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II I at a radio concert at the Lonii Dickery I -' f T V I
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The radio "game" is for any number II
of plavers. Above is John H. Negek. 1 ? J I
iSiS Hawthorne avenue, enjoying it S J
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JUNE 18
1922
These radio enthusiasts are the offi
cers of Omaha's only radio club, or
ganised two years ago by 12 boys of
the Henry W. Yates school Left
to right: Durant Rice, vice president;
Lane AsteD, president; Barton Ham
ton, secretary and treasurer.
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-Miss Fave Durkee. 3S31 North Twenty-third street, is
one of Omaha's fair frolickers with wireless.
Every radio fan in Nebraska and hundreds in neighboring states know WAAW. That's
the call for the Omaha Grain exchange broadcasting station, which has been sending out
concerts in addition to market quotations and crop bulletins. The picture shows the broad
casting apparatus, The voice of Frank Taylor, speaking into the receiver, can be heard
by all stations with'n a radius of 1,000 miles tuned in for WAAW's sending wave of 360
meters. Taylor and Ray Kainbolt are in charge of the station.
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This receiving set wss con
structed by J. E. Gatchell,
1314 South Thirty-first street,
at a total cost of 35 cents.
Under favorable conditions it
will record from a dis
tance of 2S miles. Photo by
GatchelL
Officer John H. Phalen of the Omaha police
force is acquiring experience in preparation for
the time when police calls will be sent snd re
ceived by wireless It's a time not so far distant
at that, police officials believe.
No one Is more intensely in
terested in radio than Omaha
Boy Scouts, - Here's a group
of them earnestly at work
constructing their own re
ceiving sets. Left to right:
Lawrence Johnsen, Joe
Vranek, Gene Adams and
George Swoboda. Phot' by
GatchelL
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Gould Diets, Omaha globe trotter, thinks he may be able to
satisfy at home some of that longing for the far away. He's
installed a radio receiving set in his suite at the Fontenelle
hotel and expects to hear the popping corks of Havana
and the lapping waves on the beach at Atlantic City.
Photo by Ernest Bihler.
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A radio set is a great little entertainer;
This radio audience is at the home of
R. D. Miller. 4904 Chicago street. Left
to right: Mrs. W. G. Templeton. R. D.
Muier. Francis Collins, W. C. Kerr. Wes
ley Miller. A. A. Arter, Miss Deweenta
Conrad. W. W. Johnston, Mrs. A. A.
Arter. J. H. Conrad, Mrs. R D. Miller.
W. G. Templeton.
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"Bob." pet of Lane AxtelL 119
North Thirty-second street, ap
pears to be enjoying his first ac
quaintance with radio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Selby enioyin
The Bee radio concerts st their home.
South Thirty-first avenue. Notice
interior antennae on the wall, back ol
Selby. This receiving set is on
most complete in Omaha.
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