TV, tornadoes made news in January 1927

•The Weekly Gazette began adding new features as the nation evolved through the early 20th century. Many of these, including news, including sports and fashion news, were provided by national syndicated providers.
One of those features, about radio broadcasts, began a few years after commercial radio began, about 1920. An article in the Gazette on January 22, 1927 looked into the future of broadcasting and found “radio vision.”
It was about experiments being conducted in London, England. The article did use the word most people had never heard of before --- “television.” But it quickly added the description to clarify that it involved “instruments for the reception of moving pictures.”
In those London experiments, conducted at night, after radio broadcasts had ended for the day, a person at the receiving end of the broadcast several miles away from the transmitter, would see “what is happening at a distance in the same instant as it happens,” according to the story.
Until, images of movement could be transmitted and received, but they were “shadow graphs,” or silhouettes. But the latest experiments, the article explained, “even the smoke from a cigarette can be seen.”
•The January 29, 1927, issue of The Weekly Gazette had a story at the top of the front page about tornadoes that went through north Louisiana and then Mississippi and Alabama the previous Thursday evening.
A tornado killed 12 people in Pleasant Hill and 19 died because of a tornado farther east, in Tensas Parish, on the Mississippi River. An estimated 100 people were injured by tornadoes in north Louisiana, and about a half million in property damage occurred there.