107 Year-Old Comedy Record About Ground Hog Day (No Joke).

"Laughing Story Ground Hog Day At Pumpkin Center" By Cal Stewart Recorded November 1905.
Standard Talking Machine Company # 3334
This record is manufactured under certain patents and is sold subject to conditions and restricted as to the persons to and the price at which it may be resold by any person into whose hands it comes. Copies or duplicates must not be made from it.
THE PRICE OF THIS RECORD throughout the United States is SIXTY CENTS. No sale is authorized and no license is granted to use this record when sold below that price.
Any violation of any of such conditions or restrictions make the seller or user liable as an infringer of said patents.
STANDARD TALKING MACHINE Co. CHICAGO (1905)

Standard Talking Machine recordings were Columbia Records recordings that were licensed to the Standard Talking Machine Company.

Cal Stewart (b. 1856 Charlotte County, Virginia, d. December 7, 1919) was a pioneer in vaudeville and early sound recordings. He is best remembered for his comic monologues in which he played "Uncle Josh" Weathersby, a resident of a mythical New England farming town called "Punkin Center."
http://www.mainspringpress.com/stewart.html

http://www.gregssandbox.com/edison/uncle_josh/bio.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Stewart

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[RaymondTVinyl]

So Interesting! Thanks for sharing. Sounds amazingly good on the Magnavox!

[manhatin]

@RaymondTVinyl To hear someone talking from over a hundred years ago is very special.

[Starlababy]

He sounds like an old man.

[DaAnalogDogg86]

Interesting!