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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1929
Page
3
Anna Steward and the Stewart sisters, famed vaudeville entertainers, perform as Harmony on radio. They specialize in children's songs animal tales and rhymes. Their radio appearance follows the Glad Club for children which promotes daily joy kindness and obedience.
A county wide hookup uses radio to deliver daily lessons to 36 schools in Fort Bend County Texas with 1000 pupils. For 3000 dollars receivers and loudspeakers were bought, broadcasts start at 9 20 daily from the superintendent's office on a 200 meter wavelength, with battery sets due to power limits.
A fragmented list of programs and times from Wahurday Program co Fonteid and other stations. Includes Pure Oil Co Pro Intersery Kid, Sundey Pancake Program, Roxy Chimpebery Mp, Venus People’s Center, Baldwin Collier’s Radio Ho Uncle Sam, and Edison Program. Mentions various local sponsors, times like 10:08 pm, and shows such as The Jolly Wren Jun and His Gang.
Washington AP reports Maj. Gen. Charles Saltzman, former army signal corps chief, has been chosen by President Hoover to represent the fourth zone on the federal radio commission. He retired from the army in January 1928 and will serve while living in Town, state of his birth. The fourth zone includes Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Missouri.
Detroit police dispatches will connect thirteen Michigan state police posts across the southern peninsula by radio via WCK to instantly notify posts of bank robberies or other crimes in Detroit. Bank robbers typically flee by automobile to out state highways, guiding post locations accordingly.
An Atwater Kent Radio Hour program on April 7 features Louise Homer Metropolitan Opera contralto and pianist Kathleen Stewart as co stars. The broadcast comes as WEAI and others connect nationwide via a new 50 000 watt transmitter and a university professor from Columbia and a Manchester scholar discuss the network's reach.
Boston reports Albert BiClark announces a development of a communications system enabling hundreds of different messages to be transmitted simultaneously on a single radio waveband. Applications for patents on the device and a synchronizing device for television have been filed.
Ap News reports Jepson, aged 50, remains active in New York music circles as a rising soprano, continuing a streak of notable performances.
The Entre Now Club met on Wednesday with roll call using a Bible verse and a discussion on Easter's significance. Local life covered included road reopening between Lawrence and Eudora, quilting gatherings, visits from Kansas City, school cleanup at Framland, and various residents moving, visiting, and attending events in the Kaw Valley community.
Joan Lowell, famed for Nest Happily called The Cradle of the Deep, will broadcast her sea tale over Eveready Hour. Thirty stations will link with WEAF for a national radio airing Tuesday night at nine. Her dramatic account describes a life at sea and a dramatic debut to wide fame.
Flower Club attendees include Mrs. BR Nicholson Mrs Grant Risley Mrs Koehring and Carol Martin plus J C Saunders Virginia W Waiters won county reading contest and visited relatives Fannie Braden of Elsmore returned home from visit with Ray Ogden and Margaret Nydia Hughes visited relatives Flora Nelle Bigsby of Topeka was Sunday guest ALT Gilkisson county farm agent was in valley Tuesday Arthur Ott and children spent Saturday with Mrs Wm Ott Zero plane from Colorado Springs landed in Ralph Davis field and remained until Thursday morning John Ott Jr Don Westheffer Fannie Braden and Ray Ogden visited Farmland school Wednesday afternoon.
Weather bureau predicts showers and local thunderstorms tonight or Sunday across Kansas with cooler air. Eastern Kansas saw near midsummer temperatures last night while western Kansas dipped to the forties. Forecaster Flora says highs near 80 today, then cooling to near 45 in the east and near freezing in the northwest tonight, with little or no rain in the last 24 hours.
AP report from Peoria says the Macomb Illinois post office was robbed early today by two yeggmen who opened the safe with a torch, taking about 23,000 in cash stamps and securities after entering through a basement window between midnight and 6 am.
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