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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1925
Page
13
The Cleveland Police Department announces the use of radio equipped cars to aid in pursuing criminals. Eight 70 horsepower squadron cars will carry headsets loudspeakers and batteries with a headquarter sending station to broadcast orders. Tests showed clear reception at 54 mph and officials say response times will improve dramatically.
A fragmented schedule lists Davenport and Chicago area stations with varying programs including orchestras, musical periods, concerts, dance hours, and organ recitals. Highlights include chimes concert at Davenport and orchestral broadcasts from WEBH Chicago and WCCO Minneapolis Saint Paul.
Twenty radio stations nationwide plan Electric Night on Oct 21 to mark the forty sixth anniversary of the incandescent lamp by Edison. Officials including Werbert Hoover and William Jardine will speak from WHC and WBAL while other stations broadcast talks on electrification and public utilities.
Zenith Radio Corp announces WJAZ Chicago will go on air once Commander E F McDonall returns from Arctic expedition with Donald B McMillan. L H Reding, company representative, says the station will embody the latest radio engineering and be capable of broadcasting.
A program will mark the formal opening of the new radio system with Commander McDonald delivering an address. Zenith Radio Corp is developing a 10 tube receiver with single dial control. The set features six RF stages, two AF stages and two push pull amplifiers for simplicity and efficiency.
Frances Troutner of Charles City Iowa, deaf for 25 years, heard music again using a radiophone receiver built by a local Charles City man. The seven tube superheterodyne set was installed by her son Ezra Troutner, marking another radio triumph in the town.
A musical program by Atwater Kent artists Louise Homer and Ruth Emerson is set for 8:15 p m Sunday on station WOC Davenport. The lineup includes operatic arias and piano pieces such as Largo from Ner- nonets. Mermaid song. Long Long Ago. Banjo song How s My Boy. On Wings of Song and works by Mendelssohn Saint Saens and Homer.
The town cide highlights sections of interest before the pheasant hunt set for Oct 20 22. It details Sec 1729 revocation of hunting licenses held by others and hunting on enclosed lands without owner permission. Sec 13 104 imposes a fine up to 10 dollars plus costs for hunting on cultivated land with dogs without owner consent.
In a national guard rifle range contest, T. V. Richards of La Porte City J. J. Kleckner of Dunkerton and C. L. Jeppeson of Waterloo won the chance to represent the Black Hawk vigilantes at the Des Moines state shoot next Monday and Tuesday for high man honors with cash prizes and medals. About 50 members form the Black Hawk vigilantes, a voluntary group aiding Sheriff H. T. Wagner against bank robbers and dangerous criminals.
Dora M. Bock widow of Charles Bock Jr files in district court to quiet title to real estate bought with her $400 while engaged to Mr Bock. He purchased the Hayden Virden addition property in his name. they married, moved in, and he died before transfer. She sues the unknown heirs to establish ownership.
The Rock Island railway seeks a court ouster of George T B Miller and Son Co for occupying railroad property without a lease from the west side of Duryen Street North to the railroad right of way. The site was occupied after William Salloway Co left and a July 22 notice demanded vacating by August 23, but Miller and Son did not move.
In Hudson Fut Me in Stwdson Iowa Oct 17 special Lee and firemen attended a banquet at a cafe in honor of two lumber workers Octo and Dan Gut Brecht who served 10 years in the department and will now receive honorable discharge.
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