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
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I paused long in meditation on the scene, till aroused from my revery by the blare of a graphophone from a resort across the street.
From Fly Fishing in Wonderland by Klahowya
The place is buzzing with soldiers, a game of billiards is going on in one corner and in another a graphophone is never allowed one moment's rest.
From A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall by Katherine Shortall
"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
And after that they wound up the graphophone and heard a lovely song, which I’m going to tell to you because it was so pretty.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
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