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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1926
Page
11
The article explains a home built radio circuit with a variable aerial resistance yielding exceptional signal strength and selectivity comparable to five-tube tuners and neutrodyne sets. It notes reduced summer static, excellent tone, and ease of tuning using a 400 ohm potentiometer, two coil webs, and a fixed or variable crystal detector.
The Pittsburgh station KDKA shows two antenna systems at once one upright for short wave and one horizontal for its assigned broadcasting wavelength. The upright type is highly efficient with minimal tuning and maximum practical height, while the horizontal antenna aids long distance transmission though its fundamental frequency is not as closely aligned to the radiated wavelength.
The radio laboratory of the Bureau of Standards finds collodion superior as a binder for tuning coils. Tests vs varnish shellac and paraffin show collodion provides low resistance and dries rapidly, reducing delays in coil construction and offering practical advantages for bank-wound coils.
Tubes are not uniform in characteristics. After months of use, they develop slight differences that suit radio frequency audio frequency or detector service. To identify the best tube for a condition, shift it between sockets and observe the instant effect.
The text notes that a ground wire connected to the radiator introduces high resistance into the circuit. It states this change will have a considerable effect on the receiving set and mentions cold water as best for ground connection.
In a Loulaville Courier-Journal exchange, Willie asks if man was ever a bird. Mother responds that she believes all men are birds, asserting no man exists who is not a bird.
Dialogic exchange features Clarice and Harold with playful flirtation and bravado. Clarice asserts two of her brothers are marines while Harold counters with mock defiance. The line ends with a jab about keeping a laugh aimed at others.
Diamond Dye promotes home dyeing for kids and home furnishings. It offers free Color Craft booklet and a cyclopedia with directions, color samples, and piece-goods guidance from Diamond Dyes, Dept N10, Burlington Vermont.
Paris reports that Prof George Willis Ritchey is finishing a telescope to show the moon from ten miles distant and to reveal stars 15 000 times farther than currently observable. The reflector will be 19 feet 8 inches in diameter and the glass furnace took two years to build.
Game Warden A C Wagner of Tiffin Ohio reports seven quail hatched from eight eggs after a mother bird was killed by an automobile. Eggs were kept in a cotton nest heated by an electric lamp as a substitute incubation method.
The five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Casanovitch of Sharpsville Pennsylvania was carried fifty feet on the front step when a shifting engine started. She escaped injury or death as witnesses and train crew searched the area before finding her seated on the step.
The hospital and medical school in Denver plan color coded rooms. X ray room features violet red walls for light absorption and calming effect. Operating room uses soft gray. Disturbed patient wards use yellowish green for tranquillity and cheer. North facing rooms are yellow, south facing areas use sunshine gray.
Salt water mains may supply downtown fires in Lynn and other seaside cities via electric pumps triggered by the fire alarm system. The system is viewed as cheaper and more dependable than using fresh city water.
A compact aphorism notes that excess spurs calls for reform. It suggests restraint and reassessment when surplus becomes burdensome, urging timely change before problems compound.
A quip recalls a traveler asking distance to Hopsville and a playful answer counts three hot dog stands and a filling station as the mile markers. The line echoes midcentury road humor and roadside commerce in a concise exchange.
The Avon electric generating plant near Cleveland uses 420000 gallons per minute mainly to condense steam from large turbines. This rate equals the water a city of 100000 would consume in half a day, illustrating the plant’s immense water needs.
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