Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36786
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 8, 15 pages., Presentation by APA encouraging radio stations to advertise their programs in farm papers.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers., "The National Broadcasting Company of 195 Broadway awaits only the opening of its Chicago studios in the Fall to institute an extensive service for farm use." Mentions farm material broadcast earlier in the year on KFKX, Hastings, Nebraska. Also mentions KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Radio program announcements have been appearing in various forms - bulletin, press release and pamphlet - from Kansas, Oregon, Michigan, South Dakota and Nebraska. Brief sketches of extension radio activities.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., National School of the Air to open October first - courses include lectures on important phases of farming industry.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1926-05-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36776
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 7, 2 pages., Invites member farm publishers to consider promoting a prize letter contest staged jointly by the USDA, Radio Manufacturers and National Farm Radio Council. Cites considerations for supporting, or not.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1926-04-17
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36774
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 7, Bulletin No. 16. 1 page., Chicago Livestock Exchange has asked the support of the state supreme court in its claim to control the broadcasting by radio of livestock quotations.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Report of a nationwide survey among farm residents by the National Farm Radio Council. Identifies kinds of programs valued by listeners. Article also describes the role and organization of the Council.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28828
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 13, p. 1., "The coming of radio brings a new problem to publishers." Signs of shift.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., USDA reports estimates of more than 1 million receiving sets now in regular use on farms. Article describes listener acceptance of the new medium. Also describes response to the USDA experimental radio market news service announced on December 21, 1920, and developed thereafter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28829
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 11., Proceedings of the Farm-Electrical Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 12-13, 1926. Theme: "What about rural electrification?" Includes an article by Mrs. Harry M. Reifsteck, rural Urbana, Illinois. Her farm home is on the Illinois experimental line and she explains how she uses electrical appliances (range, refrigerator, washing machine, others). "It seems to me that God meant for all of us to live in the country and with modern conveniences it is certainly ideal."
Hayden, Victor F. (author / Executive Secretary, APA) and Agricultural Publishers Association.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1925-08-22
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28858
Notes:
Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., APA Bulletin 34, page 2.., Author notes the growing prospects of advertising by marketers of radios among farm residents.
