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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1928
Page
2
Readable fragments show a dense broadcast grid across Indianapolis stations and national networks. Entries list times, performers, venues, and programs from morning through late evening including orchestras, concerts, and radio news.
The listing outlines a morning program with 4:00 time slot featuring Best Daylight Features by Julius C Walk & Son. Hair and scalp care by Stanley E Harral at Hlir-Avain studios. 3:05 livestock market and weather from Indianapolis and Kansas City. 3:15 radio tinker from Alamo Sales Co. 3:45 personal beauty advice from Boneilla Laboratories.
A dense schedule of broadcast church services, musical programs, concerts, and orchestral hours across stations in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and other cities. Entries include Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Episcopal services, plus NBC and CBS network music hours and special performances.
Washington July 7. Military aviation may become an independent factor in national defense as a proposal to divorce the Air Corps from the Army gains serious consideration at the War Department. The plan would keep the Air Corps under War Department jurisdiction with its own auxiliary services and near full control of its affairs. Aviation officers are laying groundwork for the change.
Times Special reports in Bloomington Indiana the new airport will be dedicated about July 15 with the exact date to depend on completion of field clearing.
Russell Hosier, formerly of Huntington and now in Toledo Ohio, seeks financial backing in Huntington for a flight starting there and ending in Tokio Japan.
Thirty cattle hides to be used by a Yarmouth firm to fill a contract for thirty pairs of shoes of extraordinary design for Commander Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition.
In Chamonix France on July 7 Aviator Thoret with passengers Maurice Far man and Pourcel flew over Mt Blanc despite violent winds at an altitude of 400 meters confirming daring alpine flight.
The Embry Riddle Company of Cincinnati has bought a $13 800 Fairchild monoplane for the Cin cinnati Chicago air mail route. Donald A McConnell, the local representative, says the aircraft will be used in mail service and exhibitions after arriving from Moline Illinois where the Monocoupe was built and flown to Cincinnati via Indianapolis.
Capt. H. Weir Cook of the National Guard 113th Observation Squadron at Indianapolis airport arrived Friday with a new Q-17 from Buffalo New York. The plane was added to the flight squad completing the seven new training ships quota. Sergt. Russell Long made his second solo flight Friday afternoon in a Waco 10 in preparation for a commercial pilot license. He now has about one hour solo flight to his credit.
The twenty third annual international type writing contest for professional amateur and school novice classes will be held in Sacramento California on Sept. 29 marking the first Pacific Coast hosting since the inauguration. State contests across the country have selected representatives and more than seventy entrants will compete as state representatives or individual entrants in the school novice division.
Fresno based justice of the peace George Washington Smith reports he has married over 5,000 couples in 25 years. His peak yearly total was 349 marriages in one year. In unrelated notes, Carl Frank Hoppe of Atkinson Nebraska is believed to be the league’s youngest member, joining the Izaak Walton League at 10 days old.
Junkers pilots Risticz and Zimmerman remain aloft aiming to top the 58 hour 37 minute world mark set by Italians Ferrarin and Del Prete. They battled Friday night storms after departing Leipsic and returning when weather eased.
Michigan’s attorney general rules Gypsy bands may settle anywhere in the state for as long as they wish provided they mind their own business. Local officers had customarily ordered nomads to move on when they pitched camps, but the opinion counters eviction attempts and supports the rights of the groups to stay.
The Philco Electric radio receiver from Philadelphia Storage Battery Company was introduced to 100 Indiana dealers at a Lincoln luncheon. Robert Herr, company service engineer, explained the receiver uses the new Neutrodyne-Plus circuit.
Twenty three airplanes of the national air tour continue westward with a nonstop flight to San Antonio. The first week's leg covers nearly a quarter of the 6300 mile route as crews plan daily flying next week except Friday rest in Los Angeles. The caravan will pass Marfa El Paso Tucson Yuma San Diego and Los Angeles before reaching San Francisco a week hence.
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