Hammarland Roberts circuit upgrades for improved reception
The Radio Broadcast Magazine describes Hammarland Roberts, derived from Roberts circuit, and outlines modifications to improve regeneration and control. Changes include a condenser-feedback regeneration, replacing tickler with a small midget condenser, coil alterations, a choke in the audio transformer primary, and reworking audio stages for uniform amplification and easier switching.
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Hammarland-Roberts
Laboratory
Roberts
John B. Brennan
Radio Broadcast
Short Grid Wires and Bunched Wiring in Radio Sets
The article argues that while short wires help, excessive emphasis on tight routing leads amateurs to awkward layouts. It asserts most wires besides grid connections can be bunched into one cable with No. 18 insulated wire, and that grid connections on audio stages need only be short in some cases. It predicts busbar wiring will fade as a marker of old sets.
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Whro
Brennan
Hints on Caring for Portable Radio on Vacation
Portable outfit tips urge checking soldered wires and working receiver before travel. Carry spare vacuum tubes and dry cell batteries if no supply base is nearby. Handle the loud speaker with care and ensure good genial and ground connections.
The New Cars The New Beauty and Body by Fisher
Cadillac Buick Chevrolet Oakland Oldsmobile Pontiac promoted as the greatest cars in their classes with Body by Fisher branding. The copy emphasizes supreme quality and value attached to each model as a selling point.
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Fisher
General Motors
Cadillac
Buick
Chevrolet
Oakland
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Ulster Linen Trade Faces Foreign Competition Decline
The Belfast Ulster linen trade suffers as foreign yarns cost less due to low exchange rates. French and Belgian yarns undersell Ulster while the 1926 export drop reaches a monthly 1,250,000 in the first part of 1926 versus 1925, which was already weak.
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Belfast
Ulster
France
Belgium
Chicago Daily News
New Daylight Screen Uses Color Atrapes
A daylight motion picture screen now uses a surface of colored atriapes continually moved over two cylinders. The concept highlights a stylish device for film projection with novel motion and color elements.
Titus Tice Tale Captures Boston Speculator Banter
Millionaire broker Darius L Chauncey cites Titus Tice the village usurer in a Boston brokers banquet tale. The story centers on a patent medicine sale and a silver dollar offered at auction. Titus bids a dime, quibbles over change, and the medicine man proclaims the dollar his.
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Danny Titus Tite
Darius L. Chauncey
Boston
Titus Tice
Titus
Titus Tite
Rockefeller
Penn Walking Purchase of 1082 Land Treaty Explained
The Walking Purchase recounts William Penn acquiring Delaware Indian land in present Larks and Northampton counties Pennsylvania bounded by the Delaware River. The party began at Neshaning creek and, after a day and a half, Penn claimed enough territory and received a deed about 40 miles from the start. In 1787 the distance was increased to 70 miles.
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Penn
William Penn
Larks
Northampton
Pennsylvania
Delaware River
Neshaning Creek
Proverb From Jesse Livermore On Investing Cautions
Wall Street figure Jesse Livermore told a luncheon a young minister asked about investing in a certain company. He described listing the company's officers and condemning them as a shady lot. He warned that a company is known by the men it keeps.
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Jesse Livermore
Wall Street
Business a Pleasure Oculist Quip Sparks Wry Exchange
A witty exchange features a man declaring he will become an oculist. The companion asks why, and the man jokes that gazing into a girl's eyes will let him charge her for it, capturing a humorous, era-tinged boast.
Dog Coffee Fan in McPherson County Declares Habit
Otis Greenlaw of Canton owns a dog described as a McPherson County product that drinks coffee with meals three times daily. The story notes McPherson’s reputation for high coffee consumption among descendants of Swedish pioneers. The article avoids asserting the dog’s Swedish lineage.
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McPherson County
Kansas
Otis Greenlaw
Canton
Tradeoffs in Sharp Banter Across a Narrow Doorway
Dialogue notes a terse exchange where Walter states tight space and a responder remarks most are small change. The lines hint at a broader theme of speech versus action in cramped conditions and reflect a concise, terse interaction.
Dead man serves no purpose in the world
A terse old line notes that a dead man is as useless as a lazy person, wasting space and providing no value to others.
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Tesa
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