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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
8
A readable guide explains building a simple crystal detector using silicon or galena, a metal button, copper strip, wood base, and binding posts. It covers assembly, grounding, and adjusting the tuner slider to tune a station like KBICA between 8:30 and 9:30 pm, plus optional parts and costs.
A discussion of odd tube behaviors including unexplained tube glow and frightening reactions from newcomers, with notes on bulbs emitting colored vapors. The article also mentions moonshiners in Kentucky using radio and radiophone to aid illicit distilling operations.
The article offers practical guidance for early radio building detailing shell and wire choices for detectors and antennas. It covers 22 caliber rifle shell switches, a 100 to 150 foot single wire antenna, non conductors and pole avoidance, copper wire preference, and using brass cartridge ends as detector cups. It also suggests drying and winding cardboard tubes for tuning coils and notes framing and handling cautions.
A fragmentary kitchen page lists fudge recipes like Chocolate Nut Fudge and Ginger Fudge, plus Coconut Dream and California Grilled Almonds. It also includes Mushroom on Toast, Asparagus Soup, Potato Cakes, Lamb Pigeone, and Honey Gingerbread, all with rough directions and measurements. The text ends with a quip about appetite and a line about mushrooms joining the land’s menu.
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