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

A graphophone, with records of Melba, Sembrich, Caruso, and other operatic stars, made the rounds of a menagerie.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

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