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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1922
Page
2
A historic DIY guide outlines constructing a nonregenerative vacuum tube receiver. It covers battery needs, winding a tuning coil from No 22 DCC wire, wood end blocks, shellac, and assembling detector components including a VOV Radiotron tube, filament rheostat, grid condenser, and earphone. It references baseboard mounting and wiring diagrams Fig 16 and Fig 17.
An address at Medora by National Editorial Association members recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s youth on the northern plains. It highlights his frontier life, frontiersman companions, and the Elk Horn and Chimney Buttes ranches. Roosevelt’s health, courage, and leadership are praised as shaping his later national role.
Australia begins building a moth moth radio plant in Melbourne to link directly with Great Britain. Substations will be three times as powerful as European stations. Central station aims to speak 12 000 miles daily. Canada to host receiving and sending stations. England to supply main plant. feeder stations built in Australia at one per state. Total cost about 5 million dollars.
Short flashes note San Francisco concerts broadcast from Schenectady and New York soldiers drilled uptown. Coast beachgoers use ear pieces to listen to radio between swims while educational experts praise radio for aiding subnormal children. Dentists also profit as ear pieces distract patients from mouth troubles.
Freddie Hay of Minneapolis, a 15 year old world champion horseshoe pitcher, will compete at the National Horseshoe Pitching Tournament during the Iowa State Fair from August 28 to September 1. He placed fifth nationally last year and is among 73 stars expected at the event.
A sequence of birth notices lists new arrivals in Armstrong Estherville Triumph and surrounding communities. Names include Ardys Opal Opsal Ardytle Opsal Derwine Ha worth Haworth William Gorman Clarence Brunsvold Stanley Anderson Mary Amundsen Kenneth Cooper Robert Fellman Ruth Severin George Simpson Jr and Francis Wickwire with parents and town references noted.
Notice of a petition filed in Emmet County Iowa to establish a gravel surfaced Secondary Road District No 8 B. Hearing before the Board of Supervisors at Estherville Court House at 1 pm on September 5, 1922. List of landowners in the district. August 12 1922 J B Kloppp County Auditor. Virginia cemetery notices follow with names and dates.
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