Farm Aid Radio Innovates Agricultural Broadcasts
Radio's Parm and Home Hour, sponsored by Montgomery Ward, airs daily nationwide from NBC Chicago studios at noon. The program features farm leader insights and musical interludes and runs weekdays with a 14 minute NBC farm broadcast from Washington, ending at 1 30.
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Montgomery Ward and Company
Chicago
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Lena Blackburne Boss of White Sox Leads by Example
Seventeen years ago Charles Comiskey traded a dependable infielder to Milwaukee for a flashy young catcher nicknamed the Kid Wonder. Lena Blackburne, at forty, rose from semi pro beginnings to manage the Chicago White Sox, turning a late pennant race turnaround into a first division push and a series with the Yankees. His lean build gave him the nickname Lena, shortened from Lean, and his pep and fighting spirit inspired a club seeking a bold, boss-like leadership.
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Charles Comakey
Chicago White Sox
Milwaukee
Kid Wonder
Ray Schalk
Sus
Lena” Blackburne
Blackburne
Russell Autrey Blackburne
Sox
Lena
Yankees
Chicags
Cleveland
Indians
Shaute
Tena
Palmyra
Athletics
Automobile Hints and Historical Car Safety Notes
A fragmented transport piece notes automobile production leading U S manufacturing by wholesale value and references a centenarian stressing right of way. It mentions the old “Look Out for the Cars” sign gaining territory and briefly touches on using honey as radiator antifreeze mixed with water and boiled for safety in extreme cold.
Loughran’s ambitious title run through major heavyweights
Tommy Loughran pursued a bold path to boxing glory in late 1920s New York, winning and defending the heavyweight crown against Leo Lomski at Madison Square Garden on January 6, then defeating Jimmy Slattery on December 12 after beating McCarthy of Boston. He aimed to face Michael McTigue and others, asserting his plan to fight fifteen rounds with Lomski and solidifying his position as the era’s top heavyweight contender.
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Loughran
Leo Lomski
Madison Square Garden
Lomyski
Paclic
Louahran
Ing
Michael McTigue
New York Figue
Jack Delaney
Jimmy Slattery
National Boxing Association
Wreat McCarthy
Boston
Yenes
Aberdeen
Slattery
Lomski
Wlaver
Jess McMahon
Tex Eek
Homemade Spreader for Tire Inspection Describes Tool
Des Meoties of Lowell Butcher showcases a homemade tire inspection aid named the Spreader of Considerable Utility. The device uses two strapdraw cheeks bent to shape and attached to wooden arms. when arms are pulled together a wire loop locks them, widening the tire interior for inspection, as drawn and described in Popular Mechanics Megazine.
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Lowell
Women Weep at Wedding Broadcast in Pittsburgh Tale
Miss Marle K. Nem recalls an early radio moment at NBC Chicago studios where a phantasy wedding was broadcast. The couple’s vows played in a musical setting and many women wrote to say they cried as much as at a real wedding.
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Pittsburgh
Marle K. Nem
Chicago
NBC
KDKA
Gauge for Gravity Feed Gasoline Supply System
Popular Mechanics describes a gravity feed gasoline system for trucks and cars with a dashboard gas gauge, a clean-out pipe, and a T-fitting that connects a 100-pound water gauge. Torn cocks at the tank and carburetor allow purging, and the gauge marks gallon increments from empty to full. The method uses pump pressure to clear obstructions by opening and closing cocks.
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Mechanics Magazine
Short Sales of Fuel for Motors
Charles M. Hayes of the Chicago Motor Club warns that motorists spent 2.35 billion dollars on gasoline and oil in 1927 while only eight states enforce accurate sales measures. A AAA survey finds about 20 million dollars yearly lost to short sales of motor fuels, urging new weights and measures laws, stronger enforcement, and adequate funding nationwide.
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Charles M. Hayes
Chicago Motor Club
American Automobile Assoviation
Hayes
California
Indiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Jersey
New York
Ola
Minos
Commonwealths
Interesting Little Sport Items Reading From 1929 News
Overview of baseball notes including George Dumont career mention Pirates Cards 15 22, Karl Swanson steals 58 in Mississippi Valley, Yankees buy Chambersburg Blue Ridge league club, many major clubs changing managers for 1929, crowd records in Missouri Valley, Knute Rockne Notre Dame coaching record, Joe Ross trial with Giants, Lindy Hop craze, Canadian jockey N J Faden, Cletus Shocker Yankees link, weather quirk rain after washed windows, Georgia Tech North Carolina contract 1928 1930.
Fuchs Appointed Braves Manager Succeeding Hornsby
Judge Fuchs becomes Braves manager replacing Roger Hornsby who moves to the Chicago Cubs for 100000 dollars in cash and five players traded. Fuchs will stay as president of the Wigwam club and appears ready to lead.
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Judge Fuchs
Braves
Roger Hornsby
Chicago Cubs
Wigwam
New Senator Lee Golds Chosen to Represent Maryland
Former Senator Lee Golds of Maryland defeats Democratic opponent William Bruce to win a seat in the Seventy first Congress. Golds will represent the state in the Senate, succeeding Tom Alarylied. He is praised for wartime leadership and party unity as the new appointee takes office.
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Lee Goldsborough
Maryland
Ean
William ©. Bruce
Tom Alarylied
Senate
Seventy-first Congress
May Marry Lindy Rumor Ties Diplomatic Circles
A report says Miss Durabeth Morrow daughter of the ambassador to Mexico is rumored to be engaged to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. A separate Oxford census of birds lists Ken Singt on Gardens London totals 2,980 with sparrows, starlings, black headed seagulls, Mimlee and tiorhens among the species.
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Oxford
Kensington Gardens
London
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Mercedes Gleltz
Miss Gleltz
Automobile — Production Prance
United States
Tommy Loughran
George Dumont
Pirates
Karl Swanson
Rock Island
New York Yankees
Chambersburg Blue Ridge
Missour Valley
Knute Forkne
Notre Dame
Haines
Joe Ross
San Francisco
New York Giants
Johning Dundee
N. J. Faden
Windsre Teack
America
Cletus Shocker
Urban Shocker
Georgia Tech
North Carolina
Atlanti
Georgi Tech
Chapel Hil
Fuchs
Berlin
Beauties
Europe
Mareya
Spain
Jacqueline Cobra
Ginette Gaubert
Paris
Angel Joyce
England
Elsie Korin
Austria
Marguerite du France
France
Nita Smolski
Poland
Nathalie Barr
Russia
Rete Reiter
Germany
Joy Ashley
Lindy
Jean Janeis DeVillard
U. S. S. California
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