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Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Root Electric Company at 127 East Cedar (now Broadway) was displaying the Grebe Synchophase radio receiver. The Dickinson Piano Company featured the Zenith Long Distance radio, capable of picking up broadcasts from “as far as 1,500 miles away.” Even the H. O. Bell auto dealership on South Higgins offered the Radiola, priced from “$35 to $425 with convenient terms, if desired.”
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
Harmon’s Histories: Sentinel Pine bears witness to Missoula’s stories
About one hundred years ago (Sunday, April 26, 1925 to be exact) Arthur L. Stone, the famed newspaper man and founding father of UM’s journalism school, penned a love letter to a pine tree. “High on the hip of Mount Jumbo stands ‘Sentinel Pine.’ Remote from its kind, this yellow pine overlooks the Hell Gate and the Missoula valley with a view unobstructed.”

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