Ohio

Stories & Pictures from Local Dealers/Jobbers:

Ilsen & Co.:

"C. W. N. HANDBOOK.

ONE of the features of the Phonogram a year or more ago was a series of articles, running through about fourteen numbers, by C. W. Noyes, of Cincinnati, on the use of the Phonograph and the art of making Phonograph Records. These were written from the viewpoint of a man of practical experience and made those issues of the Phonogram much sought after. Mr. Noyes has now re-written the articles, added new material to them and the whole has been published in book form by Ilsen & Co., of Cincinnati. The book contains 78 pages, 5x8, is profusely illustrated and is sold at 50 cents for cloth and 25 cents for paper covers. It is the most up-to-date treatise on the subjects treated. Ilsen & Co. will fill orders for it." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; March 1903; Volume 1, Number 1, Page 4]

"TRADE OPINIONS ON THE MONTHLY.

C. W. Noyes, Ilsen & Co., Cincinnati, O.: — 

I beg to acknowledge receipt of the Edison Phonograph Monthly. I really think this paper will be greatly appreciated by Phonograph dealers in general. The only suggestion I might make that would improve the Monthly would be to give us more of it. I was very sorry to reach the last page. I hope it may grow each month and develop finally into a magazine of twenty-five or thirty pages. I feel sure that there is enough news in the Phonographic world to fill this much space in small type." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 10]

Ray Co.:

"AMONG THE JOBBERS.

The Ray Company branch at Cincinnati has removed from 308 Walnut Street to 143 W. 5th street." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 8]

"AMONG THE JOBBERS.

The Ray Company, of Louisville, during April opened branch stores at Kansas City, Mo., and Toledo, O." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 8]

Elmer O. Bechtolt:

"KIND WORDS ABOUT THE MONTHLY.

Elmer O. Bechtolt, Germantown, O.:

I to-day received No. 2 of the Edison Phonograph Monthly; and have derived much good from a careful perusal. I haven't received No. 1 and ask you to kindly send me same, so that I can keep a complete file of them." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 10]

W.T. Geltz:

"DEALERS WHO WILL CO-OPERATE.

Gentlemen : — We are in receipt of your notice for the trade containing the suspended list of agents and agencies. We are not only glad to acknowledge the receipt of these lists from you from time to time, but we take pleasure in saying that not a cent's worth of goods could possibly be obtained from us by any of the firms mentioned in said list or any of the agencies if we knew it. It could do them no good, as they could only get them at retail price if they would buy them.

I hope that you will continue to pursue 'to a finish' all violators of their contract with the National Phonograph Co.; they should all be stung out of the hives as they are a continuous nuisance and an all around menace to every legitimate Dealer.

Yours respectfully,

W. T. Geltz.

Mansfield, O., May 4, 1903." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 13]

George E. Buss:

"KIND WORDS ABOUT THE MONTHLY.

George E. Buss, New Philadelphia, O.:

I thank you very much for the Edison Phonograph Monthly. It will, in my mind, keep the Phonograph world together." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; May 1903; Volume 1, Number 3, Page 9]

C.F. Jackson Co.:

"AN ENTHUSIASTIC DEALER.

F. J. Collingwood, manager for the C. F. Jackson Co, Dealers at Norwalk, Ohio, under date of January 23, wrote the following letter to this Company, and later he gladly consented to its use in the Monthly: 

National Phonograph Company.

'Gentlemen— I have just finished playing over your selections gotten out for January, and I feel as though I must congratulate you upon your wonderful success in Record making, also your new Model C Reproducer. I have no doubt that you are bothered with similar letters, but I must give vent to my feelings. I have thought every time I have received the Records for each month that I would write you but have not until I received the January list, and they are all so very fine I had to do it. Would say that I have handled the make for several years, but since your new Reproducer came out and your Moulded Records I have no use for the [redacted]. The $25.00 [redacted] machine I sold at $15.00, and their records at fifteen cents to get rid of them, and now handle only the Edison Records and machines. Several evenings in the week I have a machine and Records at my house and ask people to come and hear them. I find it very amusing to see how perfectly carried away they are with the outfit, it being so much better than they could imagine. This has been the means of selling several Edison outfits. I have induced three customers this week to get rid of the [redacted] machine which I had sold them and buy the Edison. People who have been down on talking machines are lovers of the new Edison. I would rather have an Edison Gem than the [redacted] $20.00 or $25.00 machine. I have put them to a test side by side. It seems now as though you must stop trying to get anything better, for some of the Records now seem as if they were better than the real thing.'" [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 5]

J.H. Snyder:

"TRADE OPINIONS ON THE MONTHLY.

J. H. Snyder, Uhrichville [sic], O.: —

The Edison Phonograph Monthly is immense and is something we have been looking for. Every Jobber and Dealer should be proud of it. I for one will not leave a stone unturned to make it a success. * * * We are all one family, and children should assist the father. Let us all put our heads and ideas together and note the results." [Edison Phonograph Monthly; April 1903; Volume 1, Number 2, Page 10]