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WAUPACA COUNTY POST

November 17, 1921

 

WAUPACA WILL HAVE WIRELESS TELEPHONE FOR MARKET PRICES

 

            Waupaca is soon to have a wireless receiving station comparing very favorably to those of larger cities.  Lee I. Yorkson, Secretary of the Waupaca Civic and Commerce Association, has for some time been planning on receiving wireless weather reports and market quotations.  These reports will then be given to anyone interested.  By arrangement with Mr. Edw. McCormick, manager of the local Wisconsin Telephone Exchange, a general call will be sent out each day on all rural lines and persons wishing to receive the weather and market reports can listen in.

            This week, the serial pole, over sixty-five feet high, donated by St. Mary Magdalene’s congregation, was erected by A.E. Cartwright at the Civic and Commerce Association offices.  Instruments will soon be connected and the daily service will begin.

            The Waupaca Radio Club, composed of young men of the city, have been given the use of a room at the Civic and Commerce Association offices.  These boys are putting in the instruments and someone will be on hand to receive the messages each day.  The boys have been having wonderful success with wireless receiving sets, made by themselves, at their own homes.  Concerts by wireless have been heard from long distances.  Last Sunday night, at the residence of Dr. F.E. Chandler, a number of the boys heard a complete church service, being given in Pittsburgh, Pa.  The singing of the choir, music of the pipe organ, and the words of the rector were heard as distinctly as if using an ordinary telephone.

            The public is invited to call at the Civic and Commerce Association offices, as soon as all instruments are connected, and listen in on the wireless.

Hear Madison Concert

            Wireless stations in Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio reported hearing the recent concert by the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra in the University of Wisconsin gymnasium, which was carried out by wireless telephone from the station in the university physics department.

            Stations in the following Badger cities heard the concert:  Beaver Dam, Portage, Stoughton, Whitewater, Lodi, Mount Horeb and LaCrosse.