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Sep 30, 1887
Thomas Edison forms the Edison Phonograph Company to market his new machine that records on wax cylinders. The first models retail for $85, $100 and $130. Edison envisions the phonograph as a business dictation machine--not for entertainment
Aug 22, 1906
Victrola patents the phonograph. The hand-carved machine retails for $200
Sep 2, 1924
A day after auditioning for Columbia Records in New York, Ernest Stoneman has a similar meeting with Ralph Peer at Okeh Records. He agrees to a deal with Okeh, bringing him $110, including expenses, for recording two songs
Apr 25, 1929
The Kerrville Mountain Sun in Texas proclaims that Jimmie Rodgers is set to build a home in the city. The house is expected to cost $20,000
Jan 26, 1931
Comedian Will Rogers and Jimmie Rodgers begin a tour together in San Antonio at the Memorial Auditorium. The tour covers 50 cities in 18 days, earning more than $225,000 for the American Red Cross
Feb 3, 1931
Stella Harkins files suit against Jimmie Rodgers in Comanche County, Oklahoma, seeking a total of $20,000 for his daughter, Kathryn. He had not known of the girl's existence until the previous May, when his ex-wife brought her to a show
Mar 18, 1933
Facing hard times, Jimmie Rodgers sells his Kerrville, Texas, home--nicknamed Blue Yodeler's Paradise--for $9,100, less than half of its original price
Oct 2, 1933
A pair of former western swing bandmates compete in a concert billed as a "battle dance": Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys versus Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies. Admission to the show, at the Green Terrace in Lake Waco, Texas, is $1
Oct 7, 1933
Burrus Mill files a $10,000 suit against Bob Wills, calling for Wills to stop advertising his band members as former members of The Light Crust Doughboys. The court later decides there's nothing damaging in advertising the truth
Aug 29, 1935
Bob Wills sends a letter to piano player Al Stricklin, of The Hi Flyers, offering him $30 weekly to become a member of The Texas Playboys. Stricklin is in the studio with Wills the following month
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