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RECREA TION. 



As to the improved GRAM = 0= PHONE 



ZON=0=PHONE 



Do not confound it with anything of a similar name or nature 



It isn't a " business " machine 

 You don't "talk into it" 



Its sole purpose is that of Entertainment- 

 Reproducing Everything in Speech or Music, with 

 fidelity to the originals positively marvelous 



Suited alike to Parlor, Lawn, Yacht, or 

 Exhibition Hall. With an ordinary horn it 

 has been heard in every part of the great Metro- 

 politan Opera House, New York. Its cornet 

 solos have been heard two miles. 



Our records are made by experts, from 

 actual performances of the most celebrated 

 instrumentalists, bands, singers, actors, and 

 orators in the world. 



These records, instead of being wax, to 

 be kept in cotton, and handled as if they were 

 egg-shells, are on hard, flat disks which are 

 practically indestructible — the only perma= 

 nent records made. 



As a guarantee of authenticity each record 

 (except a few of the earliest ones) is signed. 

 Among the records whose genuineness is thus 

 attested by the autographs of their makers are 

 those of 



HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW JOSEPH JEFFERSON REV. T. DEWITT TALMAOE 



ADA REHAN DWIGHT L. .MOODY JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS 



SOUSA'S BAND, BAND A ROSSA, ETC. 



CAUTION 



The unprecedented popularity of the IMPROVED GRAMOPHONE 

 (ZON-O-PHONE), as a means of entertainment has led to many attempts 

 at imitation, some of which are most unscrupulous; but the principles 

 upon which the GRAMOPHONE is constructed are covered by patents 

 so broad that anything of the same nature approaching it in excellence 

 must be an infringement, and as such will be promptly prosecuted. 



This applies not only to manufacturers and dealers, but to USERS ; 

 and, pending suits already brought, the public are warned against purchas- 

 ing that which may cause them much annoyance. 



Price of the Improved Gramophone (Zon-o-phone) is invariably 

 TWENTY=FIVE DOLLARS. Records 50 cents. For further infor- 

 mation, catalogue of records, printed matter, etc., address NATIONAL 

 GRAMOPHONE COMPANY, 874 Broadway, New York. 



Actual subscribers to Recreation, those whose names are on our books, can 

 obtain the Zon-o-phone (improved Gramophone) at once, by the payment of $5 

 cash and $3 per month. The National Gramophone Company agree, if the instru- 

 ment is not satisfactory, to refund the money, less express charges, if returned 

 immediately. G. O. Shields, Publisher " Recreation." 



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