If you were in the market for a very nice radio a hundred years ago, you couldn’t go wrong with this four-tube Air-Way receiver. For only $114.50, you would get everything you needed, including a Perfectone speaker, a complete antenna, and both of the batteries. You could get it at The Hecht Co., 624 F Street, Washington. Of course, that was a lot of money, according to this inflation calculator, over $2000 in 2024 money.

If you couldn’t swing that much, you could head down to Haverford Cycle Sales Co., 522 10th St. NW (conveniently across the street from Ford’s Theater), and get this one-tube Savoy, Jr., which was guaranteed to pull in the DX stations clear and strong. It also came with everything you needed–radio, tube, batteries, antenna, and headphones. And with a small down payment, you could take it home with a promise to pay a dollar a week.

The ads appeared in the Washington Evening Star, January 18, 1924.