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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Otlice at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. NOV. 4. 1922
A. J. Downer, Radio
Expert at Fairbanks,
Tells of Broadcasting
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur.!. Downer, the
radio broadcasting: experts who are in
stalling ann will conduct the Northern
Commercial Company’s plant, which
will broadcast first of all machines in
Alaska, called on os Saturday night
and, in the enthusiasm of their work
here, where it has the greatest cf pos
sibilities, spoke substantially as fol
lows:
“The manner in which ‘radio’ has
been taken up by the American public
lie at large is almost incredible.
“In March, 1922, Secretary Hoover
of the U. S. Department of Commerce
stated that although only 50,000 radio
transmitters and receivers were in use
in the United States the year before it
was reasonable to place the current
number at 600,000 outfits.
“Instruments suitable for listening
to the broadcasting entertainments are
being manufactured aod sold at a total
rate which is reasonably estimated to
be in excess of 100,000 sets per month.
This productioti, although large, is not
large enough to supply the demand for
real equipment.
“Radiophone broadcasting stations
are being installed in all the leading
cities of the country. The best known
of these plants operate on daily sched
ules. Most of the stations have a nor
mal range of several hundred miles
and are heard thousands of miles under
favorable conditions; consequently
there is no place in the country where
radiopnone broadcasting may not be
heard at times and even frequently.
The number of places where a good re
ceiver will be unable to bring in night
ly concerts is rapidly decreasing to the
vanishing point, if, indeed any such
place remains today. Broadcasting is
nearly, if not quite, a national utility.
“In the radiotelephone we have an
PROFESSIONAL
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Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
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Practice in all Courts.
instrument whose potentialities are
amazing. Already it brings amusement
and cheer to the hospitals, cnurch ser
vices to the home-bouud, and enter
tainment and news to the isolated.
“From the radiophone those who de
sire recreation can secure an endless
variety of an ever renewed library or
phonograph records, yet they are
spared any expense beyond tha initial
cost of their receiving sets.
“In addition, there is provided vocal
and instrumental music, concert and
dance programs by local artists, lec
tures, health talks, sermons, stock mar
ket bulletins, crop reports, etc., a va
riety which contains something to suit
every taste.
“Radio on the ocean forced its way
into popular imagination when the first
call of distress was received from aj
sinking ship.
“Radio as a means of international]
communication already has proven i
itself, not only by service rendered to
the general pnblic, but by the service
i has rendered to government, to in
dustrv and to trade, and now radio in
the home is briuging entertainment]
and instruction to millions of people
who are just bec'nning to glimpse the
possibilities of the new art.
“Radio in the interior of Alaska
with the installation of the Northern
Commercial Company’s oreadcasting
station in this city ceases to be a mat
ter of day message, night message, or
night letter, as heretofore, and be
comes ‘church,’ ‘school,’ ‘theatre’ and
general guide to the population from
300 to f>00 miles of Fairbanks. This in
terview gives you an idea of what this
means to the people of the cities and
towns.
“What it mean* to the prospector. ,
hunter and trapper, isolated from con-!
tact with his fellow men, pou all are
fitted by experience and kdowiadge to
appreciate.”
Dangerous Dan and the Radio.
A bunch of the boys were whooping it
up in a malamute saloon,
And the kid who tickled the music box
was pounding his usual tune,
When out of the night, which was fifty
below, and into the din and glare
There rumbied a voice down the chim
ney pipe that seemed to come from i
tjx» air:
“Hello, hello, all ships and stations;
hello, all malamute saloons;
It’s KFC transmitting, stand by for a
few jazz tunes!”
'•Wall, this beats me!” swore Sam Me- |
Gee, and looked at Dan McGrew,
Who’d turned as pale as his white
mule ale, and the woman that’s1
known as Lou.
“Hello, hello,” said the voice again,
“we ll now broadcast to you
A hot fox trot by Haroid Weeks, and,
boys, the piece Is new!”
“Who in nell is Harold 'Weeks?”
yelled dangerous Dan McGrew;
“I’m off this bootleg stuff,’, he said,
and aimed a kick at Lou.
But the music swelled like a pent-up |
flood and it filled the old saloon;
It played “The Sheik,” “Down Bimini
Bav”and “ ’Neath a Tropic Moon.”
The kid on his stool banged away like
a fool, but the barkeep said, “Pipe
down!’’
A huskie howled, but a bullet plowed
the brain of the luckless houn’;
The music stopped; “That’s all to
night,” said the voice down the
chimney flue;
“Tomorrow night is Arctic Night, and,
boys, we’ll give.to you
The real low-down that Service wrote
on the womnn that’s known as
Lou.”
Wall, Lou turned white as a ku klux
kite and wept a Klondike cry.
“I’ll burn my letters, Dan,” sobbed
she, “I know that bird will lie!”
“Now. witness you me,” shrieked Sam
McGee, and ho broke his glass on
the floor;
And he signed this pledge on the win
dow ledge: “I’ll drink no ‘moon’
no more!”
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private rooms.
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog feed.
Diamord Dick - - Proprietor
A report from St. Michael states
that, a half-breed woman -was recently
found senseless and id a battered con
dition close to the deserted ways of the
defunct N. A, T. Two men were ar
rested on suspicion.
Benjamin D. Stewart),has resigned
his position as Territorial mine in
spector to become supervising mining
engioeer in Alaska of the Federal bu
reau of mines, under the Department
of the Interior.
ns
LOUIS GORMAN
Big .River
General Supplies Fresh From the
Outside
Furs Bought' and Sold
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best, of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses Under Construction.
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kiiskokw im Valley
Napatnute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
John £. Baker
Independent Candidate
for
Territorial Representative
Write His Name On the
Official Ballot