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THE CRENSHAW COUNTY NEWS, LUVERNE, ALABAMA rvA-4r THINGS I UNUSUAL WRK1EYS Jlfter every ratal Improvement Over One Tube Reflex New Circuit Has Range of More Than 1,000 Miles on Head Phones. By T. T. MAXEY (Edited by Douglas Wardrop. Editor of Radio Merchandising 1SZ4.

Western Newspaper union.) CONEY ISLAND taste better. By EDWARD J. WIGGINS. A portable radio receiving set hookup six inches high and seven inches square and containing one stage of straight radio frequency amplification, one stage of retiexed radio frequency I amplification and one stage of reflexed audio frequency amplification on one tube and using a fixed crystal as a rectifier, has just been perfected. It is for the amateur set builder and Is a great Improvement over the former Erla one-tube reflex, the first circuit to give loud speaker reception on one tube.

The new circuit, officially named The Little Giant," has a summer range of more than 1,000 miles on the head phones and more than 100 miles prevent oscillations generated by tht on the loud speaker, without addition- E3 Rear View of New Trirdyn Receiver Simplicity of operation and construction makes this new Trirdyn 3 3 the perfect receiver for all purposes. It will operate with any antenna and does not reradiate when receiving broadcast signals. Four important radio principles are employed in this circuit, which gives signal strength equal to five tubes, but only three are necessary in the Trirdyn. WRIGII al amplification. It has only one tuning adjustment and this can be accurately logged.

There is no body AIRPLANE AS AID TO CUPID i I By MYRA A. WINGATE 1824. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 14 TT' to see Miss Carlyle, said the young man as the maid opened the door. Sure, sir, sites gone. Went away on the train this mornin.

The doctor winced under the blow, discovering that tiie healthy young personality harbored strange and un-suspecte I emotions. The mistress of the house could give but little additional information. One of the young ladies was going East and asked Miss Carlyle to go with her. Miss Carlyle thought it safer for a convalescent than traveling alone. Standing on the curb, the doctoi scanned a time-table.

No chance of overtaking the express. Couldnt go anyway, with a lecture to deliver at 2 o'clock 50 miles away. Ill take every chance, though. He drove to the telegraph office and sent a message to be delivered on the train to Miss Carlyle. Will Miss Carlyle communicate with Doctor Holt? Urgent." He jammed down savagely on the accelerator as he drove away.

An un-wary pedestrian cleared his radiator by one skip and turned to shout resentfully Why dont you travel by airship? Inspiration No. He swung Into the stream of cars proceeding toward the county fair grounds, dodging heedlessly In and out among them. I say, old chap," burbled the maniac, were you ever in love? Many a time," grinned the aviator. Take it easy, boy. The second attack is milder.

There's but one and she left on a train East, yelled Holt. You are crazy! ejaculated the airman, and I ought to give you in charge. Why didnt you ask her before she went? How come? Can you overtake that train? asked Doctor Holt. You bet you! was the succinct reply. "Then lets go, said the doctor, Ill pay the price." I have to make an exhibition flight EJend model or drawing for examination.

Highest reference. Best resalts. Promptness assured. Watson E. Coleman, Booklet FRBEL Patent Lawyer.

64 4 ti St Wachlaftoa, D. Prehistoric "Little Nancy Etticot in a white petticoat Small Elsie read this in her book of nursery rhymes. Mother Yes, my child. What is a petticoat? But mother, a married flapper In knickerbockers, and Elsie in bloomers, didnt know. So they went to grandma.

Yes, indeed, said the dear old lady. I remember the petticoat. It was a quaint garment that women wore when grandma was a tiny girl. Los Angeles Times. Every normal person desires and deserves the chance to play occasionally and every large city has Its nearby piay spot.

Consequently, it came to pass that our most noted artificial--as differentiated from our natural national parks playground was located adjacent our largest aggregation of hud-dled-up humanity, New York City. Coney Island has been refer re 7 to as America's Mad Playground, and the stranger who visits it on a hot summer night readily and naturally gains the impression that the swarming hordes of people are mad for play, also that almost everybody is going to or coming from Coney Island. Perched on an outflung point of Long island About an hours ride from "the big city, with a sloping, sandy beach upon whicli breaks and rolls the Atlantic ocean's surf, Coney Island is one of the most popular bathing places in the world. The creek which formerly separated Coney fiom Long island having been partially filed in, it is no longer a separate island, but the name, known world wide, was not changed. Belonging originally to the Cannrsle Indians who called it Narrioch, Coney Island came into possession of white people as far back as 1G43.

The present Coney dates from the erection of a pavilion in 1844. Since that time it has grown steadily and marvelously as an amusement center and is now the widest-known amusement resort we have. A specineular cluster of domes, spires and odd-looking buildings, eafes, dance floors, shooting galleries, roller coasters, movies, merry-go-rounds, freak stunts, peanut, popcorn, ice cream and hot dog stands, one can see here every form of thriller yet invented and many that can be seen nowhere else, hear noises and experience confusions before unknown. As one observer expressed it It is movement. Everything shakes or glides or shimmies or jumps or tumbles or turns nothing ever stands still.

Most folks go their to cut loose and a good time. If their facial expressions are a safe guide for tiie formulation of an opinion, they certainly get what they go after. Older folks often seem on their guard, lest they lost their dignity, but most of them, in a moment of laxity, stoop to some Indulgence, enjoy the sport and enjoy the crowd of care-free fun-chasers. This is one place where Fun is King. One simply cannot remain there and stay serious.

The rapidly increasing popularity of tuned radio frequency in receiving sets is clearly indicative of Its extreme efficiency. A prominent radio corporation has used tuned radio frequency for the past two years, notwithstanding the great amount of publicity already given to tuned radio frequency of the transformer type. It is gratifying to the president of the corporation to know that so many large and intiuential manufacturers are turning to tuned radio frequency amplification in the design of the new receivers. The newest addition to the line is the Trirdyn 3 It 3, announced on the third anniversary of the corporation. The Trirdyn, having passed through a thorough test from every angle, and after practical use by people in various parts of the United States, was deemed ready to distribute to the public.

Laboratory tests are not always ns practical as those given a receiver under the different circumstances encountered in actual operation and the reports received bore out the excellent tests of the designers. A yehr lias been given to perfecting this receiver. Four important principles are ln receiver design in the Trir-oyn: tuned radio frequency amplification with the first tube Armstrong regenerative detector action with the second tube; reflex amplification by employing the first, or radio frequency tube as an audio amplifier and one stage of audio frequency with the third tube. These factors combined In the particular arrangement of this receiver give signal strength of a receiver utilizing five tubes. The Trirdyn will not reradiate when receiving broadcasting stations signals due to the fact that the antenna is very loosely coupled to the secondary circuit and a nonoscillating radio-frequency amplifier is employed before the regenerative detector, as a barrier to detector upon reaching the antenna.

The primary or antenna circuit ol this set is aperiodic or untuned, making it possible to calibrate the secondary circuit and the tuned radio frequency amplifier in terms of wave-length thereby enabling the receiver to be ac curately adjusted to the signals of any broadcasting station from a ealibratf-jr table or curve sheet. This arrangemenl greatly simplifies tuning, making it pos sible for the operator after having ones located a given broadcasting station, tc again return to It by adjusting the twe tuning dials at the numbers previously logged. This makes it the ideal receiver. The set is very selective because it employs tuned radio frequency, loose coupled antenna and a tuned secondary. It is possible to receive the distant stations despite local interference For example, in Cincinnati it is possible to tune in KDKA which is only 17 meters higher in wave length than WLW, while tile latter station is in operation.

The operation of the Trirdyn is very simple and will give excellent results with any type of antenna. It operates satisfactorily with a small indoor antenna, which provides loud-speaker volume, even on long distance stations and good results have been obtained without using any antenna, using only a ground connection. It requires a detector and two amplifier tubes of standard type and satisfactory results are obtained when dry cells are employed for lighting the fiia-1 merit, but the volume will be greater with 6-volt tubes. The amplifier circuit employs 00 volts of battery, but will operate satisfactorily with 4c volts. A battery may be employed if desired.

The Trirdyn is enclosed in a beatuitful solid mahogany cabinet and cabinet to match may be used for the dry cell batteries. Important to All Women Readers of This Pcoar Swamp -Root a Fine Medicine warned the airman. at 2 p. Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect it. Womens complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease.

If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition they may cause the other organs to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, headache and loss of ambition. Poor health makes you nervous, irritable and may be despondent; it makes any one so. But hundreds of women claim that Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions.

Many send for a sample bottle to see what Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine will do for them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer Binghamton, N. you may receive sample size bottle by parcel post. You can purchase medium and large size bottles at all drug stores.

Advertisement. The New One-Tube Erla Reflex Which Operates a Loud Speaker on Nearby Stations and Gives a Radius or More on Head Phones During the Summer. capacity ln the set and, due to the radio frequency amplification, interference from static is minimized. The set is easy to build and simple to operate, there being nothing tricky about the circuit. The prin- cipal thing for the amateur to watch is the proper selection of parts.

These can easily be had and will cost around $20. The parts are as follows; One punel 6 by 7 inches. One baseboard 5 inches wide and seven Inches deep. One selectoformer. One Erla fixed crystal rectifier.

One No. 1 Erla reflex transformer, One 6 to 1 Erla audio transformer. One socket. One open-circuit jack. One 23-plate variable condenser.

One 3-inch bakelite dial. One 25-ohm rheostat. Three tested capacity fixed condensers of .001, .002 and .00025 respectively. Five binding posts. Twelve feet of No.

12 or 14 tinned Obviated by This Plan copper wire. If the set has a tendency to howl the .00025 fixed condenser should be replaced by a .00015 or a .0001 fixed condenser, the proper value being determined by experiment. The C-301-A tube should be used with four Iji-vnlt dry cells connected in series. Ninety or more volts of plate buttery will give best results. The antenna should be about 100 feet, thoroughly insulated.

Where the antenna Is strung two trees the insulators be at least four feet out from the nearest foliage. Where the set is being used at a camp, a ground contact should be made by driving in an iron rod or piece of pipe until it reaches damp ground, or make a connection with the iron pipe of a pump. Where the set is used at home, connection to a cold water pipe is the best. Tuning must be done carefully as the circuit is extremely sensitive and selective. Once a station is registered it can be picked up again by returning to the same point on the dial.

Capacity May Be By E. G. MAHONEY well known that the general of shielding panels is not as as it might be. While tinfoil metal eliminates the body it also has a tendency to ab- Metallic Shafts of a Variable Condens'r Are Insulated From the af.d Dial by Small Strips of Insulating Material as Shown, Body Is Eliminated. Body It is practice efficient or sheet capacity, How to Build Your Own Series-Parallel Switch By S.

STARR WALBRIDGE In constructing a honeycomb coil let, the diagram of which calls for a series-piirallel switch to pm the primary condenser in either series or parallel witli the primary coil, a very neat job can he done by using a four-spring, two-closed-contact juck. The jack should he connected as shown in the accompanying diagram. The change from series to parallel is made by inserting a wooden plug where the phone dug would ordinarily go. If you have an old violin key, this maybe cut off and will suit the purpose rery well. Another method of making the plug is to cut a small spool in half, shape the cut end of one-half to suit yourself, and insert a short, round stick just the size of the hole in tiie spool.

The plug may be enameled black. This arrangement not only works well, hut requires a very short time for installation, and takes up very She Misunderstood Miss De Style I read a lot in the paper about separationists. Who are they? Miss Gunhusta Residents of Reno, I suppose. A REMARKABLE JECOVERY Birmingham Lady Suffered a Long Time Before Finally Taking Cardui and Enjoying "First Health in Years. If the Knob Capacity And I have to speak at a meeting 50 miles west at the same hour, returned tiie doctor grimly.

"Jumping Jehosaphat! but this is going to be one bird of a trip. Map spread out before him, the aviator talked rapidly. "I know this country. Heres the express. In an hour and a half we land at this junction.

You ride on the train for half an hour. I'll hop off and and land at this station ahead of you. You leave the train there. With good luck we head back before 12. That will give us about three hours to come back 140 miles, carry you 50 miles further and bring me back here.

Are you game?" All right, said tiie doctor, lets go. The express stopped at the Junction water tank and the chair car door flew open to admit a pale-faced young giant who swung an aviators leather helmet in one hand. He strode down the aisle glancing from right to left until he came upon tiie girl lie sought. Doctor Holt she exclaimed, rising in alarm. Is anything the matter?" The color rushed to his face.

May I sit down, Miss Carlyle? he asked. Ive come a hundred odd miles by airplane to see you for half an hour, and now Im iiere I'm just a stuttering idiot. Sit here. Miss Freeman has gone into the other car. And please stutter some more, laughed the girl, "for 1 love to hear it.

I Id like to stutter for you all my life. I mean Id like to be where you could always hear me stutter. Oh, hang it I dont know how to propose. Told you I was an idiot, but yours to command if youll take me. Didn't know until last night that well, 1 care a lot.

Tiie words were incoherent, hut his eyes pleaded for him. Not too fast, Doctor Holt, warned the girl gravely. Though Im willing to admit that I could care a lot, also." After which tiie moments went upon wings. Sense and memory returning temporarily, the doctor asked Did you get the telegram addressed Miss Carlyle'?" "What telegram? questioned the girl, puzzled. A lady who was passing, stepped back to say Pardon me, but I could not help hearing.

My name is Carlyle, also, and 1 have received a mystifying telegram. Perhaps it is yours. Doctor Holt stayed her hand as she fumbled in her bag. "Miss Carlyle, can you believe me when I tell you that tiie telegram is no longer necessary?" Glancing at their radiant faces, she answered, smilingly, Easily." Then keep it, please, he urged. "May you never he ill.

but if you are, just follow directions." The lady laughed outright. This certainly smacks of mystery, sir," she answered. However, I will shield you. Congratulations to both. Some speed, boy, some speed," declared tiie aviator as his passenger alighted with 30 minutes to spare.

With tiie rapidly diminishing hum of the motor in his ears, the doctor changed collars and brushed his hair. Not one of tiie audience that he faced some moments later could have guessed that he had once that day been a stuttering idiot." THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS Scattered up and down the coast of California each one days journey on horseback apart from the next are a chain of twenty-one great Spanish missions, which stand as a monument everlasting to the credit of the Franciscan Fathers. Connected by a Historic trail known as El Camino Real" (The Kings Highway), approximately 700 miles in length extending from San Diego northward to Sonoma, these romantic and picturesque buildings Moorish in architecture might well be classed as The American counterpart of the things that people go to tiie old countries of Europe to see. These famous missions are a relic of a romantic and yet fearless endeavor, carried on by the Franciscan missionaries, at the command of the king of Spain to establish through a series of religious outposts a knowledge of Christianity in her farthermost possession. The movement took definite form when the Mission San Diego was founded in the year 1769, but the chain was not completed until 54 years later when the Mission San Francisco de Solano at Sonoma was established.

How 4nany additional missions I might have been added to this chain and how much farther up tiie coast it would have been extended, nobody knows, because before the advent of 1824 the system was disrupted and further construction stopped by the government of Mexico. However, this labor of love then had to its credit the civilizing and the Christianizing of a race of savage Indians which had been taught to read, write and ply themselves at useful trades and play musical instruments. Some of these missions now lie in ruins or have passed entirely into oblivion. Others, in a splendid state of preservation, are still used for regular service. The San Jose, fifty miles south of San Francisco, although not to be compared in size or cost to some others, has been accorded i marked attention.

It once owned more than 25,000 head of live stock. The San Antonio de Padua, east of San Luis Obispo, was compensated for its lack of riches by a tinge of romance such as few. If indeed any of the others, possessed. San Gabriel, four miles from Pasadena, much visited, has been described as a picture to remember for a lifetime. San Buenaventura, north of Los Angeles, a glorious relic recalled from the past to bless with its memories the present and the future," had perhaps the most beautiful altar of all, while San Luis Ray de Francia, near Oceanside, with walls four and five feet thick, its corridor containing 250 arches, was perhaps the greatest, richest and grandest of (hem ail.

sorb energy from the apparatus which it is shedding. I preseui herewith a novel and efficient method of eliminating this nuisance, as per sketch, which is prac- A Pheap aIU efficient antenna lead-licail sell -explanatory. When mount- I insulator may be constructed from ing a variable condenser with a ver- i a piefe of boiler glass tubing, n.er. the connecting link between the two corUs and a brass rod. two 1 earner shafts should a fiat piece of hone or any godd insulating material, the same being fitted into the saw slit and a hole drilled with a No.

50 drill and a copper rivet inserted. The one-fourth inch shaft upon whicli the dial is mounted should lie of hollow brass in which the smaller rod fits. This method may also be applied to variocouplers no rear panel is necessary with a variocoupler, as tiie average coupler on the market today is self-supporting. Radio News. A Very Good Lead-In Insulator Composed of a Glass Tube, Two Corks and a Brass Rod.

Tiie glass tube, which should be 12 inches long, may be obtained from Birmingham. Ala. Before her recent remarkable recovery, Mrs. Moore, 2309 Thirty-third A ve North, this city, was frequently so il. and weak that she had to sit down while doing her housework.

For many years I suffered with female trouble of every description, says Mrs. Moore. "I was told an operation was necessary to save my life. At times I was not able to stand on my feet. I have cooked many a meal sitting, while iny husband and children handed me tiie things with which to do it.

I had given up all hope of ever being well again. It is a sight what women will suffer before they will listen to the advice of others. Several of my friends had taken Cardui and been benefited by it. They told me about it, but I thought my ease was hopeless. Finally I told ray husband to get me some Cardui and 1 began to take it.

After I had taken the first bottle I saw that I was iny proving. I took eleven bottles at that time before I was cured, but as it was the first health I had had for years I was thankful to do it. I cant praise Cardui enough. most any plumbing shop at a low price. Neat and Efficient Series-Parallel Switch Can Be Made by Employing a Jack of the Type Shown.

ittle panel room. Only one hole need se drilled in the panel instead of leveral as for the ordinary series-jiarallel switch, and the result is much licer in appearance. Radio News. Loud-Speaking Crystal Set Not Yet in Sight Beware of the man who offers to tell you how to build a loud-speaking crystal set. It cannot be done without the addition of one or two bulbs, and most of tiie "plans advertised prove to be nothing but hook-ups of standard audio-amplifiers.

There is a mechanical amplifier made in England for use with crystal receivers, but the price.of the device is staggering. But taken by itself it is absolutely impossible to --work a loud speaker on a crystal set unless tiie set is located within 500 feet of a broadcasting station. Tiie only energy present in such a radio receptor Is what is picked up by the aerial, and its actual value is infinitesimally small. Guard Against Errors In Building Radio Set Radio set builders who take pains to secure the best layout of material on the panels are often puzzled to know, without drilling the panel, just how instruments will appear. Take a piece of heavy cardboard or duplex board, cut It to panel size.

Lay out the panel as you think you want it, drill the holes, attach it to the baseboard and mount the instruments, using rubber bands to hold them temporarily. You can see how they lofik and how the distances between instruments work out. If it is satisfactory use the card-hoard as a template for drilling the panel. If changes are needed you can make as many ns needed without ruining a sheet of expensive paneling. Tinning Soldering Iron to Make Solder Stick Radio set builders and experimenters who have trouble with their soldering Irons will find 10 cents worth of sul ammoniac a good investment.

It is a white powder. When the Iron jets refractory about holding solder, file it clean and bright, heat it a trifle ihove soldering temperature. Plunge in the sal ammoniac and then apply (older and rosin, or use rosin cored (older. Coat the point half way up the iron. Let the iron cool and then ise it as before.

Cure in not getting it too tiot will prevent burning off the tinning, as it is called. CAN BE CURED Your credit is good. I will send you a $1.00 treatment on trial. Send today for this simple home treatment. JA-WA-LE LABORATORIES 26 Rlmbacb Avn.

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