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Occupational Ailment. In Saxonburg, Pa., Susan Stewart, 100, was chosen "oldest [doughnut] dunker in America" by the National Dunking Association, but had to turn down a trip to New York because of chronic indigestion...
Every Jerseyman is proud of Roebling's. John August Roebling was a bearded, philosophy-loving German engineer who led a group of his friends to the U.S. in 1831 to escape political and religious oppression. Once the farming community they established at Saxonburg, Pa. was a success, he went back to engineering, made America's first wire rope. Soon he adapted it to building suspension bridges. After he spanned the gorge of the Niagara River at Buffalo in 1850, he and his company were famous...
...short-wave broadcasting power is the 40 kw. of General Electric Co.'s station W2XAF at South Schenectady and Westinghouse's station W8XK at Saxonburg, Pa. But General Electric is building a 100 kw. transmitter to improve the service it sends on directional beam to South America. Germany lists its short-wave transmitter that operates from Berlin's Haus des Rundfunks at 40 kw. Great Britain's Daventry, with top power at 50 kw., sends its short-wave voice round the world. The Netherlands has two 60 kw. stations at Hilversum, which operate with unique beams...
Last week, as a tenth anniversary present for the first U. S. broadcasting station, the Allegheny County Commissioners recommended and the courts approved the name of KDKA Boulevard for a new county highway running from Pittsburgh to Saxonburg, where is KDKA's new transmission station...
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