radio sets turned out by the boys of his
congressional district by their own endeavors. Bob, Joe, and Jimmy
entered into this competition with great zest. Herb with his habitual
indolence kept out of it.
While the boys were engrossed with their radio experiments an incident
happened in town that led them into many unexpected adventures. An
automobile run by a visitor in town, a Miss Nellie Berwick, got out of
her control and dashed through the window of a store. Bob and Joe, who
happened to be at hand, rescued the girl from imminent peril, while Herb
and Jimmy did good work in curbing the fire that followed the accident.
How the boys learned of the orphan girl's story, got on the track of the
rascal who had tried to swindle her and forced him to make restitution;
what part the radio played in bringing the fellow to terms; how they
detected and thwarted the plans of Buck Looker and his cronies to wreck
their sets; are told in the first volume of this series entitled: "The
Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize."
That summer the chums went to Ocean Point on the seashore, where many of
the Clintonia folks had established a little bungalow colony of their
own. What adventures they met with there; what strides they made in the
practical work of radio; how they were enabled by their knowledge and
quick application of it to save a storm-tossed ship on which members of
their own families were voyaging; how they ran down and captured the
scoundrel Cassey who had knocked out with a blackjack the operator at
the sending station and looted his safe--these and many more incidents
are narrated in the second volume of this series entitled: "The Radio
Boys at Ocean Point; Or, The Message That Saved the Ship."
While the summer season was yet at its height, the boys had occasion to
rescue the occupants of a rowboat that had been run down by men in a
stolen motor boat. The two rescued youths proved to be vaudeville
actors, and the boys grew very friendly with them. The injury that
crippled one of them, Larry Bartlett; the false accusation brought
against him by Buck Looker; the way in which the boys succeeded in
getting work for Larry at the sending station, where his remarkable gift
of mimicry received recognition; how they themselves were placed on the
broadcasting program, and the clever way in which they trapped the
motor-boat thieves; are told in the third volume of the series,
entitled: "The Radio Boys at
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