Starting about a hundred years ago, radio was becoming very much a rural phenomenon, as shown by this cover illustration from the August 1922 issue of Radio News.

For an interesting scholarly look at radio’s impact on rural America, see the article “Radio in the 1920s: A Social Force in South Dakota,” by Reynold M. Wik, South Dakota History, Vol. 11, p. 94 (1981).

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