American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-03-31
WIRELESS CRAZE HITS CITY
NUMEROUS SENDING STATIONS
WILL MAKE POPULAR HOTEL
HEADQUARTERS FOR INFORMA-
TION AND AMUSEMENT.
WHITNEY GOOD BOOSTER
Manager Elated Over Prospect Thor
Oughly InOculated With Virus-Anx-
iOus to Install Apparatus and Join
Long List of Radio Fans.

The wireless craze has descended
upon American Falls. H. D. Whitney
manager of the Hotel Remington, an
nounces this week that within two
months he expects to have a radio
phone receiving set with a magma
box located in the hotel lobby where
friends and people interested in the
latest wonder of the world, may sit
comfortably and hear concerts, base
ball scores, bits of news and import
ant speeches transmitted to them via
the wireless telephone.
This station, with its antenna ex-
tending well above the trees surround
ing the hotel will record, hour by hour,
the news of the world from stations as
far away as Los Angeles, Denver, Salt
Lake City, Spokane, Portland and
Seattle. In these cities will be won
derful concerts by celebrated artists,
the newest records reproduced on great
specially built monographs, and the
great rich tones of the finest pipe or
gans on the Pacific Coast will be car
ried <un radio waves to the people of
American Falls. BY this modern day
miracle, desert homes on the fringe of
the lavas can equip themselves at
moderate cost to receive all the news
and entertainment of the day. Prob
ably within a year there will be fifty
or sixty receiving sets in use in Power
County. The world will not move less
swiftly in the isolated hamlets of the
west than it does in the crowded me-
| tropolis of the east.
Tuning Up With Denver.
The radiophone will prove an anti
toxine for the village virus How
pleasant it will be to cease the days
labor turn ON the radio phone and
hear the days debate in congress over
1.-THE latest maneuver of the farm bloc. "
Or tune up with Denver and hear
George G. Jewett tell the graingrowers
of the United States the latest develop
ments in cooperative marketing. Or
listen in while the Los Angeles Times
gives the Verbatum testimony in the
Taylor murder mystery.
II Radio, it would seem is to take much
of the dullness out of the home. Wives
will be enabled to go about their
house work and at the same time keep
up with the news of the day, and hear
music by the worlds geratest artists
The possibilities of radio are just
beginning to be realized. Passengers al
sea, though the radio telephone are
4 enabled to ring up their friends five
hundred miles away an land. We will
soon be able to telephone from street
, car. The Pennsylvania railroad an
nounces that it will son have radio
phone equipment installed on it's pas
: senger trains. There seems to be nC
) limit to the utility of this new inven
= ton.
5 First Cost Lew.
v Receiving sets can be purchased fol
!. prices as low as fifteen dollars. Thes,
however do not include the magma boz
that amplifies the sound waves as doe
q phonograph. For a sum averaging
between $25 and $50 the average per
e son can set up set capable on fur
nishing unlimited entertainment.
Mr.. Whitney is negotiating now 70
the equipment and plans to have
installed by Faa Brown when the lat
n ter returns for the summer from Stan
I ford University where he is specialize
e ing in radiophony, The details ar
o rather simple to an experienced ma
i but foreign to the average laymaI
e Mr. Brown has long operated a wire
less set in American Falls and is thor
n oughly qualified for the work.
e Exhibition of Enterprise.
+ Mr.. Whitney is exhibiting an enter
y prise possessed by few men in eitie
S the size of American Falls. The rae
It iophone when installed will be ope
e largely to the public. 1t will inyolv
i the expenditure of several hundre
e dollars and will require expert assis
II tance in the primary stages 70 opera
) ton. When it is installed, America
y Falls will be one of the few cities
1t southern Idaho in touch with the ou
side world via radiophone. The raC
'e 10 craze hit the right man when
ID tackled Mr.. Whitney