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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
2
An inexpensive guide describes building a crystal detector with silicon or galena on a metal button, copper strip, and wood base. It explains wiring to a condenser, ground, and phones, plus how to adjust the detector and tuner slider to receive stations like KDIK A, when complemented by a 50 cent condenser and Murdoch receivers.
Articles describe unpredictable tube behavior that startles beginners. A newborn fan misinterpreted audion tube noises as an explosion and fled the room, later returning only after securing power off. Other cases note bulbs emitting multicolored vapors inside vacuum chambers.
Revenue officers say moonshiners in Kentucky mountains increasingly use a rigophone to communicate, undermining raids in recent months as they pursue distillers of white lightning.
Instructions on assembling a simple radio system note firing a 22 caliber rifle shells for detector cups and galena mineral contact. Recommend a single 100 to 150 foot wire aerial for local and long distance reception while avoiding streets and power lines. Use copper or stranded copper wire with phosphor bronze as a stronger option. Use cleaned brass ends of large cartridge shells as detector cups and heat treat cardboard tubes before winding to remove moisture. Apply shellac after winding and secure with bare wire threading to separate turns.
In Grafton, judge Robert Grant fears losing his fortune and daughter Jessie to Martin Blake. Martin schemes to secure the judge’s property by faking a plan to move to a bigger town while secretly arranging a dramatic reveal. A staged cellar fright and the arrival of new residents aim to scare the buyers away, letting Martin become the judge’s business agent and Jessie’s suitor.
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