Word: bournemouth
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...citizen of Bournemouth, England, went to Cardiff on a business trip, had a heart seizure. Immediately he telephoned to his Bournemouth doctor. Then he marched to a Cardiff radio station, arranged to have his heart beats broadcast during the interval of a morning program. The Bournemouth physician listened in, telephoned treatment...
...first organized attempt at broadcasting programs from England to the U. S. last week was only a partial success, apparently because of atmospheric interference. Eight high-powered British stations (at London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen) were linked up by telephone into a "super-radio" system having a maximum energy of twelve kilowatts, operated from the Hotel Savoy, London, A program of band music and a speech by Senator Guglielmo Marconi was broadcasted. But very few Americans, amateurs or professionals, were able to receive the English program at all, and of the scattered...
...Mich.) station. The English radio waves were amplified by Eastern commercial stations and redistributed to American amateurs. The Postal Telegraph Co. cabled to England the names of all American stations which caught the British programs. The notes of a piano playing in Newcastle and faint " Hello America " signals from Bournemouth were received by several stations. An amateur in Hull, England, picked up a service from St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, broadcasted from Aeolian Hall...
...proof sheets of "Underwoods" Stevenson sent to Miss Adelaide Boodle, a woman whom he had always termed throughout his life "game-keeper," for the reason that she lived on his country estate at Bournemouth and acted as its care-taker...