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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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If I Could Talk to You 
If I could walk right into your home and tell you all about 
the wonderful latest style Edison Phonograph, I know that I 
could convince you beyond a doubt that you must have this 
king of entertainers in your home. 
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Standard Outfit—a fine in¬ 
strument—but we also fur¬ 
nish this instrument 
with our special Par¬ 
lor Grand equipment 
at only a small in¬ 
crease in price. 
This Parlor Grand 
equipment is fully 
described in our special 
circular which we send 
free with our catalog. 
Write for this 
circular today. 
This Trade-Mark appears on each machine. 
The phonograph is Mr. Edison's hobby. Although he has sometimes 
disposed of an interest in other inventions, he retains his interest in 
the phonograph. Mr. Edison’s constant attention and experiments 
have made the Edison phonograph a perfect musical instrument. 
And—If I could bring one of these superb new 
Phonographs with me right into your home and let you 
actually hear the wonderful concerts you would 
be convinced without my saying a word. 
But— 
As I can’t bring the Phonograph my¬ 
self, I am going to send it to you at 
my risk —on a free trial. 
Read every word of my offer, see if 
you can imagine an offer more generous, more 
liberal, without my actually giving away the 
Phonograph. Write me today. 
F. K. BABSON. 
The Editor knows this offer 
is genuine. Read what Mr. 
Babson says above. 
I will send the latest style Edison Phonograph on absolutely free trial to any responsible person in the United States. 
I dont ask any deposit or money in advance. We charge no C. O. D. You are under no obligations to buy 
unless you want to. I will consider it a favor if you accept the outfit on free trial. Then why should anybody 
refuse the free trial? At least send your name and address for the free catalog. 
Just send me your name and address on the coupon below. I will mail you the beautiful new Edison Catalog and 
the very latest list of Edison Gold Moulded Records describing over 1,500 selections. I will also send you a beautifully 
engraved Free Trial Certificate made out in your own name. This Certificate entitles you to select any outfit you wish 
from the catalog as well as one dozen of the Edison Gold Moulded Records. Then, just as soon as you notify us of your 
selection, we will pack the whole outfit and ship it to you. 
If after the free trial you do not like the Edison or if you think you 
do not want a phonograph just now, just ship the outfit right back to 
us at our expense and we do not charge you one cent. But if you 
want to keep the phonograph you may either send the cash in full 
or, if you prefer, we will make you this offer: 
$9.00 1 Month 
Now Buys a Genuine 
Edison Phonograph. 
We will allow you to keep 
this Edison Outfit without a 
mortgage or lease or even a 
guarantee from a third party, and pay for it in the very smallest 
monthly payments. We don’t even charge you interest. On this 
generous Easy Payment Plan of ours the Edison Phonograph doesn’t cost you a cent more than it would if you paid the entire amount 
in cash. And the payments are so small that you never miss the money at all and the machine is paid for almost before you know it. 
For Cash in Full: We are ae , ning * hese 
genuine Edison Phono¬ 
graph outfits on time at the very lowest price for which they can 
be bought for cash anywhere. Neither do we charge any in¬ 
terest on time payments. Under these circumstances we cannot 
allow any discount for cash on any Edison Phonograph. 
After the Free Trial ^ 
prefer to pay cash in full for your phonograph or take advant¬ 
age of our easy payment plan. The terms which we are giving 
on our monthly payment offer are the most generous and liberal that 
can be made. Anyway get the free trial certificate and Edison catalogs. 
Write for Free Trial Certificate 
and 
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New 1908 Edison Catalog NOW 
Send us your name and address on the coupon below right away. 
Get our magnificent new Edison Catalog. It is fully illustrated by 
large photographs of all the different Edison models. Get this 
Free Trial Certificate even if you don’t intend to use it right away. 
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Remember all you have to do is to write your name and address plainly 
with either pen or pencil, tear the coupon off and mail it to us. It won’t 
’<? ^ y° u a m i nute to do it now, while if you put it off you will be sure 
*** You are unc ^ er no obligations whatever. The beautiful 
catalogs and the Free Trial Certificate won’t cost you a cent if you 
mXaX. senc * us coupon now. Don’t pass up an offer like this; fill 
^ <kNNV that coupon out right now. 
F. K. BABSON, Edison Phonograph Distributers, 
Edison Building, Suite 3581, Chicago, III. 
Free Concerts in Your Home 
The program below is just a sample of 
the many thousands of beautiful concerts 
which you can give with an Edison Phono¬ 
graph: 
Home Vaudeville. 
0210 IS EVERYBODY HAPPY! - Miss Madge Maitland 
8847 1 MAY BE CRAZY BUT A AIN’T NO FOOL— 
Comic Song .... Rob Roberta 
9385 CHICKEN CHOWDER . Edison Military Band 
8202 ARKANSAS TRAVELER - - - Len Spencer 
0146 EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER— 
Baritone Solo - - - Rob Roberts 
9034 NOBODY—Coon Song ... Arthur Collins 
9065 PEARL OF CALIFORNIA—Bell Solo, Albert Benzler 
8736 TWO RUBES AT THE VAUDEVILLE— 
Rube Sketch - - Harlan and Stanley 
2233 STEAMBOAT LEAVING THE WHARFt 
Edison Male Quartette 
9223 HEBREW SPECIALTY—Introducing Parody 
on “Then I’d Be Satisfied With Life” - Julian Rose 
9064 MY IRISH MOLLY O—Tenor Solo . Billy Murray 
1515 HOME SWEET HOME - - Irving Gillette 
There are over 1/500 different titles in 
the complete list of Edison Gold Moulded 
Records which we send you, and every one 
of them is produced by the finest talent ob¬ 
tainable. You can give just as good an en¬ 
tertainment as the great Metropolitan thea¬ 
tres can produce and right in your own 
home without a cent to pay. 
We want you to hear this and other programs 
on free trial of the Edison in your home. Try 
this Phonograph in every possible way. Invite 
your friends to hear a free Edison Concert, a 
free Minstrel Show, a Church Concert, etc., etc. 
See how absolutely lifelike is the Edison’s 
reproduction of the human voice, how perfectly 
you can hear every word in either a singing or a 
talking record. Put on a record of brass band 
selection. Notice the tremendous power and 
volume of sound that pours forth, and yet how 
perfectly you can hear every single instrument. 
Ask your friends’ opinion of the Edison. 
