Phone Conversations Put On Air
Rix years as a radio entertainer do not keep Little Jack Little from the air. He conducted a long distance telephone chat with a listener in Laila Tex via a special microphone pickup aboard the National Limited. Calls from Lima Ohio Glendive Mont Elkhart Ind Sioux City Iowa Milwaukee Abderdeen S21 and Bismarck No DL were heard. Telegrams flooded in.
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Glendive
Mont
Elkhart
Ind
Sioux City
Iowa
Milwaukee
Abderdeen S21
Bismarck
Beck Family Keeps Frog Trade Alive Through Generations
Cambridge business traces its start to Civil War veteran John P. Beck who began selling frog legs after tasting them in the south. The enterprise grew to supply universities and laboratories worldwide, but Prohibition shifted focus to cold storage and laboratories. Robert M. Beck now runs the operation with a brief nod to his son Jackie ready to carry on.
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Cambridge
Mass
Bay State
John P. Beck
Massachusetts
Middlesex County
L. E. Whipple
Whipple
Colineburg
Beck
London
Oxford
Robert
Boston
Robert M. Beck
John Barleycorn
Jackie
Wisconsin Capitol Used For Big City Events
Wisconsin's capitol in Madison serves as a venue for university events, political programs, inaugurations and legislative sessions. The winter snow piled on the northwest steps invites youths to slide and ski down the steep chute, reflecting the building’s versatile uses.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Henry Selinger Returns to WGN Chicago Air
Henry Selinger resumes hosting on WGN Chicago bringing new energy to the station’s lineup. He previously left the program and now returns to the airwaves delivering updated commentary and segments.
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Henry Selinger
WGN
Chicago
Commercial radio operators face stricter qualification tests
Commercial radio operators now face tighter standards under the new international radio rules. Tests are faster and longer, with increased required experience and aptitude in handling equipment. The top extra first class requires 50 words per minute in Continental Morse and 20 in plain language, plus proficiency with modern broadcast apparatus. no code test is needed for radio telephone class operators.
Radio Industry Details First Broadcast Plan For February 6
The Radio Manufacturers' Association outlines a February 6 program to showcase radio entertainment across a rotating pair of networks. WJZ and affiliates in New York will air the initial 6:30 pm Eastern broadcast, with a coast to coast follow-up planned and a year of programming contemplated.
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Radio Industrys Finet
Lyon
Radio Manufacturers’ Association
B. G. Erskine
National
Columbis
RMA
WJZ
WBY
WBZA
WRAL
WHAM
KDKA
WLW
WIR
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KYW
WOR
National Hookup to Broadcast Farm Prospects Outlook
A national farm outlook broadcast is planned for the week of January 28. Sixteen NBC stations will air a one hour program January 28 at 1 45 p m EST featuring eight committee chairmen, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, and the U S Marine Band. The department will also run a 15 minute pre program on the noon net followed by further broadcasts across 10 farm lines at 1 15 p m EST.
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Washington
NBC
Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine
United States Marine Band
Department
A. F. Woods
Oscillation Based Music Instrument Demonstrated in London
A London report describes a musical device using an oscillation source to produce notes. A vertical brass tube with a tuned current generates sounds when a finger is near, creating notes from a speaker. Manipulating distance along an imagined keyboard yields a series of pitches.
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London
Lost Your Boat A Way To Find It
In Gainesville Florida professor A M Skeller of WRUP develops a radio aided method to locate a submerged outboard motor at Orange Lake about a mile south of town. He lowered an electrical apparatus and meter into the water to detect the motor by changes in current as he approached the submerged craft.
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Gainesville
Fla
A. M. Skeller
Florida
WRUP
Orange Lake
Here
Radio fa short courses at Wit Atlanta announce final talk
A series of radio educational talks from Wit Atlanta covers many subjects with the last broadcast scheduled for January 31.
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Wit
Atlanta
Barber Turns Violin Maker Creating Tone Perfect Instruments
Chicago barber Vernon L. Schwenk, crippled yet skilled, handcrafts nearly one violin or cello monthly. His tone perfect claim drew praise from Frederick Stock of the Chicago Symphony, with instruments sought by musicians and a career shift from barbering to luther self taught luthier work. Schwenk uses hard maple and spruce and harmonizes three tone pitches by adjusting wood weight and thickness.
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Chicago
Vernon L. Scawenk
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Stock
Schwenk
Vigins
Centuries Old Toad Resumes Hibernation in Sand Bed
In Frederick Oklahoma, a toad named Pleisty, believed to be 500000 to 750000 years old from a Philistocene stratum, has resumed dormancy in a gravel pit. Discovered after emerging from rocks, the creature's translucent skin and shrunken stomachs fascinated geologists and locals alike, with mixed outcomes for the rescued toads.
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Toad
Frederick
Okla
Rip van Winkle
Pleisty
A. H. Holloman
Holloman’s
Tillman County
Net Fork
Red River
Woodmen of the World Fun and Frolic Feast Stirring Ads
The Woodmen of the World event is being widely advertised and officials expect strong attendance. The feast and entertainment will take place at the Dothan boxing arena on Thursday February 7th.
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Dothan Boxing Arena
Talks of Ages Past Cincinnati Ghie 47 Dr Fenton
Dr CLL Fenton curator of paleontology at the University of Cincinnati speaks each Wednesday from Cincinnati on distant ages. The first talk January 30 is titled Hurting Vag Game of Ancient Davas.
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Cincinnati
Cll. Fenton
The
Univerity of Cincinnati
Whew
Aces opereta Florida 1907 presented by WFLA
A 1907 operetta titled Aces opereta Florida produced by Homer Moore will be presented by station WFLA Clearwater on Monday. An hour and a half rehearsal is required.
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