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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1928
Page
8
A young man borrows money years ago in a foreign country and, after a week, speaks on KGO the Pacific Coast station. Now he receives a letter from a DX hound nearly a thousand miles away asking for repayment, illustrating radio’s power to renew old ties.
Ten top amateur singers from across the nation will perform in the finals of the 1928 national radio audition on the Atwater Kent hour. Finalists include Dixie Carmen Rosell, Ernest Feratta, Irene Kilgore, Donald Nevis, Gladys Ball, Wilfred Engelman, Hazel Arth, Kenneth Hines, Anna Mae Chandler, and Patrick Henry Wilson Jr. Top prize is $5,000 each with subsequent cash and scholarships, plus post contest opportunities in major cities.
The Indianapolis Times reports that the Department of Commerce notes 23,000,000 homes have receiving sets and 14,000,000 loudspeakers in use, with all-electric radio sets expected to dominate Christmas sales. Console and dynamic load sets are in high demand as Santa Claus delivers modern radio toys this December 1928. City finances: Michigan City finance director W H Billings resigns effective Saturday due to financial strains and tax-rate concerns.
The navy department reports the battleship Maryland transmits about sixteen thousand words daily. News and messages reach newspapers nationwide from aboard the ship, relayed via San Diego naval radio and telegraph circuits as President elect Hoover travels on a Latin America goodwill tour.
Reached the 1928 finals after last year's semi finals, Hazel Arth Gladys Morrison Ball and Donald Nevis compete. The final will be judged by a board of nationally recognized musical authorities appointed by the National Radio Audition Sponsorship committee. Members include Mme Ernestine Schumann Heink Mme Louise Homer Mrs Otto Kahn and Edward W Bok.
Radio vacuum valves in receivers give excellent results for about a year with average use. After that period they should be carefully tested and any below par tubes discarded and replaced. Do not mix old and new tubes unless the old test up well, as mismatched tubes require higher voltages that can damage new tubes.
WBAL Baltimore now on the air more in a single day than a full week three years ago. When it began the station was silent two nights weekly and total on air time reached ten hours.
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