Radio Schedule Summary from 1930s Broadcast Listings
Radio listings detail evening programming across WMAL WRC and allied stations. Highlights includePaul Muni as Bolivar in Cavalcade to the Liberator, The Monster in the Mansion thriller on WRC, and popular serials, news, music, and variety shows through midnight with Orson Welles, Guy Lombardo, and Edwin Hill among the featured performers.
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WRC
Paul Muni
Bolivar
WMAL
Carlton E. Morse
Rudy Valee
WISV
Musica
Edwin C. Hillarch McDonald
B’khage-Howa
Golden Treasury
Musicade
the World Today
Voxes Hour
Stone
Review
Man Clpper
News of World
Rhythmaires
Guy Lombardo
Noteworthy Chicken Case Ignores Odds in Big Island
In Big Island Virginia Mrs. E Manley killed a chicken and found seven .22 caliber cartridges in its gizzard. The item also notes a quiz on when William Jennings Bryan said his famous grave line and mentions Bryan’s 1920 convention stance on the dry plank.
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Big Island
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
M.J.D
Mr. Byran
Don Pickup Receives Cookies From Radio Appeal
Duke University freshman Don Pickup of Fall River Mass received 35 boxes of cookies after telling a radio audience he would get homesick for his mother's cookies. The treats arrived from New Hampshire to Georgia but he remains unsure any are as good as Mom's.
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Durham
N. C
Don Pickup
Fall River
Mass
Duke University
New Hampshire
Georgia
Don
High School Youth Dies Of Harts
Charles Powers, 16, a half back for William Fleming High School of Roanoke county, died in an Abingdon hospital after an automobile tragedy on Highway 11 near Old Glade Spring. Teammate Q. Reedy, 16, center of the Colonels, died in Abingdon hospital Saturday after the same crash returning from Bristol after a game with Virginia High School.
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Abingdon
Charles Powers
William Fleming High School
Roanoke County
Old Glade
William Reedy
The
Colonels
William Fleming
Roanoke
Virginia High School of
Bristol
Rainfall statistics from Winchester Research Laboratory
Present and past rainfall data cover 24 hours to today and year to date 21.35 inches. Historical monthly averages from 1913 to 1939 show monthly totals ranging from 2.05 inches in February to 3.77 inches in June. The record notes annual average rainfall at 35.80 inches over 28 years.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Fossil Swap Causes Paleontologist to Seek Restored Piece
Roy Roberts a quarry engineer at the state cement plant in Rapid City presented Princeton paleontologist Glen Jepsen with a fossil fish. Jepsen recognized a second half embedded in Minnkota limestone in Roberts home and requested its return. Roberts then replaced the higher quality stone with a less valuable chunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
Roy Roberts
State Cement Plant
Glen Jepsen
Princeton University
Jepsen
Roberts
Cost of land for Central Park in New York
The original land cost for Central Park was five million twenty eight thousand eight hundred forty four dollars. This figure represents the total price paid to acquire the land for the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Park
New York
D.J.R. A
Two Boys Work Parking Tax At Oklahoma City Game
Two enterprising youths waved sticks to direct 140 motorists at Red O stadium during a football game and collected ten cents per car as a parking fee. Drivers returning to their cars found a traffic ticket on their windshields marking a no parking zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
City
Redoe Stadium
Tot Out After 'Sis' MORBADGE
Mr and Mrs W F Thomas searched frantically for their son Gary aged 12 after he ran away from home to the depot to hunt for his sister Gladys who had left the day before for college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morbadge
W. F. Thomas
Gary
Gladys
Ride in a Paper Boat in Marie Blizard
Hallie Singleton recalls meeting Eric Adams six years earlier as they plan a Hollywood move from New York. Louise warns Hallie about money strain from the Depression, stressing Eric’s lack of work and Hallie’s reliance on others. Hallie resists facing Worburn and facing her father, with the story ending on a promise of continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Miami
Hallie Singleton
Eric Adams
Sheila Sherman
Eric
Hallie
Daddy
Sue
Louise
Toby
Darling
Worburn
Hartford
Lou
Hartfords
Worburn Bank
Halit
Mater
Hollywood
Rae le Nut
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Chic Young
Blondie
U. S
Patent Office
Dagwood
Dagwoop
SIG Sister
Beth
By Les Forgrave
Make & Fortune
DJI
Thimble Theater
Popeye
Avitcha
Etta Kett
Stap
BY Paul Robinson
Old Man River
Secret Age
G-Man
Robert Storm
Gliss
Clipper
States
Inspector
S the
Muggs
and Skeeter
Skeeter
Maan
BY Wally Bishop
SHE Moose Trust & Savings Bank
Lowell Thomas
Fred Waring
Dr. IQ
America
That Brewster
Merica
Radio Plaint
Cookie Cure
Harts
Karakul
Tot
Whitman
Baker’s Drug Store
Court House
Moling & Cather
Mberlake
Marie Blizard
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