r own selection on a free trial so that you can hear it and play it in your own home. I can’t make this offer any plainer, any clearer, any better than it fs. There Is no catch about it anywhere. stop and think just a moment, you w ill realize that the high standing of this concern would absolutely prohibit auythlng except a straightforward offer. I f you will . I know that there are thousands and thousands o f people who have never beard the Genuine Edl.vcn Phonograph. N early e v e ry o n e is fam iliar with the screechy, un natural sounds produced by the Imitation machines (.some of which though inferior are very expensive». After Pouring the <-Id stylo and imitation machines people become prejudiced against all kinds o f ' Talking Machines.’ ’ Now, there’s only ono way to convince these people that tho Kdison is superior, and that is to let the people actually see and bear this I can’t t o ll you one-twentieth of tho wonders o f tlie Kdison. Nothing I cun say or write will make you actually h o a r the grand, full beauty o f its tones. No words can b e g in to describe tho Lender, delicate sweetness with which the genuine new style Kdison reproduces the soft,, pleading notes of tho flute, or the thunderous, crashing harmony of u full brass band selection. Tho wonders of the new style Kdison defy the power o f any pen to describe. Neither will I trvto tell you how. when you’ re tired, nervousand blue, the Edison will soothe you, comfort and rest you, and give you new strength to take up the burdens o f lifo afresh. The only way to make you actually realize these things fo r yourself is to loan uou a Genuine Edison Phonograoh free and let you try it- \ \ *> 2 $ A ll I ask you to do is to invite as many as possible of your friends to hear this won derful new style Edison. You will want to do that anyway, because you will be giving them genuine pleasure. I feel absolutely certain that out of the number of your friends who wiil hear your machine there will be at least one and probably more who will want an Edison of their own. If they don’ t, if not a single one of them orders a Phonograph (and this sometimes happens) I won’ t blame you in the slightest. I shall feel that you have done your part when you have given these free concerts. You won’t be asked to act as our agent or even assist in the sale of a singlo instrument. In fact we appoint no such agents and at the rock-bottom price on this wonderful new outfit we could not allow any commission to anyone. The Phonorfrnph—that is if you wish to mate the Phonograph your own, you may do so. but it is not compulsory. This is a free trial. You may send it back at our expense if you wish. I won’ t be surprised, however, if you wish to keep the machine after having it in your own home. If you do wish to keep if. cither remit us the price in full, or if yon prefer, we will allow you to pay for it on the easiest kind of payments. Just sign your name and address on this There are so many people who really coupon now. and mail it to us. 1 will want a phonograph but who do not --- send you our superbly illustrated Edi son Phonograph Catalog, the very latest list of have the ready cash to pay for it all at once that I have Edison Gold Moulded Records (over 1,500 decided on an easy payment plan that gives you absolute of them) and our Free Trial Certificate use of the phonograph while paying for it. |2.00 a month entitling you to this grand offer. pays for an outfit. There is absolutely no lease or Sign this coupon or send pos mortgage of any kind, no guarantee from a third tal or letter now. No obli party, no going before a notary public, in fact, no gations, just get the cata publicity of any kind, and the payments are so logs. This Trade-Mark appears on each machine very small, and our terms so liberal . - -------- that you never notice the payments. F .L BI8S0N, Edison Phon. Oistrib'rs, Edison Block, Dept 2 2 0 8 CHICAGO
