A man at an Indian agency hugged his radio last week for news from St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre, S. Dak., and learned that he was a father. Though prairie schooners no longer cross that formidable State, it is still for many miles as empty and lonely as the sea, and as barren of telephone poles. The man at the Indian agency was receiving a kind of shore-to-ship communication on which 5,000 ranch families depend.
Broadcaster of such news, and the first in the whole West to put it regularly on the air, was Mrs. Ida McNeil of Pierre's Station KGFX. Mrs....
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
