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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1926
Page
2
The Christmas Cheer association will hold its first meeting Tuesday morning at 10:30 at the St. Anthony hotel. Mrs. Sam Slack, president, announced that officers will be elected and the organization for holiday charity work will be perfected. Everyone interested is asked to attend.
W. E. Baker, president of Day-Fer Medtric Co., Dayton, comments that broadcast chaos clears up slowly yet spurs progress. He notes President Coolidge may address the issue in a congress message and acknowledges some good effects amid the disruption.
A dense schedule lists numerous radio and church programs across stations including WLIB WGN WEAF and WLW. Highlights feature orchestras concerts organ recitals and vesper services spanning afternoon to late night with names like Principia Dobneryt and Des Moines orchestra.
A campaign to increase Christmas seal sales was started by the Bexar County Public Health Association to fund a tuberculosis program. Dr Theo Y Anil, president, announced the drive on Saturday, aiming to hire full time nurses in 1927 and educate individuals and families on preventing infection. The disease spreads through close contact within households.
Mrs Pants Gibson divorced wife of Addison Gibson of New York was fined 100 dollars for driving an automobile while intoxicated. The report from Universal Service notes the incident occurred on December 4 in New York.
Two famed sleep dominators join forces the Nutty club of WREM and Coach Sanders' Kansas City Nighthawks will broadcast exclusively over WBBM from the Bisckhawk Grill Chicago. The remote program runs during the Nutty club’s three weekly midnight sessions on Wednesday Saturday and Sunday.
The piece lists factors for good tone quality in broadcasting including clean signal, pure RF amplification, detector action, wide and even AF amplification, sufficient power tubes especially in the final stage, a loud speaker with a proper filter to block DC, and correct speaker placement for proper sound distribution and acoustic background.
Public Safety Commissioner John H. Taylor urged Birmingham theater managers to drop midnight shows and support Cinderella matinees instead. He threatened to push a prohibitive city ordinance to ban midnight performances.
A Chicago station WEBM reportedly broke a long distance daylight reception record during a Sunday Once-a-Week club broadcast. Messages from San Diego at 4 27 p m Chicago time and later radiograms from the Atlantic and Halifax Nova Scotia followed, confirming the achievement.
President Coolidge appoints Sidney P. Taliaferro, Washington lawyer and educator, as commissioner of the District of Columbia, succeeding C. Rudolph who resigned. The move announced from Washington on December 4.
A reader explains that battery performance issues often stem from corroded or loose contacts. Clean terminals and wires, rub terminals with sandpaper if needed, and tighten clamps before tuning to the strongest signal. Then connect the positive wire tightly for optimal reception.
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