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Voices can now be 'bottled' with the new phonograph... Hanging of the Mollie Maguires...
Voices can now be 'bottled' with the new phonograph... Hanging of the Mollie Maguires...
Item # 694613
March 26, 1878
THE DAILY MEMPHIS AVALANCHE, Tennessee, March 26, 1878
* Phonograph invention described
* Hanging the Molly Maguires
Page two has: "The Phonograph" which is a brief article noting in part: "The witty man of the New York Times has explained...the remarkable advantages we shall all reap from the phonograph--an instrument by which, it is claimed, the tones of the human voice can be preserved and reproduced, hundreds of years hence...all our great men, at least their voices and words will undergo a process of 'bottling'..." with more.
The front page has: "The Hanging of the Mollie Maguires" which provides some detail on the hanging of three men involved in activism in the coal mines of Pennsylvania.
Four pages, large folio size, rejoined at the spine, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: Post-Civil War
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