Missouri News Nuggets Highlights From State Events
State Constitutional Convention ends primary nominating process and sets delegate system. Obituary and civic notes cover James Evans release on bond, J H Dillard bee sting recovery, and local education staff appointments at Kirksville. Missouri oil heaters adoption, egg and cream marketing drive, and county level developments in Sedalia and Trenton reported. Local crime, church dedications, parade plans, and state nurse convention set for fall in Columbia.
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State Constitutional Convention
Committee On Privileges and Elections
State Senate
House of Representatives
Index
Kirksville State Teachers College
Kirksville
Wyla Snyder
Mary Stroup
Mary Christy
Edythe Miller
Louise Gillum
Pauline Taylor
Dorothy Hodgdon
Eva Wilson
Elda McClain
Mary Gowerman
P. O. Selby
T. J. Green
Supreme Court En Bance
James W. Evans
Kansas City
Supreme Court
Evans
George Othick
Jackson County
State Farmers’ Mutual Tornado Insurance Company
Cameron
Maryville
Arthur T. Nelson
Missouri
Ozark
Lafayette County
Jonathans
James Addison Brown
Mexico
Adrian
W. A. Quayle
Chicago
William Wirt King
St. Louis
Culver-Stockton College
Canton
Culver-Stockton
Louis Franklin Thomas
Cape Girardeau
Thomas
Trenton
Haliburton Alley
Missouri Pacific
California
Jefferson City
United States
James A. Reed
Hyde
J. Mathews
Ku Klux Klan
Sedalia
Pettis County
Eva C. Chang
Missouri University
Columbia
Oberlin College
Marion, C
Marshall
West Plains
First National
Howell County Bank
Grand River
Callahan & Walker Construction Company
W. S. Daniels
Alpha
GC. B. Balthis
Marshall Community
Barthis
Liberty Street
R. 8. McKinney
Richard C. Beard
University of Minnesota
Missouri State Nurses’ Association
Chillicothe
Perry Smith
Smith Planning Mill
G. B. Schultz
Great Discovery of Edwin H. Armstrong
A historical note explains Edwin Armstrong's breakthrough in vacuum tube detectors. It describes regenerative feedback circuits that amplify received radio signals, enabling beat notes and heterodyne reception, and names circuit variants such as Feed Rack Tickler Tuned Plate and Ultra Audion.
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Eewin H. Armstrong
Performance Test Methods for Radio Receiving Sets
The Department of Commerce and the Bureau of Standards have issued performance test rules to be performed by the Electrical Testing Laboratories of New York in cooperation with the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Tests cover material and workmanship, design, adjustability, ruggedness, sensitivity, tuning sharpness, wavelength range, and fidelity of reproduction in radio reception.
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Department of Commerce
Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Electrical Testing Laboratories of
New York
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Malcolm Gimson Works His Way to Emma Ginner
Malcolm Gimson, a frugal student at the Alpha Beta house, takes a two job plan to fund his needs. He accepts a boarding arrangement with Emma Ginner after impressing her family and confesses his plan to marry Emma at the family dinner. The uncle Roger Smith reappears, revealing a long friendship with Mr Ginner and approving the match.
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Tom Higgens
Malcolm’ Gimson
Higg
Wid
Malcolm
Tom
Gregory Ginner
Park Lane
Malcolm Gimson
Emma Ginner
Emma
Mamma
Mr. Ginner
Fred
Mrs. Ginner
Mr. Gimson
Roger
Malcol Gimson
Chuck College
Shim
Roge Smith
Ginner
Mr. Smith
Radio Talk Sparks Privacy and Tax Debate
Dr Marconi praises radio for private conversations while critics joke about apartment life and family chatter. The piece notes Newark officials proposing a $1 annual tax on radio aerials and cites a report that President Harding has a powerful set in the White House.
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Dr. Marconi
Jarr
Newark
N. J
Washington
Harding
White House
Fe Seine
Sian
The Death Wave in Ancient and Folkloric Beliefs
The piece surveys old beliefs about powerful waves, noting the ninth death wave in Ovidian times, English fishermen calling it the death wave, and claims about a feared tenth wave. It cites Scottish and Icelandic lore, St Patrick legends, and the recurring use of the numbers 3 9 and 10 in ancient explanations.
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Ovid
Jesus Christ
England
Scotland
Iceland
Patrick
Ireland
How the Aphis Breeds
The Smithsonian Institution reports the hop aphis shows remarkable fecundity. A mother produces 13 generations yearly, each averaging about 100 offspring. Without enemies or natural causes interfering, her progeny could reach well into ten sextillion aphids each year.
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Smithsonian Institution
Aphis
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Edwin H. Armstrong