Crowded Ether Challenges Radio Conference This Year
Radio conference faces listener fatigue as overfilled airwaves risk waning interest across the country. Broadcasters hope to address crowding and retain audience engagement amid a saturated medium.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1925
Page
10
Radio conference faces listener fatigue as overfilled airwaves risk waning interest across the country. Broadcasters hope to address crowding and retain audience engagement amid a saturated medium.
Funeral arrangements were being made for Grinite Elevens a 49 year old freight conductor for the New York Central who was fatally crushed between two freight cars in the American Rolling Mills yards here late Monday.
Logan residents weigh forming a chamber of commerce to support broader city projects and attract new industries. A Kiwanis club meeting launched the move with Rotary and Kiwanis to collaborate, seeking wider business and professional support beyond existing clubs.
Logan report states Kalamazoo authorities positively identified clothing sent for linkage to the Rockbridge detour mystery as belonging to William Springer of Kalamazoo. Springer has not been seen since July, and relatives and friends still seek his whereabouts.
The week old son of Mr and Mrs Ellis Good died Sunday evening at their home in Monday Creek township Perry county. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3 and burial followed in the Mennonite cemetery at Turkey Run by Leonard Bros.
Logan September 15 Ward Chase a bookkeeper at the Hocking Valley shops is convalescing after a week long bout with a sore throat. Doctors lanced his throat to relieve a dangerous condition and his condition is reported improving.
Mrs Washburn of Union Furnace was moved from Dr Lyons’s office to the local hospital Sunday night after collapsing during treatment for a nasal abscess.
Glouster News reports Jacksonville high school student body members chosen: Lewis Watkins as president Ruth Stewart as vice president Ethel Anderson as secretary treasurer Nellie Exenkemper as pianist An athletic and social council will be named soon. Elbert Maxwell hospitalized for appendicitis after transport to Grant hospital in Columbus. The Degree of Pocahontas invites the public to a bum party in Jacksonville on September 17 1925 with prizes for best looking bums.
In the September 15 Messenger account of the automobile crash that killed Peter McLaughlin of Nelsonville, an error appeared about Ed McZlohe’s household. It should read that his children and widowed sister lived with him, not his wife and widowed sister.
John Stonager of Hunterdon is en route to Columbus where his daughter Mrs Steve Gyure will undergo an operation at Grant hospital today. Mrs Gyure and Mr Gyure left for Columbus last Saturday and a message was received last night stating she would have the operation today.
Mrs. John Smith and her son John Jr. visit Orient, Illinois relatives. Mrs. G. W. West from Columbus visits her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gordon. Mildred Dorothy and Luella Vaughn and Wayne Faires travel to Ashland Kentucky for a day with friends. Dr. H. G. Gibson spends the day in Columbus.
Nelsonville undertaker Stout collected the body of Peter McLaughlin killed in an early Monday car accident and moved it to his Nelsonville home. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Church of Christ with burial at Green Lawn.
McKinley of Athens reports his son recovering from severe blood poisoning caused by a blister on his right foot. The injury occurred at a YMCA camp about a mile from Cincinnati while the youth was away from home. He will stay at home with his parents until recovery.
Tex the 7600 pound elephant, famed for bad disposition, was captured near Augusta Arkansas after a spree that wrecked a field of popcorn a bridge and an automobile in Topeka and Tupelo. Cairo expert J J Kelly will decide next steps after luring the animal from a drainage ditch. The animal is said to be 111 years old.
Pleasanton mourning with funeral set for Mrs. George Martin at Pleasanton Church on Wednesday at 2 PM followed by burial in churchyard.
The Mount Vernon fire destroyed the tele phone exchange building and damaged lines. The PF Pennsylvania railroad bridge over the river caught fire as a 10,000 gallon gasoline tank exploded. About twenty people were burned slightly including officials and spectators, with over 100,000 gallons of gasoline and oil destroyed.
Mish White, a Black man from Coonville, is alleged by his mother-in-law Mrs. Sarah Holmes to have made menacing threats at their home after returning drunk. The affidavit led Traffic Officer Farbearn to obtain a warrant and arrest was pursued Monday afternoon in Logan.
A Logan report lists marriage licenses issued to Herbert M. Dalton 26 brick worker and Edna Opal Cozad 18 at home. James G. Bitler 33 fireman and Clara J. Judy 30 clerk. Frank R. Queen 21 laborer and Susie May Dupler 16 at home. David Jackson Dupler 21 miner and Wilda Berdella Carroll 17 at home in Carbon Hill with Monday records.
Logan residents plan winter departures to Florida as several couples and individuals prepare to spend the season in Miami and other warm spots. Families including the Weltners Whartons Cherringtons and Scott Mohler join Lanning and others who left Logan earlier. Many Hocking county residents invest in Florida real estate.
Harry Hughes of Carbon Hill, a Buckeye Pipe Line ganger, was brought to Cherrington Hospital after his horse fell while he rode to a well near Glendale. His right foot was crushed, and doctors expect weeks of recovery.
Athens and twelve southern Ohio counties will be represented at the third annual Ohio Christian Endeavor Union convention in Hillsboro October 16 and 17. Hugh Diamond will speak at the banquet October 17. Orris W. Haulman of Akron will oversee the quiet hours.
Washington reports the Fourth National Radio Exposition centers on whether government limits should cap U S broadcasting stations. About 570 broadcasters favor some control while 200 groups seek channel access, debating “freedom of the ether” as regulatory rules begin to take shape.
Heavy rains began last night and continued this morning throwing into doubt the boxing program at the Olympic arena tonight. Three ten round bouts and two four round curtain raises were slated led by Tommy Freeman of Arkansas meeting Harry Shaw of New York. Benny Gershe, a local knockout artist, meets Benny Gould while Johnny Datto of the Philippines faces Jacky Nichols of Detroit to fill the ten round card.
In Columbus on September 15 the welfare department, after securing approval from the state control board, pursues a project involving Bay State prison land.
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