Edison Steinmetz visit marks Schenectady era
The long-ago week featured Thomas Edison visiting Charles Steinmetz in Schenectady, demonstrations of artificial lightning and crystal radio, and the birth of local radio stations WGY and WHAZ. Prohibition enforcement, a fatal accident on the 112th Street Bridge project, and other historical notes from 1922 were recounted.
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Thomas A. Edison
West Orange
N.J
Charles P. Steinmetz
General Electric
Edison
Schenectady
Steinmetz
Raue
WGY
RPI
WHAZ
Alfred E. Smith
Celebrity gossip Q and A from a TV era panel
Readers quiz reply column covers Shriver Odile Rubirosa gossip in Paris and Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s silence Paris press gossip notes. It also explains Nixon era Chowder and Marching Club history and Reacts to Jackie Onassis style photos. The panel answers questions about Peter Boyle Loretta Young Phyllis Diller Cohan Berlin Beard Kerr Child and Sophie Tucker quotes.
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Sargent Shriver
Rubiresa
Paris
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Fred R
Oakland
London
Shriver
Odile
Rodin Rubirosa
The
National Enquirer
Shrivers
Mr. Shriver
Eunice
James Beard
Miriam §S
Waterbury
Conn
A. Beard
Kerr
Julia Child
Dinah Shore
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By Joseph A. Parker
Troy Record
John Zelie
First Presbyterian Church
Russia
Troy
America
Cebleskill
Leonard Hospital
112Th Street
Lansingburgh
Cohoes
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
American Legion
Glens Falls
Jamaica Bay
Prohibition
Army
Ft. Ethan Allen
St. Albans
J. A. Frear
Wisconsin
Sec. of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon
HY Gardner
Nixon
Congress
Robert T. S
Washington, B.C
Richard Nixon
Informa
Jackie
Priscia
Rodney Dangerfield
R. Peterson
St. Louis. A
M. Stern
Brooklyn
Rome Hospital
Peter Boyle
Joe
Houston
Boyle
Peter
Paramount
Candy Bergen
T. R. Baskin
Chicago
Loretta Young
R. S
Omaha
Miss Young
Loretta Young Youth Project
Phoenix
Ariz
Blaeck and
Adrianne B
Harrisburg
Phyllis Diller
George M. Cohan
James Cagmey
Irving Berlin
Tucson
Warner Bros
Miami Beach
Shelly
Denver
Rachel L
Oklahoma City
Sophie Tucker
Ann-Margret
Roger Smith
Academy OF Self-Defense
Ave. Y
NEA, the. A
Fond du Lec, Wis
West Third St
Cleveland
Ohio
Phacts
J. H
Fallon
Troy Drug CO
2Nd Street
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