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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1923
Page
4
The article explains how nearby stations create continuous whistles as carriers mix with receiver oscillations. It notes receivers with regenerative detectors can emit waves, causing neighbor interference, and advises keeping detectors non oscillating to reduce noise. It discusses single versus three circuit receivers and why inductively coupled designs may increase interference.
The article discusses reducing antenna size and increasing inductance turns to sharpen tuning and ease regeneration. It notes spark station interference near coastal cities and Great Lakes shipping hubs, which is hard to eliminate. When nearby, changing wavelength helps little and commercial stations cannot be expected to yield.
The first radio telephone exchange opens at Croydon connecting airliners to Europe with the London control tower in Charing Cross. It allows on flight calls between airships and Croydon aerodrome offices and requires pilots to report position every 15 minutes for progress tracking and fog guidance.
A radio receiving set installed at the London Ohio state prison farm allows trusties and officials to stay in touch with the outside world. Funded by the institution's entertainment funds, the set will be expanded with a transmitting unit within months to aid rapid recapture of escaped convicts and broadcast escape news as it happens.
Justice Tompkins of the Supreme Court of Rockland County New Jersey used a radio from his steamer to telegraph a required notice to his Nyack secretary to adjourn the court that was to convene on the morning of his arrival. It marked the first time the court used radio to arrange adjournment due to limited time after docking.
The bureau of standards disclosed that 20 643 copies of bulletin No 120 detailing a simple receiving set were distributed from the Washington office. They are sold at cost and may be obtained by sending 5 cents to the Superintendent of Documents in Washington.
The hot wire ammeter gauges current in the transmitter antenna system. It indicates apparatus performance and is used in tuning to resonance to induce maximum current in the antenna circuit.
Special radio time signals sent from NSS Annapolis for scientists in the Indian Ocean testing relativity were nearly twice as audible as those from a commercial station, the navy reports.
A Nebraska broadcasting station operated by the American Legion airs lectures on American traditions and institutions to help foreign born residents within range make rapid progress toward Americanization.
Japanese Radio Enterprise reports powerful financial interests led by Viscount Shibusawa strive to gain government support for a 200 million yan radio corporation. In U S dollars this would be about 100 million.
The excerpt quotes David Masson musing on prose and imagination. It ponders whether prose must be stern and iron or can explore whimsy, forest nymphs, elves, stars, seas, and beauty, contrasting grand or ghastly tones with tenderness.
An authority on bird flight reports fying fish wings are four to five times more efficient for soaring. Fin rays form ridges on the wing underside creating a sheltered zone behind each ray that drives the wing forward during glide.
A fourth grade pupil Joe writes a playful future plan to be a policeman or soldier or cowboy. He imagines arresting everyone as a policeman and fighting the world as a soldier, and lassoing people as a cowboy before becoming an engineer.
The passage links ancient empires including Byzantine and Egyptian to shifts in culinary customs. It suggests that changing eating practices marked the start of decline, blaming bakers for shaping national dining trends and responsibilities at the American table.
Notice is given that Bristol dogs must be licensed annually by June with collars bearing owner name and registered number. Fees: $1.15 for male, $5.15 for female. May licenses cost $2.15 for a male, $6.15 for a female. Licenses available from April 2, 1923 at the Town Clerk's Office, Bristol.
March 27 1923 court in Bristol requests by Adelaide M Cata to appoint Mabel L Gardner as administratrix of the estate of Eliza H Fitch intestate. The matter is set for April 16 1923 at 10 30 AM in the Probate Court Room Bristol and notice is ordered published for fourteen days in the Bristol Phoenix.
Administration notice for the estate of Sarah E Sherman of Bristol states the probate admission by the Bristol Probate Court and executor Howard E Sherman’s bond filing. Creditors must file claims within six months from the first advertisement date. Clerk John W Church signs the notice.
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