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HE SUNDAY' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FEBRUARY 14, 1926—PART 1. 3 1 1r L d s to b sid l I ! the national | Kansas ranking next with 13,189 sets. | [ RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS S taa frequently T ermit the Reproducing |Department reported tHat approxi | , Rights Association to issue 1.censes |mately 000" farmers owned radio | Proving Chwr of ]“dqor spmz, No Wave Length Yet Assigned iilable from | this session, 1t is reported. No fees |sets in all § which figure repre i The Listeners' League the secretar Merehants: Bank | are mentioned, which, it s pointed | sents a little over § per cent of ti Among Citizens. New Broadcaster. injthe BasC thic the port stenon : .| Building, Indianapolis, 1 P > handicaps of the |total of 6,372,263 farms in the 48| B e ; gl HDDI. |br rclockc caeh night, | Tro Netlowal Bragcast Listohers § S Pitingse a expetionced n the United | States. Radio comes Into its own as king| A new Cuban station of 500 watts |eneaten Abasion e |t ganized last Summer, with Canadian Stations Organize. States. where license fees vary| The figures check pretty well, evi- [of indoor sports in Rumania, where |r\r-\\'w‘ is now it fon under the { seriously with some of the finest en- | headqus n Indianapolis, “a nol an: adeasting stations have [ Ereatly. dently indicating that there is a gr a rule, the citizens da not care for | call let t every Tuesday and = tertainment _offered the air, are | Profit organizat xpanding into | jus 2 broadeast. adlo 5 ‘v—-- . market for radio receivers € | outdoor sports. but prefer to consre- |’ : according to reports met Weather i and the |a nation-wide assoclation, the chief |ing s : adio Sets on Farms. farmes e e o xe No. 11 in WRC Contest, a|(x. spartment with. two answers. |aim of which seems to be to improve | teners and boost Canada With the tendency of many s gl miiin L e A asslgmed First. that NAA broadeasts on an (reception conditions by the elimination | s S including “anadian | a 5 ar o broudcast mor i v e et ices st iven permis exclusive so that most sets|of interference. ': S, a8 we reports that cticaly. sl farmers information hesides t Although there is no local hroad s BrlStOI Va., Music Maker, !\hmlH be : o tune it out if the| Through th 3 f i s sws- |are now listening in. According to a |of ]fn':ll-r"n""‘ {'!H“\"“ Beiiaey ting, cit e 2 until a wave that Awa ded Ch < gh- mat is mot desived; second,|local assoc E & s ipe) 3 8 reses .| survey by the Census Bureau in °0 "x:ll"r“l(‘]!" ”l(“”'*‘" ‘,n yhll';"”m “Tu herate r ers, resulting in a grow- \:nh n|h:r Ir\l‘.:m.« 3 ! e ers s pic g ers | T 5 Y States, » there 1.853.,869 | interest e 3 t i # " ae d trom the letters ca:LHampionship. e e : f reduct ierfe : at oporieht Staten, . Where, oneie oS ool ol contthire ito increase ing interest in radio. Licenses for | re ners n of considerable impor- | 3 roadc: SA s. paying | radio receiving sets, or a trifle less = . | twotube sets cost less than a dollar | . — of T { : 1o them and not available prior S e sh o standard » use, Js said been the | than 6 per cent. The census of the| At the age of 104 years Miss Eliza- [a year. and for multituhe receiy A Anna Nicholson Hird is dis tito of ct {0 that time jappr cE i 5 d * orzanization of | whole 48 States is not vet completed, | beth Underwood Lisle ms o bl but little more. This Tat vpe is «d as the only woman mem Middle Athntic,| The W, - w1 points ont |Casting stations, whose pre v Assoclation "of Broad-|but. out of the 20 listed, Hiinois | the oldest Bngiish Roman Catholic in | now required to Trinz in the' 13 5 rican. Anstitite’ W e Middle ° nd enjoyed. X - makes the best showing, reporting |the world. stations ing the vote pol m o \hich the : s in brief data a station s inadian Parliament will con-' 27,434 farms equipped w dio sets, incoznito ¢ . led his ne \vn ot copapilen i the fotm: of est opponent, . Sullivan casts until about 935 pm. To Calverton, Va., by : arrange the schedule of takinz ob-{ votes. Samuel H. 7] a o- | servations throughout the wntry | nowned fiddler of the «{would cost approximately $130.000, | of Marvland, was a close | necessitate new trafic schedule The contest. which was | with the telegraph companies and ve- | S el conducted here in years attrs quire some West Coast even dozen of the old-time music | start their daily work makers of Virginia, M 1 and | 2:30 am., at which tin the District, who o e Service v e avails ] s eir 3 bureau of N 2 1 tor listeners to WRC. The|that 10 p.m. is | 3 | 1 S were ted by number|and only time the 4 than by ind the award | can he broadeast, putting © ® 0’ S| e e A RTINS < 2 title was t to the listen- | of the problem up to the ers to decide stations interfered with Uncle Am’s” two selections which | Another suggestion is that as the \:'nnllmn the championship were “The | wenther rep ake but a few min- ocking Bird” and tlelter [ utes and follow the time siznals each N l : Gie other | nishe: S ations with which | eutrola o i £ e championship might . t event were N. B. Chisholm and J. H. | pane ”..,. scheduled for m S k ) )¢ Charlottesville, Va.: f,.,,, 5 time the R l n dtoc rt . Nethken of Brent- l wouod Md D. E. Woodyard of . Heflin of Mount lda. Va 2 reports a Tood. eaddy D- B Woodyard of | nicht often enab > prote _ Famous. for Quality and Reception J. 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