Radio Broadcast - 1924, January - 84 Pages, 8.2 ... - VacuumTubeEra

THE MISSOURI STATE PRISON CONCERT BANDWhen the Prison Band Goes onat WOSHow the Missouri State Prison Musicians Captivate Their Radio Audiences to theExtent of 2000 Letters a Concert, not to Mention Sympathy, Cigars, and CigarettesBY J.Announcer, Station WOSM. WITTENin the Union and in the PacificIT has been your good fortune to tune-inin Canada, several states of Mexico, every state aroused the interest and sympathy of a welfareone of the delightful concerts of the aggregationships Atlantic,and Arctic Oceans and the Caribbean Sea.known as the Missouri State Prison This organization has very probably re-Band I know that you have been well repaid,and that you still had your head-set efforts than any band or similar organizationsceived more radio mailIFappreciation of itson, or the loud speaker going, when the blowing in the country, as the mail following each concertof Taps the last feature on an M. S. P. B.had averaged two thousand cards andof program was rendered.letters. Eighty telegrams and forty-five longdistancecalls have been received during a singleThis band broadcasts every other Mondaynight at nine o'clock (C.S.T.), from WOS, concert.Missouri State Marketing Bureau, Jefferson In addition to the cards and letters of appreciationon the entertainments, the "boys" of theCity, Missouri. The broadcasting equipmentat WOS is a 5OO-watt Western Electric installationin the dome of the State Capitol. It is a made" cigarettes and cigars which they wouldband are the recipients of hundreds of "tailor-Class B station, transmitting on 441 meters or otherwise be unable to procure.680 kilocycles. The concerts by the band have Many of the letters and cards offer help andbeen distinctly heard and greatly enjoyed, accordingconsolation to the boys. Letters from welfareto reports, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Alaska, workers are not uncommon and are generallyCuba, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Newfoundland,offers of assistance. A certain member of theBritish Columbia, every province band, by his beautiful rendition of a solopart,