Bringing in the Dempsey Fight

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Early receiver 1925 built by Keith Rogers for Walter Burke.

sporadic as he was constantly building and re-building equipment. The fall of the year 1922 stands out vividly in my mind. I was nine years old and that was the year Dad broadcast music to his booth at the Provincial Exhibition. We had red, white and blue cheesecloth bunt— ing to hang, flags to tack up, with red maple leaves and long strands 0f golden wheat. The huge old Victorian-type building sported fall colors from one end of the building to the other, and there was much noise and excitement as this agricultural fair attracted all the farm fam— ilies on the Island for the judging of the harvest. Many had never heard a radio before and very few had actually seen a receiving set. I remember being surprised that music broadcast from our house, which to me seemed miles and miles away, could be heard so clearly at the exhibition grounds. There were only four other experimental stations in the Maritimes

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