Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-03-08

:, tbaf dav Thomas A. Edison has
-1riad more than any living man to
,ironCpmpat of the human race. Mil
mon millions of dollars are employed
,T5-nTispg made possible by his genius
i,irrStry and hundreds of thousands
s,T are employed by those enterprises
N no might fever have known had 1T
Non for this wizard of the twentieth
5 Edison and his works are powers in
ahvpopment of the world which even
/ # the present century fail to give
mOppr force. for the reason that they
ID amazingly wonderful our minds can
mgp their Importance.
HIS WORKS ALL ABOUT US.
a ,b0pt us we behold the works of this
n man. There is the improved tela
d. The modern telegraph, the storage
MI. and last but not least the phono-
! 81 which be invented and gave to the
| h and which he controls still because
sbFs it best Of all his inventions. This
nl laughing, talking, singing machine,
NJ almost breathcS, walks and thinks,
t0ats Us everywhere. The home of to-
/ that does not possess an Edison phono-
LIB is either the home in which this
EruIity has been neglected or the home
TTmey poor hat it cannot afford to
N even one slice of bread from the table
hIp pay for a bit of pleasure and en-
Eminent | mention this as there is a
Ft3 tree trial offer Or all honest peo-
Mo would like to Try the Edison in
vi homes, Read what the editor says
lte back page.
III few years the Edison photograph
M 6n
ElI because Mr.. EdiSOn's firm stand that
profits on this instrument should be
ITO the very minimum has made it pos
3e for almost everybody to enjoy the
ME Of his phouograph. Strange as it
y SEEM Mr., Ellison has cast most of his
li nTentiOuS aSide-sold them outright
@aNnIeS which are now manufacturing
10 but he retains control of nearly all
SOCK IN his talking machine, because
l9i%S nun more than any other inyen-
1h ever made.
ENJOYS HIS OWN PuONOGRAPH.
TIN now when he listens to one of his
lslaplS he laughs as heartily as does
lal VINO hears one for the first time.
u one Of the buyiSh peculiarities of
aeat man. 1t wasn't long ago that
cdae the declaration that he wanted to
d monograph in every American home.
Naigatway he set about helping to
one in every home by knocking the
9 I gown to the very lowest figure.
,a {, his monograph was not by any
~ III Ills .trst great invention | have men
su IL IrSt because of the great attach
|. NE inventor always showed for this
Ia s1s In speaking of it to me one
vllIe we were sitting with the gray
S q u BIS laboratory enveloping us, he
,,,, love that instrument as much as
'j u To-. lGye a child of my own. When
, ~ TAXED 1t gave me as much joy as
& .. OF Il baby. | have watched it
:. !Tat AFTER year with as much inter
~ I,,i ! would watch the development of
b %SIa 4, OF a son or a daughter"
5,a,, mere Is the kinetoscope. What a
! ha invention that was To us who
a me Iheory Of its workings it doesn't
n %G impossible invention, but suppose
T'a aad been given to us in a dim
I r, upICre the instrument became q
] D s. men: Could any brain but that
MI 't "a EdlSons have grasped it? This
/: rs another fayorite of the wizards,
fo a"S disposed of it as he has dis
sti, Ua the most part of those sterling
a ar' s5S,. such as the electric railroad,
fSiSrbu plPN telegraph. the electric light,
'PAoue tranSmitter, the megaphone,