Missouri News Nuggets Condenses State Events
Clifford W. Gattenby pleads guilty to robbing a Pullman passenger en route from Kansas City to St. Louis and is sentenced to three years, while contempt fines are imposed on James B. Johnson and George Meisinger over a foreclosed real estate sale. Missouri moves to designate its 1500 miles of primary roads, and state licenses for cars and trucks rise in St. Louis.
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Clifford W. Gattenby
Kansas City
St.Louis
KE. ‘S. Cantt
Mexico
Jefferson City
Blum
Division No. 2
Supreme Court
James B. Johnson
George Meisinger
St. Louis
Johnson
Missouri
Jefferson ‘City
B. H. Piepewnier
Rollen J. Windrow
Theodore Gary
St. Louis County
Dorothy C. Call
Springfield
Fulton High
J. T.bush
Eldon
Quick
State Highway Department
Polk County
Consolidated Steel and Iron Corporation
Stuart
West
Fulton Special Road
Hawkins and Hoerner
Southwest Baptist College
Bolivar
Sarcoxie
Board of Education
Monmett
Fulton Special
Fulton
Earl Thurman
Anderson
Hamlin Memorial Church
Missouri Supreme Court
J. A. Collett
Salisbury
Collett
Truman P. Young
Central National Bank
Henry B. Graham
Clifton Taylor
Young
Graham
Sedalia
Charles Reign Scoville
Poepping
Band of
W. D. Smith
W. A. Kokendorfer
EB. F. Yancey
Sacred Services
J. C. Jones
Missouri University
Marshall
Saline County
Woodville Thurston
Marie Herbold
St. Louis Board of Education
Stoddard County
John Smith
Messier
Joseph Fisher
Charles E. Schaff
State Board of Law Examiners
A. P. Selsor
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Jasper
T. B. Hardaway
Vacuum Tube Theory in Radio Detectors and Electronics
The article explains vacuum tubes as detectors amplifiers and oscillators, describing electron emission, ion formation, and how a heated filament releases electrons. It covers atom structure, electrons, ions, and how plate voltage and filament temperature affect current in a vacuum tube detector setup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radiotron
Audion
Seriotron
New Presidio Station Promises Pacific Coast Radio Power
Frisco reports a new radio transmitter at the Presidio San Francisco boasting the most powerful vacuum tube transmitter on the Pacific coast. Two 150 foot aerial towers atop the highest Presidio point will boost reach toward Salt Lake City Cheyenne and Honolulu with signals heard halfway around the world.
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Honolulu
Presidio
San Francisco
Globe
Pacific Coast
San Francisco Bay
Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
Wireless radiophones tested on German trains and in hotels
Experiments with wireless telephone instruments on express trains show reliable communication with Berlin. Tests conducted in a moving freight car occurred under the watch of engineers military attaches and diplomatic representatives from the United States and Sweden.
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Berlin
United States
Sweden
Handling Vacuum Tubes For Receiver Care
Handling vacuum tubes requires great care to avoid knocking or breaking the delicate elements. They are the heart of the set and should be kept just below the critical glow point during operation.
Amateur Radio Tips From Early Broadcast Advice
Advice covers tube voltages, detector and amplifier tubes, and potentiometer use for the detector. It notes one wire reception reduces static and that single wires work as well as multiple, with B batteries causing roar and grounding via gas or water pipes advised for grounds.
Weather Prophet Wins Love In Springtime Parable
In Wesley, Julia Collins clings to Hiram Lake the weather prophet she loves despite townsfolk's ridicule. A picnic rainstorm proves his forecast true as a dramatic downpour tests faith. After Jacob Hanaford’s social pushback, Hiram quits the weather bureau and proposes marriage, promising a brighter forecast.
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Mount Ararat
Hiram Lake
Julia Collins
Julia
Wesley
Jacob Hanaford
Jacob
Willin
Hiram
Jacob Bee
Anbrella
Mother Church
Sheel
Creston
T Weather Bureau
Crest
Spea
Weather Bureau
Sunday Leisure and Customs in Costa Rica Describe Moonshine and Dueling
A National Geographic passage notes Costa Rican village life on Sundays. Men lounge near the store or post office while women and children visit. a mass may occur and a man may drink moonshine, sometimes leading to a machete duel and jail. Bullfighting is rare. cockfighting and lotteries circulate.
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Costa Rica
Gener
Republic
Paul B. Popenoe
Nationalographic Magazine
Thespis and the Bacchic Verse Tradition
The ancient Greek Thespis, credited as the inventor of tragedy, combined drinking songs praising Bacchus with epic verses. An audience member once mocked him asking what his verses had to do with Bacchus, a remark that helped popularize the phrase.
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Jack Strenful
Poplar Bluff
Strenfel
Thespis
Bacchus
From Uniforms to Cab Linings
The article notes that wartime cloth for American soldiers’ uniforms was surplus after the war ended sooner than expected. A French concern bought vast quantities to line taxicabs in Paris, repurposing materials intended for uniforms.
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Paris
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Woodmen of America
Se‘dalia
Sweet Springs
Blackwater Creek
Marshall of
Missouri Valley College
Roy Nolte
Estus Crutcher
EB. L. Parsons
Carl Dancan
R. E. Culver
St. Joseph
Edward F. Regenhardt
Cape Girardeau
Luther Hassell
Black River
Hassell
Frank Crain
Crossfield
William Woods College
Nancy Trompen
Chicago
Normal University
Normal
Ill
Helen McDonald
Ind
Thomas H. Piendly
Rock Island Railroad
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Piendly
Chary
Ure Il
Frisco
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