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...advertiser who did not want to pay the full cost of chain broadcasts, but wanted to reach the New York and Chicago market areas, approached officials of WOR, the Bamberger Department Store's station, asked if they could arrange for a program on both WOR and WGN, radio outlet of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The advertiser proposed to pay only the station rate of each. This meant that the stations would have to absorb the wire charges for carrying the program between the two cities. They...
Soon after M. B. S. was organized, an advertiser wanted WLW as a Cincinnati outlet for his program in addition to VOR and WGN. Operated by Powel Crosley Jr., who makes radios and controls the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, WLW is the most powerful radio station in the U. S. (500,000 watts). It soon became a cooperating member of the Mutual net work. On June 1, 1935 M. B. S. began trading sustaining programs with the Canadian Radio Commission, and in September added CKLW (Windsor, Ont.) to the network. Canadian programs gave U. S. listeners variety and CKLW gave...
Last week, until Lucio was buried, Simplicio showed no bad effects of a second, plastic operation which gave him a rectal outlet of his own. Then his vitality wavered. Doctors gave him a blood transfusion. Next thing the doctors knew was that Simplicio had a full-fledged attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, a germ disease apparently unrelated to any symptoms which the doctors had heretofore noticed in either of the Siamese twins, before or after they were separated. Of that cerebrospinal meningitis, Simplicio Godino, only adult ever severed from his twin, last week died...
...efficient cornhusking machine are Carl, Elmer and two other Carlson brothers, who will be favorites in future cornhusking championships. Hauled onto a platform last week to get his $100 prize money, Carl Carlson was so excited that he mistook the loudspeaker microphone for a radio outlet. Said he to the 160,000 spectators at Oyler's farm: "Hello everybody back there in Audubon County, I'm glad I could win. ... I was going pretty strong and believe I could have even given my brother Elmer a good beating...
...rule bears an unfortunate resemblance to a mosquito. It is not a large animal, but after being irritated for a sufficient length of time, the tormented soul would cheerfully attack a lion with his bare hands to provide an outlet for his spleen. The rule, of course, works especial hardship upon the students rooming alone, but its nuisance value is appreciated even by men with several roommates...