There were several talking machines labelled Clarion. The first was an external horn gramophone made about 1907 by Hawthorne Manufacturing Company, Toronto. The name Clarion was also used for an internal horn cabinet machine made about 1917 and for an orthophonic-style cabinet machine advertised 10 years later in 1927.
'Clarion Talking Machine' made by Hawthorne Manufacturing Company, Toronto, from the Domenic DiBernardo Collection. Photographed--with permission--by Cheryl Wright (rights reserved):
Likely some patent-dodging device (also note two controls in the pictures above, one is start-stop, the other is what?):
Toronto Daily Star, August 29, 1907, p. 9. R.S. Williams and Sons Co. Ltd. exhibits the Clarion Talking Machine at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.
A short Clarion upright machine sold at a CAPS auction in Toronto.
Toronto Daily Star. Two ads by the Cecilian Company Limited, Toronto, including a Clarion horn machine for $8.00, likely a table-top model, June 22, 1917, p. 9 and September 1, 1917, p. 7.
Toronto Daily Star, April 7, 1927, p. 31. R.S. Williams ad for an orthophonic-style Clarion phonograph.
Toronto Daily Star, October 6, 1927, p. 31.
Toronto Daily Star, December 15, 1927, p. 8.
Toronto Daily Star, April 20, 1928, p. 41.
