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SATURDAY, MARCH 14. 1925. (FEATURE SECTION).
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RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
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of B thing just so long," indicating length of, perhaps, four inches.
Then I introduced the subject of radio. My friend brightened in- stantly, "Ah!” ho exolaimod "Now you're talking, my boy. 6'posu you
Portland, Ore.--Congregated in|was elected secretary of state of hoard how I got Valparaiso the a little log school-house on the Idaho and it was more than six other'night on one valve? Came border of the Arotic Circle, the months before I received in uplondidly-bit of jamming now population of Pilot Station, lettor saying that he had boon and again from Honolulu, but Alaka, sharos tho bost musio, successful at the polls. This otherwise excellent." looturos and other forms of on-year I shall know whether ho
I wouldn't mind wagering that tertainment with frequenters of wine or losos just as soon as the in recent months a lot of Ushor- fashionable hotels and theatros roturns are in-all due to our in western oition. Young Eskimo radio.
mon have beaton their rode and
girls dance to the samo jazz We have been unable to pick lines into morials, their swivels music at the samo time as do the up stations east of the Rookies, and pator nosters-whatever they
the may be into loads.
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Tho handful of whites and Eski- mas comprising the population of this romote Yukon settlement gathor nightly in the schoolhouse to liston in. According to Miss Inoz Moore, solo tomchor at this primitive seat of learning main-|
RADIO REMARKS.
Recent Pronouncements by Leaders.
Some of tho tallost talon over told have been and are being told about wireless. The wireless f brand of tall talo in, I should way, at a rough guess, two thousand matros tollor than the tallest tall fishing tale-I; The day le fast approaching shall be getting jammed myself FACTORYtained by the Department of the when the practical range of this in a minuto-ovor told in a club Interior, tho little unscon sofence will ho onormously in-smoking-room. audionco makes up for its size in oroanod, and American stationa And talking of altitudo, I am onthusiasm and appreciation. will be hoard with clearness and reminded of the serious-or- The lottor which brought the regularity even during the day contratemps-a littlo bit of news of the schoolhouse radio and afternoons. It is also quite French won't do us any harm- entertainmenta
almost reasonable to expect that it will in which I was involved one day
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throo months in reaching soon be possible for a speech to last summer. F. A. D. Andrea, manufacturer of bo broadcast to the most distant the receiving sot which has parts of the world irrespective of
CHEERED BY RADIO.
There in cheer in this bloak sceno of the far north, for in this log cabin schoolhouse, bordoring the Arctic Circle, is a receiving set which brings in concerts from broadcast- ing stations along the Pacifio count. It is located at Pilot Station, Alaska, a post maintained by the U.S. Department · of Interior.
RADIO HELPS SOLVE MYSTERY.
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For two months the immigration authorities at Norfolk, Va., held a man whose nationality or language nono know. At last he broadcasted the sorios of grunts and squeals which passed with him for language. A young Finlander came forward and Identified the puzzle as a Finnish naturalist and writer named Oxekula, who spoke an obscuro Finnish dlaloct.
with the quary, "Have you a flat roof, please?"
I remember the day quite woll, because the summer that year fell on my birthday, and not on a Wednesday, an we are offloially informed. Tho Co-Optimists One manager tersely informed wore appearing at Edinburgh me that his establishment was and, hoing a radio fan-sbort for not a sanatorium, and that if fanatic. I presume-I thought I wanted to sleep out of doors, I would rig up my four-valve sat in had bettor try the park. my dressing room with the aerial on, in the usual way. So I climbed up aloft and, under a blazing sur, got the aerial into position.
Unfortunately, I didn't realize until I came to descond that I had also got myself in position: the sun had melted the tarred roof and-well, I was stuck.
FRIGHTENING THE CLERKS.
However, at an hotel in the Isle
WAB
of Man I found just the sort of roof I was looking for, and got permission to oroot an asrial, with the result that soon the lounge was filled with sweet muele from "ZY." Many of the visitors had not heard raido music before, and quito a crowd assembled. The episode was a splendid
During an interval in the pro- joke, of course, and there was gramme a rustic-looking person only one person in the kingdom came up and, drawing me aside, who didn't properly apreciate it, said, confidentially: "It's all That was 1.
right, o' chap; I rumbled you a conjurer from the start. You've got a gramophone inside that box. Now, now," he added, Anyone desirous of verifying playfully, as I protusted, "keep this story should apply to the your hair on It'e not a bad management of tho King's whooza at all. Hero's sixpence→ Theatre, Edinburgh, for permis- go and got a drink, just to show sion to scale the roof, where he thoro's no ill-feeling." for sho) will find a substantial But if it is true to say that in transformed life in this far north whether it is made during day pattern of the nother garments one way or another I have got community, Miss Moore writes: or night-Guglielmo Marconi, I was wearing at the time, to wit, more fun out of radio than out of How We ovor gos along famous Italian radio inventor. an extremely lond pair of plus any other hobby, it is almost without a radio in the past is a The true regulation of the fours still tapping idly, idly 'in equally true that I have found mystery. To-night wo bave power of a broadcasting station the breeze.
no other hobby more exasper- listened to the play. "Turn to should be based on the listener:
ating. the Right," given through KGO in on the ability of the listener to tell me. I earned among hotel example. Something really ought
On this particular tour, they
Take the question of Morse, for Oakland, Calif, and while I am discard the programme oflorod with this at my desk we are by the high-powered station and managers a reputation for being to be done about Morso. It's a getting the dance music from the select another programme in its
"slightly-er-well. recentric. bit off, just when you're in the St. Francia Hotel
don't YOU know." in San place.-L. A. Nixon. secretary that instead of
It soom middle of enjoying a Boothoven Francisco.
entering Radio Trade Association.
an sonats, to have it raspad at you "We heard the baseball scores i
hotel and asking the conven- that another cargo of oranges is The transoceanic radio tolo- oach day of the world's sorios and phone, now under development,
tional question "Have you & passing the Needles, or that the wo shall know the election returns bids us to expect, that before 100m, please? I developed the 8. S. Pride of Soven Dials has without waiting six months. Two many years it will be possible habit of frightening booking clerks sprang a look in hor bilgo pipe years ago my uncle, F. A. Joter, and convenient for any one of
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us to pick up his telephone. and in a short time be connected with his party in Europe, or with his staterooms, vo some liner on the ocean-General James G. Harbord, president, Radio Cor- poration of America.
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venture to predict that 10,000,000 now radio funs will be. added to the army of the listening public during the new year- Edward H. Jowett, radio man- ufacturer.
WIRELESS FICTION.
University Giving Lectures.
Now York: Columbia Univer- nity is sponsoring a lecture courso on contemporary English fiction, that is being broadcast wookly through station WEAF.
The lectures are given by Professor Dorothy Browstor and John A. Burrell. Both lecturers aro prominent literary critics, Thoy have boon tunching for several years in the English department of University Extons- ion at Columbia.
“MY AERIAL ADVENTURES."
Some Tall Tales, and Others.
Davy Burnaby, the populari Co-Optimist, writes in the Radio Times:
Have you noticed that since wireless became the fashion, there has beon a dearth of fishing storlos ?
I mot an old anglor friend of mine the other day who, when I asked him to toll me all about his latest catch, merely shrugged his shoulders and murmured something about- his having landed a wratobed little "tiddler.
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I notice that when a lécture on the theory of the Comio Impact, or the immunity of bootleggers from gollow jaundice, is going out, Morse mysteriously vanishos into nothingness, so that one
has no really reasonable excusa for downing the headphones or gagging the loudspeaker.
of
BROADCAST ON DISPLAY. The broadcasting studio station WJZ and WJY recently was moved down to the display windows of the Aoulian Building in New York, so that passersby may see how the thing works. "Broadcast Central." through which WJZ and WJY go out to the world, is stationed atop that building.
BIRDS' EQG NECKLACES
Necklaces made of birda' eggs are the latest novelty in the Paris- ian shops. The eggs are arranged for size and colour, much like a string of pearls. The contents are blown out through tiny kolos, and chemicals then blown in
strong. The space in the shell is which make the shells firm and
filled with a light cement and tho outsido is covered with a durable but transparont varnish. The oggs are atrung with a small wiro or cord drawn through the tiny holos, and the price for the finish- od novelty is extremely high.. Another war on bird lifel
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