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Stories & Pictures from Local Dealers/Jobbers:
C.H. Freeman:
"DEALERS WHO WILL CO-OPERATE.
Gentlemen: — In acknowledging the receipt of the list of suspended Dealers, I wish to congratulate you on the firmness of the Company in weeding out the price cutters. I realize that it must be very trying and difficult at times to procure the necessary evidence against a certain class of agreement breakers. I can see from the list that you have been persistently after them.
C. H. Freeman.
Bloomington, Ill., May 2, 1903." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 13]
H.C. Lentz:
"DEALERS WHO WILL CO-OPERATE.
Gentlemen: — I acknowledge the receipt of Suspended List of April 1, and fully expect to co-operate with you. I want to thank you for the 'addresses' of parties concerning Phonographs, etc. I am more than pleased with your Phonograph Monthly, and understand now the cause of the delay in not receiving my March order. I am pleased to note the great increase in your business. It shows the people know a good thing.
H. C. Lentz.
Cairo, Ill., May 3, 1903." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 13]
John Pfleuger:
"KIND WORDS ABOUT THE MONTHLY.
John Pfleuger, 899 N. Talmon Avenue, Chicago.
I did not receive the first issue of the Edison Phonograph Monthly. Please send me one. Have been expecting something of this kind for a long time, and it has come at last. It is a great benefit to us Dealers. It keeps us out of trouble with customers on many points which they argue with us." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 10]
The Vim Co.:
"PROGRESSIVE ADVERTISING.
THE past month has seen some most progressive Phonograph advertising on the part of several enterprising Jobbers. Plenty of advertising in a local manner has been done for a long time, but few have taken up the matter in a general way. In February the Vim Company, of Chicago, came out with a very attractive advertisement in Collier's Weekly, of New York City...All of the above advertising has been done entirely by the firms named and without any arrangement or understanding of any kind with this Company. In no case was it even suggested and except in one instance we did not know of the' advertising until it appeared in print. Credit for the enterprise is alone due these firms. They know the merit of the Edison Phonograph and have been willing to expend large sums to further its sale." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 4]
Bowen the Jeweler:
"UNIQUE 'ADS' OF LIVE DEALERS." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 6]
"KIND WORDS ABOUT THE MONTHLY.
W. A. Bowen, Kewanee, III.:
We thank you for the compliment paid us in bringing our efforts out so nicely in placing our 'ad' in your April Edison Phonograph Monthly. It's a fine publication. We wish you all kinds of success and predict that flattering results will follow in the furthering of your immense business. We carry other machines in stock because we cannot get rid of them or close them out at any price." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 10]
C.A. Dodds:
"GLAD TO PUSH EDISON GOODS.
C. A. Dodds, Dealer, at Patoka, Ill., writes under date of May 2d:
Yours of the 29th ult. advising me of the request of [redacted] [redacted], of Vandalia, Ill., is at hand. I thank you for the same, and have written him to-day. Rest assured he will hear from me until he either buys or concludes not to buy. This feature is one of the several that makes a Dealer glad to push Edison goods, and especially so when they are his favorite, as is the case here." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 10]
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