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Harmon’s Histories: Poison once a favored murder weapon
Harmon’s Histories: Poison once a favored murder weapon
Harmon’s Histories: Poison once a favored murder weapon
By Jim Harmon I see in the paper that Miss Daisy Dawson hosted the Calamity Whist club at her home in Butte last Tuesday evening and Mrs. George F. Lyman of Anaconda visited Butte friends yesterday. But such social-calendar reporting was rather mundane and unremarkable compared to what I found on page eight of the Butte Daily Inter-Mountain newspaper of February 4, 1899...
Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
Harmon’s Histories: Waxing nostalgic about the early days of radio broadcasting
In December 1923, Waldemar Kaempffert, a “noted technical expert,” described the transition from the “the first timid experiments” with radio signals to the birth of the “broadcasting business.” That business created a whole new language and job descriptions. There were terms like “Broadcast Studio,” “Power Room” and “Master Clock,” and job titles like “Director of Broadcasting,” “Power Man” and “Announcer.”

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