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Thomas Edison inventing "talkies"??? Colonel Roosevelt...
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Thomas Edison inventing "talkies"??? Colonel Roosevelt...
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August 26, 1910
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, Massachusetts, August 26, 1910 The front page has "Colonel Roosevelt Reaches Center of The Insurgent Belt" "Crossing Iowa Today, Bound for Cheyenne, He Will Deliver Brief Speeches in Several Cities" "People Greet Him". This was part of this political tours that he was making. "At Dunkirk a crowd nearly as large surrounded the train, and some one shouted, 'Hello, Teddy!' "I used to think it lowered my dignity to have them call me Teddy, ' the colonel said to his party in an undertone, 'but do you know I am getting to like it now.'". Page 4 has a small article about "European Women Taking to Aviation Both as Sport and as New Profession". Page 5 has an article "Mr. Edison Works on a New Device" which reports "Moving pictures that talk, reproducing not only the action, but the spoken words of actors shown on the canvas, promise to revolutionize the moving picture business... is being constructed in the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison..." Other news, sports and advertisements of the day are within the issue.
Complete in 12 pages, slight rubbing on the front page, an archival mend as been made to each page at the center fold, slight irregular spine, otherwise is in very good condition.
Category: The 20th Century
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