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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1922
Page
7
Tufts College faculty radiophone committee announces a home economics and domestic science course for women. The first lecture will be broadcast from Amrad station next Tuesday evening, offering real college level instruction via radio.
Tufts College will broaden lectures for women in home economics as part of regular courses. If successful, the program will become permanent. Dr. Harvey A. Wooster, Jackson professor of political science and head of economics, will deliver the first six lectures.
The article explains static interference in early radio reception. A receiving current of one microamp causes loud crackling from atmospheric electricity. To combat static, a high pitched whistle around 500 cycles is used, which the operator hears as dots and dashes. The quench gap helps quench the spark and stops energy transfer to the secondary circuit.
Tufts College will begin a new radiophone course for women featuring economics and domestic science topics. Lectures run about 15 minutes with sessions in afternoon and evening to maximize attendance, aiming to reach over 500000 listeners through Amrad station broadcasts.
The Pop concert program at Symphony Hall tonight includes Rakoczy March and Berlioz Overture to Poet and Peasant. It also features Wagnerian pieces from Puccini and Liszt selections, plus Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker and Rienzi Overture.
New York June 2 creditors of the Columbia Graphophone Company agree to postponement of both principal and interest for three years. The company remains solvent, with H L Willison claiming the firm is not in receivership and will push forward new production policies and dealer relations.
White Plains reports the Petersburg case widens as James Cunningham, a race track habitué, is arrested as a material witness. He alleges Joe Jackson was shot at Peters and carried to Stamford Connecticut for treatment. District Attorney Weeks says a definite lead may come soon.
Governor Cox asked the legislature for a 1500 appropriation to preserve a Tudor chim ney in the Provinces House district now being razed. Hundreds visited the narrow alley to view the relic of Tudor architecture, praised as one of the country’s best from an architectural standpoint, with preservation hoped if the request is granted.
Dorchester marks 292 years since its founding with Dorchester Day events. An automobile parade opened the observance, followed by a field day by the American Legion Hammond Post and Dorchester VFW. Dorchester High School hosts 8 oclock historical exercises with Mayor Curley and Rev. Adelbert L. Hudson speaking.
Max Litchenstein of Homestead Street Roxbury was acquitted of assault on Mrs Annie Donahue of 31 Anderson Street West End. The May 1 incident was not proven. Judge Murray dismissed the case after noting insufficient evidence.
Sir The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asks for summer contributions to water horses on city streets. It notes 2 129 321 horses watered over the past decade and appeals to readers to ease the burden of care for working horses by supporting the effort. Francis H Rowley, president, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston.
Louis Newton, former janitor at Norman Hall 217 Harvard Street, remains in five rooms with his wife and two children despite writs of eviction and appeals to move out. He stayed after April 14 when the renting agent told him his services ended. His successor, Joseph Staples, enjoys the luxury suite while Newton seeks a new home at a reasonable rental.
William H. Burns, president of the Massachusetts Association of Disabled Veterans of the World War, sent a letter to President Harding yesterday complaining about the treatment of disabled veterans in Massachusetts hospitals and requesting an investigation and remedy.
Frank Hefferman of Lowell was sentenced to 21 2 to 12 years at hard labor on his 20th birthday in the Superior Court. He had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering in Salem in 1918 and later faced charges of attempted breaking and entering in Cambridge, for which he served a year at the Concord Reformatory. Hefferman was brought from Concord for this sentence.
Following Judge Anderson's refusal to appoint a receiver for the Harley Company of Springfield castings maker, the corporation was petitioned into bankruptcy in the U S District Court yesterday afternoon.
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