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Gilded sheet metal replica of a 1920's radio microphone atop base. Two looped handles on upper sides with ovoid opening in top center of microphone. Awarded to KFKB by Chicago's Radio Digest in 1930. Dr. John R. Brinkley (1885-1942) established KFKB in Milford, Kansas in 1923, and used the station to promote both his goat gland procedure and his line of patent medicines. In 1931 the FCC refused to renew Brinkley's radio license, prompting him to establish XER just across the Texas Border in Villa Acuna, Mexico.
Date: 1930
Item Number: 348720
Call Number: 1982.43.8
KSHS Identifier: 1982.43.8
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Radio
Collections - Museum
Date - 1930s - 1930
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Personal Symbol - Trophy
People - Notable Kansans - Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942
Places - Cities and towns - Milford
Places - Counties - Geary
Places - Other States - Illinois - Chicago
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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