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New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
Nhims of Buyers Shown
 At Antique Sales

New Orleans. May ! lPl-It may have been the rain dampening the ordor of buyers but at an auction Of antiques here q Bubl table, de- clared by the aucuoneer to have heen the property of Madame dc Fompadour, went under the ham, mer for $9n. The auctioneer added that the authenticity Of the table had not been questioned since 1TG4.
 The sun was out when the jew elry in the collection was offered and an English watch, a. tiny watch set in a mans gold ring, brought S1G6. An inscription in inc faded cover of the box told how Preyal, the watchmaker had mado it expressly for King George, the Third"
New Britain herald., 1926-05-07
MOST STUPEND0US EVENT EVER HELD
 IN NEW BRITAIN
No Red Tape No Delay A Year To Pay

No strings this wonderful offer. Every Lamp packed that is carry home and will be given you just as you pay the small deposit of 5Oc Only limited number hand Sale starts Saturday. Come earIv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-26

Compiled By United Press)
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2s
Fridays Best Features

WEBH-WEBH Light Opers Co.
WEAR-Opera, Faust
kFKX-Nebr. Press Assn. program.
WEAF HOOK-UP-Anglo- Persians.
kGW-Hoot Owls.
WBZ-Bowdoin College concert
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Only One Eighth of Homes
In America Have Radio Sets
Business in 1926 to Reach Total Of
from 500, ooo, 900 to $500, ZOO, 900,
IT'S Predicted

from 500, ooo, 900 to $500, 900, ooo
IT'S Predicted
The radio dealer who thinks that
he has sold to all the prospects in his
community has another think coming.
Only one-eighth of the homes In
this country have yet been equipped
with receiving sets and seven-eighths
remain to be sold even on an initial
basis-which, far from removing them
from the market as buyers, only as
sures further purchasing by them in
this line.
An electrifying view of the field
still to be covered is presented when
one realizes that less than 100000 900
out of 110,000.000 people in this coun-
| try have been supplied even partially
| with radio sets. while 100000 con-
stitute live prospects whom the mag
| Eetic attraction of free broadcast en-
tertainment and instruction is fast
| drawing into the army of radio enthu-
siastS.
In view of the fact that half of the
homes in the United States have au-
tomobiles, which cost far more than
radio sets, there Is only one conclu-
SIOu " uIdW-lHdI IlO dpptdl
has yet been made by radio statesmen
to those not yet supplied with radio
equipment.
The registration of automobiles in
this country for last year was the
number of radio receiving sets now
in the hands of the public. Yet there
are many thousands who can afford a
, radio set who cannot afford an auto
mobile. Virtually every one can buy
some kind of radio receiver.
1t is only now that the radio dis
t-ibutors throughout the country are
waking up to the needs of the farmer
on the score of radio and realizing
that, with fully 80 per cent Of the
farmers still unsold, the farm trade
is something that has been singularly
overlooked. Almost three million
farms are thus waiting to be sold and
the radio distributor who is on his
job will not keep them waiting much
longer.
And so it is in almost every other
branch of the radio market. The sur
face has been only scratched to date
Seven-eighths of the job of selling the
country is still ahead of the manufac-
turer and distributor. 1t should not
be difficult to accomplish this with
every prospect in the land already
more than half sold. OF course, it
cannot be done entirely in a few
months. 1t will require many years
more to install radio set in every
home-which makes each home q
perpetual buyer of sets. parts and ac-
cessories. But this merely furnishes
additional proof Of the statement.
made by Radio Guide a year and
half ago and reiterated at frequent
intervals since then that the point of
saturation in the radio industry can
never be reached.
How great an industry is radioc
1t now ranks as 18th in the stand
ing of manufacturing industries in the
United States.
From a mere 100000 industry
five years ago, radio reached Saith
place three years ago, and is steadily
and surely reaching for the very top
In 1925, according to best conserva-
tive estimates, total sales volume
was half billion dollars in round
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than in the daytime. and in winter
than In in summer. The amount of
static disturbance varies greatly from
day to day and is worst in the
summer months. During the years
1920 and 1921, the American Radio
Relay League, in cooperation with
the Bureau Of Standards, conducted
an extensive series Of investigations
in which amateurs used their receiv-
ing sets to determine the audibility
of signals under various weather
conditions. They found that stronger
signals were obtained when the ra-
dio waves from transmitter to re-
ceiver passed parallel to the isobars
than when they move at right angles
to them.
"An isobar Is an imaginary line
connecting or marking places on the
earth's surface where the barometric
height, reduced to the sea level, is
the same at q given time for a
certain period. 1t was found that
stormy weather at the transmitting
station does not affect the range
or strength of the signals and that
an area Of clear weather connecting
both stations results in less fading.
Cloudy weather at the receiving
station resulted in much more static
than did clear weather. Our British
cousins have recently completed a
similar investigation and report con-
illusions in general agreement with
those already given. They also
found that the nature of the earth's
surface in given region Influenced
the strength Of signals, water and
mineral deposits being more favor
able to good reception than sandy
soil and rock. They futher maintain
. that some signal variations at
tributed to fading are in reality
caused by the antenna swinging in
the wind and throwing the receiver
out of tune.
Continuing this interesting article
Mr.. Jensen reports that early in 1924
DR.. G. w. Pickard published an
article on signal fading which pre-
Sented the first satisfactory method
by which the actual signal strength
, of radio carrier waves may be re-
corded.
The curves obtained with his
apparatus show rapid Quotations in
the carrier wave, the time between
peaks, and the amount Of change
varing from night to night. The
same type Of apparatus was used
by Doctor Pickard and others in OBJ
tanning data concerning the effects
of the eclipse of last January on
radio signals.
zone of the most interesting and
,, widely discussed articles dealing with
radio and the weather was that OF
Professor Van Cleef in Radio Broad
cast for May, 1926" says Mr.. Jen-
sen. This writer combined the OBJ
servations of the lay observer of
radio programs with the technical
training in weather lore of the Gil
matologist, and claims to have found
a number of specific relationships
between radio reception and weather
conditions. The most important of
these are that strong signals occur
when transmission is at right angles
TO the isobars, or lines joining points
of equal barometric pressure; signals
are weaker. and fading is worse
when radio waves pass parallel to
the isobars, and reception is weaker
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-26

when transmission crosses from one
pressure area to another.
1.-THE most accurate and extensive
records of signal strengths yet made
are those by Mr.. NJ. p. Bruning. a
graduate student in the radio labora-
tory at Nebraska Wesleyan Univer-
sity, three years ago. The audibility
of the time signals from NAA, to-
gether with that Of static, was
measured daily over a period of
several months. A local oscillator
gave a standard tone whose inten-
sity could be measured by, means
of q thermocouple and a galvano-
meter. This tone was then used
to measure the sensitivity Of the
ear Of the observer and to standard
ize the adjustments Of the receiving
set. A simple vacuum tube receiver
with the necessary volunteers anG
ammeters to check on batteries and
filament current in an audibility
meter completed the outfit" Curves
accompanying Mr.. Jensen's article in
Radio Broadcast show the remark
able variation in signal intensity
from night to night. The static
also shown graphically.
Mduy ACWSPdpC1S CT plCSCiiI
produce the daily weather map, SO
that If there is any simple relation
between the directions Of the isobars
and radio receiving conditions, few
moments study of the map should
be sufficient for determining the
radio probabilities for the evening
These weather maps may be obtained
from the nearest weather Bureau
office in cases where the local news
paper does not publish them. The
general conclusion arrived at in Mr.
Jensen's article are as follows:
l. Signal strength will be greatest
with settled weather conditions and
transmission parallel with the iso-
bars.
p. Good reception may also occur
at right angles to the isobars unless
a storm center intervenes between
sending and receiving stations.
3. Static is most noticeable as q
storm area approaches. the crashing
noises being audible for severa
hundred miles; and the kissing
noises prevailing only in the i'm
mediate vicinity of a low"
4. Fading is much less troublesome
in daylight than at night.
| 5. Fading is much more noticeable
in unsettled weather than when
transmission is parallel with the
isobars along the ridge of a high"
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OUTLINES METHOD OF FORECAST
RADIO RECEPTION CONDITIONS
Can Tell When Static Is Coming, Says Expert

Weather conditions during the
recently concluded International Ra-
dio Broadcast Tests were not what
could be described as ideal. Had 1t
been possible to foretell what sort
Of radio weather was in store for
that week, sometime beforehand OF
Of course, many disappointments
would have been averted. AS the
program had to be arranged many
weeks in advance of the Tests, 1t
was not possible to take into con-
sideration weather conditions. Some
fans are not AWAKE that the fore
casting of radio conditions from the
weather is feasible to certain ex-
tent, however. An absorbing article
on this subject appears in the March
Radio Broadcast magazine, and is
from the pen Of J. G. Jensen. of
Nebraska Wesleyan University, an
expert on matters meteorological.
Attempts to explain the varia-
tons in radio receiving conditions
have been made constantly since the
very beginnings Of wireless trans
mission" he writes, but the ire
mendous increase in the number OF
persons owning receiving apparatus
since the advent Of broadcasting
has resulted in much more general
interest in all problems effecting
clearness and regularity of recep-
ton. Space will permit the mention
of only few of The most important
Of these experiments here.
"Dr. L. w. Austin OF the United
States Bureau of Standards has
been engaged for several years In
recording the signal strength OF
high-power, long-wave commercial
stations, such as Nauen in Germany,
and Lafayette in France. His re-
ports show that transmitting con-
ditions are more favorable at night
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Radio Car to Tour
European Frontiers

Geneva, Feb. 26-Under construc-
ton for the League Of Nations is a
radio-equipped Pullman car Of latest
design, to be run with the express
trains of Europe or as special" in
the event of emergency. This car will
carry representatives of the League
to war-threatened or disease-strcken
borders.
The League is hopeful of receiving
messages direct from their representa-
tives through the transmitting appa-
ratus on the car and to send orders
suggestions and news to be handled
through its receiving equipment.
The building of the car and its sub
sequent operation. writes Eric Palmer
to the Freed Eisemann Radio Corpora
ton, New York, are in charge of Col
Thomas Hyams, chief of the Trans.
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make an astounding success with
radio audiences. The most potent
idea suggested by the above letter,
we think, is that all aspiring radio
playwrights be required to read and
assimilate in their entirety each and
every one of Mr.. Shakespeare's
dramas.
"For the radio play has, to date,
proved to be an utter and complete
washout. OF the many we have
heard we know Of no one we could
call a complete success. Several
were fair. The large majority were
terrible. Once We thought we had a
good one: 1t had held us breathless
spellbound, and so forth. for fully
ten minutes-but just then a shoot
ing occurred. and we spent the rest
of the play trying to figure out who
in thunder had been killed.
Nov if recollection Immediately
rushes to your mind of some radio
play which you heard and thought
! was WOW, we plead guilty to an &C.
casional absence from the loud
speaker, and protest that there must
have been one we slipped up on.
Dwelling upon those we have heard,
we are unable to decide whether. as
otu iNSi d6C, Tic plays VI tlC oCIOA .
were worst. We're inclined to hand
the palm to the latter.
But in fairness to the radio
Yhespians. it should be observed that
theirs is a more difficult task than
that of their brethren on the visible
boards. The stage actor is assisted
by props, costume. action. gesture,
and makeup. If all these accessories
are of high standard his cerebral and
| vocal deficiencies may be partly
overlooked or at least not seem quite
so glaring. Not so of the radio actor.
His ability to put over his part is
| exclusively dependent upon his
ability correctly to understand anu
interpret his lines. and upon his
natural vocal endowment. We ad-
vance this point, not because we
| think it to be an obscure one. in the
ferreting out of which we have eX-
hibited great acumen, but because.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-26

, numbers. Some estimates are below,
and more above this amount.
In 1925 radio will cross the half
billion mark, and should reach vol
ume for the year between 500, 900, 900
and $S00,000,000. The total may even
reach the billion dollar mark.
Radio is now stabilized as never be-
fore. Weak sisters have been eliminat-
ed. The track Is clear ahead, the field
Of sales is ever broadening and the
experience of the past five years has
equipped all in the industry with a
knowledge that good, hard, intelligent
effort, and well-built, honest products
at fair prices, will bring merited sue
cess, and volume of business beyond
even the most sanguine expectations
Of today.-Radio Guide
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Dear Gosh, care of K. ].
Why shouldn't junk my SIX burner
squealadyne?
Y. KNOTT
Why, Knott, there's the (de-
alcoholized) rub! Most of the free ad-
vice in the curriculum indicates Eyes"
in seven languages. including the
Scandinavian. But yours drooly
hastens to vote NO on all questions
before the bungalow. There's hope.
yea, and couple of verily's. None
other than the dispenser of misin-
formation on the queries in this
column has under consideration a
correspondence course for the de-
velopment of new musical instru-
ment, requiring great skill, but teach
ing the desperate dial disturbers how
to play the squeals as musical notes.
Thus the squealasquawk will rival the
Wantabuilder Pipe Organ. the All
Whitemen Orchestra, and the Unseen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-26

obvious as 1t is, 1t does not seem to
have occurred to radio play producers.
Their radio players are made up, for
the most part, of second rate hams
who would in no wise add to the
glory of third rate stock company.
"As matter of fact, nothing short
of an all-star cast culled from the
headliners of the legitimate stage
would be able to put across a flaw
less radio play, so difficult is the
chore. Such a cast we may not ex-
pect; but at least we may ask the
station directors to come a little
closer to 1t. High school dramatics
may be endured while we are watt
ing for little Oswald to go up for his
diploma, but they are likely to be
tuned-out when they come via
radio"
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Band, not to mention the leu.
wait with patience and saw asl
dough, Knott. ~
Dear Gosh:
I've got one of those Dc r..
reflective sets 1t don't work and
neighbor told me / needed a -
whisker. We have a large Man
coon Tom cat, he is pretty "a
hasn't many whiskers left bnt ~ snt
think one of them would he an ~ 70 y
or do you have to get them from rnsa
blackcat? 'O'n
p. s. Does it make any dIffsrs.
whether it's a male or femaIa a s1e'
Why not try it and find ont, '''
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Loose Connections
bv Gosh
by Gosh

Dear Gosh, care of K. ].
Why shouldn't junk my SIX burner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-26

{Stations arranged In order OF wA-eiengtn
Al ti I;as schedule y; s p M except that time
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WCSH, Portland, 25e

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2s
11.57 A. NJ. Washington time a.,
1900 NJ. Weather report; earI y s s..s
market. sstef
1920 p. NJ. Noontime Lenten so,,..
First Baptist church of portlss:
Maine, Rev. William s. Iseaaes
minister: VocalHsolos: uresn. y
dress, Rev. A. C. Goddard n.s y
Chestnut Street Methodist eb.,os
Portland Maine.
LOO 7. NJ. Fifty farm flashes, 'Dairsl
9.45-43O p. NJ. Selections from ST..
Theatre, Arthur r. Kendall dirseiI
ing.
500 p. NJ Farm News Digest
els =. NJ. Weather report
GO p. NJ. Stock market; grain ma
$50 P. NJ. Children's period.
100000 p. NJ. Dance music. WsliI
Carlton and his orchestra
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portation Section of the League of
Nations.
1t is predicted by officials OF the
League that this car will figure very
largely in the history of the next de-
cade or two.
In the past the Leagues experts have
had to rely on inadequate sleeping car
service In hurried trips and their
communications with headquarters
have been hampered and attended,
generally, by delays and premature
publicity.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-10
INVISIBLE DRA.H4

a new arr in rich world clamOrous for artistic
enjoyment Is big thing. Radio claims have diScoE-
cred ana Is a0orng to perfect Il II Is radio
drama.
he reader may say al once that he has tried list
enng TO radio plays, and found nothing IN them But
that's Just the point. Early experiments showed IhaJ
ordinary drama and ordinary dramatic methods would
not go over the radio 4 technlc was needed.
The General Electric station hGO, in san Francisco,
has therefore done lot Of experimenting, with fruit
,fu results.
A radio play, Director Rhodehamel finds, must
be "a series OF sound pictures, appealing TO audi
tence of 'eavesdroppers listening in real life,
That is the play has to be made to seem real through
realistic sound.
The sound pictures are divided into speech,
c and accessory noises which Tor the part must
be kept separate for the sake OF cearness Plays and
acts be long. The radio audience il is found,
will listen for than 80 minutes at a time. SO
the longest play made in three acts OF 35 minutes
each
Shakespeare, incidentally is found to be the best
radio dramatist among classic payWrghts New
authors are being sought mainly among amateurs.
The actors to be sharply differentiated in
voice, character and speech, TO make them distinguish
able by the alone.
The realism of accessory sounds goes beyond any
thing tried in Jazz oTcheStras BelascO plays
Revealing sounds used pictures in film
dramas Well done, the inarticulate noises alone al
most tell the story. Ingenious methods used to
produce them. Thus
"KGO has magnifed the sound OF q buzzing insect
to obtain the OF wild animal; breaking Of tooth
picks to picture trees falling in forest breathing
through lamp chimney to provide terrifying wind
storm and talk into barrel get the sound of voices
IN cave or tomb; sWiShng a rag around in a mop
pail resulting in a realistic impression Of storm at
sea, with waves striking the side Of a boat"
Here evidently, IS going to be fascinating form
OF entertainment for the radio fans Of the future, to
while away the long winter evenings.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-10
"G4G RULE" IN THE SENATE

Cloture-the closing of debate by tWo-thlrds vote
is dreadful thing, according to senator Blease OF
South Carolina.
.If the gag rule is applied in the Senate he de-
clared the other day, clOtuTe was proposed as
the only way to the " Orld Court, tine
day going TO come when instead OF the Senate oelg
great open forum, IL will become Ike some other
legislative bodies the only consideration given
measures is III committee.
ii these states want now TO put q gag on me
and those standing with n TINS great battle, III
which believe TIgh, you may nave the power
out you Will set preceoenC that Will Dreak
down the who're principle of debate IN this Senate.
The public is inclined think that Senate debate
ought broken down. his was supposed 20 nave
been accomplished when the clotuTe rule was IrSt
authorized d necessary recourse III emergencies.
hat the Senate most Is to stop beng an
open forum start being legislative BODY. IL
VIII never purpose intended by the ConStu-
tion regard Legislation as more M
pOrtant than oratOry, work more important than
individual Whm, the OF the ma orlty more import
ant than the OF the minority.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-10

had to be done
Uncle Wiggiy brushed of the
snow from BUutv'S dress and Aupped
along with her but pretty soon she
fell down again and had to be pick
81 up "Areu ! l funny, Uukie
Wig She laughed.
You are funny. YES. Buntv. but
! shall never find an adventure or
get any flowers if | have to keep
picking Yea up all the while. And
thea Bunty fell again, in some deep
snow. But this time she scrambled
up al by herself And 70, she did
50. her paws Seraped away some
snow from the ground.
"Oh. look, Green leayes,' cried
Bauty. And some Iirtie punk buds.
Here : Snow flowers. URkie Wig.
And, surely enough. growing in a
bed ot leaves beneath the snow were
some very early flowers called Ar
butas. Never before had Uncle Wig
-ilv known it 10 he ont 50 soon,
though il IS often found beneath the
SHOWS Of spring.
"Oh. Bmty. you lirtIe darling!
Bless you for falling!" cried Uncle
Wiggily. He and the little orphan
rabbit scraped away more snow,
and picked MANY Of the Tiny buds.
And when the Arburus was placed
in water i'm the warm bungalow,
beautiful pink and white flowers
blosSomci forth. filing the air with
perfume.
= Now, my pain is all gone, -
said Mrs. Longcar,. II knew YOU
would find some flowers, Wigev.'
1T was Bunty who found them,
said the rabbit gentleman. And
now if the rubber boot doesn't creep
up stairs and pun the shoe lace out
Of the football, III tell you next
about Uncle Wisgily and the ugly
stump.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-02-10
PRAYER MARATHON
WILL Be STARTED
IN COAST TEMPLE

SAN DIEGO, ca. Feb. 10. =
= Pray vc Without ctasjug.
This >.riptural commaudt SSH b,
/; ken literally by ne gospel tabel
Aaclc q SAN Diego which tbs wee;
will start = PRAYER mutation.
the OF the most unusual feature,
ever connected with Il local church
In an upper room Of it> Heo
teW.ple ;Nvo members ylN start theiU
>uppiicatIous. Thereafter prayers
viii rise continuously new H,rshiP-
per> relieving the others houriv.
According 10 !. :. 'ouueil
pastor, the PRAYER ., to last iudefi-
n;,,lv in m mbrokeu chain. Hop
la- been expressed that it VII con
tiaue through long era Of year,
iihe the undyiug fire, Il ccrtaIa
European monastric>.
Two Sersons will he pat on duty
-. all times 81 That il one is taken
I'll or otherwise interrupted the
Chain viii not be- broken,