Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 36
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 25, 1907
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HEARS MASTER'S VOICE NO MORE.
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Famous Dog Dies in Waco--Master
Mourns his Loss.
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       The public in general and in particular are more or less familiar with the illustration used by a well known talking machine company in advertising their phonographs, said illustration showing a dog intently gazing in to the funnel shaped mouth of the instrument, in connection with which is the inscription, "He Hears His Master's Voice."
       Well, the dog is dead, and he will not hear this master's voice any more.
       The master of the dog was in this city Monday and his name is S. S. Simpson, one of the cast in "A Daughter of Judea."
       Mr. Simpson, to a reporter for The Democrat, gave the story of the dog which he prized beyond price and whose loss he mourns as he would the loss of his best friend.  Mr. Simpson owned the dog, a fox terrier, for twelve years.
       Eight year ago Simpson was  in Jackson, Miss. and dropped into a music store in which the Victor phonographs were sold.  The dog heard a piece that was being played, and jumped up on the counter and listened.  He looked so knowingly that the agent for the phohograph company caught an idea and said:  "He hears his master's voice."  Permission was given by the owner for the dog's picture to be taken in the position in which he is seen.  The dog travelled with Mr. Simpson to London, Vienna, Australia, West Indies Islands and was in San Francisco on April 18 during the earthquake.  Mr. Simpson tells of how the dog aroused the occupants of the hotel in which the company were stopping by barking at a time before the worst shocks were felt.
       Died in Waco Sunday, Sept. 22, on account of old age and was buried with becoming ceremony.

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