Travelogue from Luxor to Khartum Along the Nile
A traveler’s vivid account from central Egypt to Khartum narrates a white train ride with blue windows and desert heat. Descriptions cover Shellal to Halfa by boat, Kitchener’s era, Ramadan rites, ruins and temples, a sirocco sandstorm, and a stay in Khartum at Gordon’s hotel with dervish dances and Nile breezes.
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National Geographic Society
Washington
Egypt
Khartum
Nile
Luxor
Shellaland
Halfa
Kitchener
Mohammed Ahmed
Omdurman
Shellal
Haifa
Sahara
Desert
Mecca
Puilne
Tals
Aswan
Antony
Cleopara
Cleopatra
Weht
Sudan
Maraqged
Kharterm
Gindurman
Cairo
Tha Nile
Gorgon
Gordon Hotel
Beam Wireless Is Scientists' Goal
Dr J H Dellinger, chief of the Radio Laboratory at the Bureau of Standards, discusses directional radio beams as a long term goal. He notes progress since Marconi and British beam stations, explains receiving patterns, skip-distance of short waves, and navigational uses in foggy seas.
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Redio Laboratory
Bureau of Standards
Marconi
Great Britain
England
Canada
British Empire
Radio growth in Sweden surpasses 200000 receivers
More than 200000 radio receiving sets are in use in Sweden as rapid development of Internet coverage extends across the country.
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Sweden
Simple Bus Bar Method Prevents Battery Corrosion
A practical fix for corroded storage battery terminals uses six inch bus bar pieces soldered to each terminal. Clips on the lead wires attach to the bar ends, keeping contacts away from the battery and insulating fumes. The method eliminates corrosion and protects insulation without grease.
Grid Leak Values for Best Receiver Performance
The article discusses grid leak resistors in vacuum tube detectors. It stresses constant optimal leak values for efficiency and minimal noise, notes metalized registers as grid leaks, and provides a table of recommended values for different tubes and DX conditions. It also explains plate voltage affects the grid leak and advises carrying several resistor values for experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Resistance Company
Tasmania to Schenectady radio record signals cross oceans
A General Electric station in Schenectady broadcast a five minute program to Hobart Tasmania. Australian Industrial Commission members delivered brief addresses via 2XA F on 82.79 meters. William Jackson of 2AHM heard a test from Hobart noting the entire QXAP program received, loud and clear, microphone margin evident.
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Schenectady
Australia
General Electric Company
Australian Industrial Commission
General Electric
William Jackson
Wi ‘F
TDX
Hobart
Tasmania
Rejuvenating Plan Seen Mixed In Radio Use
Rejuvenating tubes remains partly impracticable says experts while noting some radio fans report success. Outcome hinges on the rejuvenating equipment and operator skill. Overloading without gradual buildup is common, and in some cases too little power after a brief moderate overload undermines results.
Woman's Club Shower Prank Ends With Cake Joke
A prominent business woman's section member of the Woman's Department club was invited to a bridal shower. On leaving home with a wrapped gift, a neighbor, a young former soldier, teased her by asking what she carried. He quipped about baking a cake, prompting lighthearted banter from the scene reported by the Indianapolis News.
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Woman's Department Club
Indianapolis News
Electric plows tested in Italy with battery storage devices
Trials of electric plows in Italy show machines operating on flat fields without stumps. High equipment and operating costs limit use to large, obstacle free fields. Inventors develop storage battery devices to power the plows.
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Italy
Bell-Ans Halts Indigestion Gas and Nausea
Bell-Ans Halts OQuer Addit, how disagree abe, how exasperat ing, how embarrassing to be a sufferer from gas belching heartburn sick headache nausea and other digestive disorders. BISLL-ANS for Indigestion is a harmness pleasant Sure Reilet. Tested by over 30 years' use. 26c, or send for free samples to Belt & Co. Inc. Orangeburg NY Ady.
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Belt & Co.,~Inc
Orangeburg
Vacuum Erasers to Replace Dull School Life
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt laments replacing chalk with vacuum erasers and new rores schools, arguing it will dull childhood by removing simple joys like fetching water and using pencils, portraying future classrooms as mechanized and joyless.
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New Rores
Gulf
Louisville Courier-Journal
Scotemen Seek Passage as Seatsmen Register for Emigration
Cappers' Weekly reports that numerous Scottish applicants at the American consulate in Glasgow intend to emigrate, predicting the largest yearly influx of settlers to the United States in American history if they all proceed.
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Glasgow
Forgotten Mention It Ouija of Duke Marrige?
A fragment from the Der Mother Register notes a quip about a poor man appealing to a rich man for help with a marriage to a duke. The exchange hints at ignored or omitted matters in social circles and suggests a casual, satirical tone about class and marriage.
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Group of Nalives
Beam Wireless
J. H. Dellinger
Reynolds ‘naton-Sales
Montague
Brund
Fletcher
Sarage
Rapiriy
Baye
Bayer
Ufacture
Allen
Stockinus
Indianapolia Cancer Hospital
Indianapolis
B. W. O'Con
Portland
Athineapolie
Minn
Hestern South
Dakota
Bux
Alvar Late
Sv. Dak
W.N. Y
Sioux City
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