MARRIED BY PHONOGRAPH
An extraordinary phonograph story coroea from America, It is said that a Protestant clergyman was very anxious to perform fcha marriage oaremony of his daughter, but shortly before the day fixed for the wedding he became dangerously ill, and his recovery vras pronounced hopeless. iJnder these circumstances the dying man ordered a phonograph to be brought to his bedside and apoke "into the instrument His part "of the marriage service. Tho-_ phonograph was placed bn the communion table of the church -in which the * daughter was naarriecl, ami thia voice* fj-om the grave, aa it were, united the young people.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 3
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103MARRIED BY PHONOGRAPH Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 3
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