Other Opportunties to Own a Phonograph Phonographs cost too much? "We have solved the problem."     The Phonograph - "the greatest invention of the age..." "We have solved the problem." The Echophone "will be shipped to you (express charges to be paid by the purchaser) and "Leslie's Weekly" every week for one year, for the remarkably low price of $8.00 - The Phonoscope, January 1897   Sell 35 lbs of Baker's Teas, Spices and Baking Power and "secure a Gramophone." Munsey's Magazine, 1897 (also see September, 1897 McClure's Magazine).   Send $14.75 for "Family Combination Grocery Order" and get free Graphophone. The Cosmopolitan Magazine 1899   Sell 36 of our new Jewelry Novelties and we will send you this Columbian Graphophone. The Saturday Evening Post April 4, 1903     Get a Columbia Disc Graphophone "practically free" if you subscribe to Omaha Bee for one year and pay $1.25 to receive the $12.50 disc graphophone fully equipped with one 50-cent disc record and 100 needles. Purchase of additional ten records is optional but if you don't then after one year the graphophone is no longer your property. Omaha Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1905   "Columbia Graphophones on Credit" - Spiegel, May, Stern Co. 1907   Circa 1908   "Edison Free Trial" - Collier's, February 1909   Four Grafonolas Given as Prizes at Pittsburg Movie Theatres The Talking Machine World, February 15, 1923     Win a free Admiral Phonograph in Bisquick's Contest to "Just finish this sentence" -- Newspaper ad 11" x 15" 1947   Record Clubs and Record Promotions   The Victor Library of Recorded Music - 461 records - A gift to your family that embraces the entire world of music, 1935     Receive a RCA Victor Record Player and Membership in the Victor Record Society, 1938   New $14.95 instrument yours -- without cost when you join Victor Record Society, 1938   Mercury Record Corporation - Clip Coupons and "Take to your Mercury Record Dealer today." Life magazine, June 15, 1959   Mickey Mantle's "Hit a Homer" game, 1963 Mickey Mantle's invitation to play "Hit a Homer" was presented as an opportunity for kids to win prizes by selling greeting cards, one of the prizes being a 4-speed record player. The number of greeting boxes kids sold "to folks you know" determined the number of bases you could run. Hit a Homer by selling only 60 boxes and win a "Speedy English Bike or Kodak Automatic Movie Camera. Sell only 36 boxes and it was hitting a triple -- which meant you'd win a 4-Speed Record Player.   Mickey Mantle's promotion for the National Youth Sales Club to "Hit a Homer." 1963   Capitol Record Club, Magazine Advertisement 1965   Back cover of Heart Throbs Comic #101 May 1966   Capitol Record Club offer in 1969 of $19.96 plus shipping for "Deluxe Model Stereo Phonograph" by agreeing to buy 12 more records during the next twelve months.             Phonographia