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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1931
Page
5
New York reports that television, while not yet ready for mass reception, shows steady progress. Home built sets work, with crude yet functional results, using a shortwave receiver and picture reproducer, eight tubes, shielding, a 48 to 60 hole scanning disk, neon lamp, and motor to drive the disk.
Most Rev Cosmo Gordon Lang the Archbishop of Canterbury will be unable to resume his duties for months due to an exhausting neuralgic disorder. Doctors prescribe three months of strict rest with his location kept secret at a country retreat. If health improves he may travel abroad. Lang, once an aspiring lawyer, pursued the bar at Oxford and in the Temple before turning to the church.
The article traces a clergyman who rose from obscurity to ordination in 18% and progressed to the Archbishopric of York then Canterbury. He is a bachelor, seventh son of a seventh son, a Scotch Presbyterian father, noted as a skilled church diplomat. His notable effort on revising the Book of Common Prayer was rejected by the House of Commons.
New York report profiles Frank Hawks the 1990 American outstanding aviator. Ambitious to attack Europe’s top air speed marks this summer, Hawks plans to sail March 31 aboard a trim monoplane. His team set speed records across U S routes in 1990 and logged over twenty-five thousand miles in five months. Hawks’ career spans glider interest in youth to military aviation service and leadership in commercial flight operations.
London is set to get a public petting garden described as a winter garden for young lovers. A wealthy impresario pledges over 1 million dollars to build a concert and dance hall with free garden access and paid events. George Lansbury, 72, notes the plan needs a suitable site and seeks a place where couples can feel at home yet not truly at home.
Planet X Pluto nears spring as Pluto completes about 250 earthly years per orbit. Lowell predicted the path and recent photos reveal Pluto’s highly elliptical orbit and seasonal shifts. Pluto’s day length and sun brightness vary with its tilted orbit and extreme distance from Neptune.
Aged Gloria Caruso to open a series on child health on WABC April 18 at 4:00 p.m. introduced by Dorothy Caruso. NBC offers TV glimpses with dolls and smiling actresses on WZXBS. Baseball stars Ruth Grove Wilson Vance discuss season on WJZ at 6:45 p.m. Monday. Various acts and talks follow on WEAF WABC and network.
The program list features the Association of University Women WIZ and multiple station slots at 2:00 for a talk by Rep. James Hamilton Fish on veterans loan justification, a WABCC hookup at 5:00, Toscha Seidel violinist with concert orchestra at 9:00, and Arabesque at Cocep all tied to the WABC network.
Huron operates a bonded warehouse with storage space totaling 30 008 square feet. The city is promoted as the center of the best pheasant hunting country in the world.
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