Several people in Oxford who have installed radio outfits complain to the Public Ledger that they are unable to receive the radio news at night on account of so many people here using the violet ray apparatus, which was recently sold in large number in Oxford. The violet ray apparatus is operated by electric current, and it is said to be very beneficial to those with certain ailments. It certainly will make an old man a bit frisky, as well as smooth the wrinkles in a woman’s face and make her appear 20 years younger.
The radio bugs request the violet ray bugs not to cut in during the radio concert hours.
Of course they might as well talk to the man in the moon as to ask any one with a shrunken limb, or a woman with wrinkles in her face, to defer the use of the current for a single moment.
The first thing that the radio bug does when he reaches home in the evening is to adjust his radio outfit and await the evening concert. Along about the same hour the violet ray bug adjust his apparatus and begins to drive the pain from his body.
The Public Ledger offers no solution to the marvelous problem.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, June 5, 1923
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