e-newspaperarchives.ch (run 2, 2026-10-03): retry of a site blocked in run 1

Site: https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch (Swiss newspapers; Veridian software). Access: run 1 got HTTP 403. In run 2 a Cloudflare "Just a moment" check passed by itself in Chrome; no CAPTCHA appeared. Searches used /?a=q&txq=...&dafyq=FROM&datyq=TO. Article text was read from the article page's "Text" panel, with the search term highlighted. Result: positive.

Queries tried (with date limits)

Phono-Vision (all years), Ternion (1930-60), Vibranic (1940-60), "Dipol A.-G." (1930-40), "General Infra" (1940-60), Kassner Ultrakurzwellen (1930-60), Kassner Hochfrequenz (1930-65), Kassner Arbon (1930-40), Dipol Arbon (1932-38), Dipol Laboratorium (1932-38), Ultrakurzwellen Arbon (1931-38), Stoffel Dipol (1932-40), Wiegner Arbon (1932-38), Kurzwellen Konservierung (1932-37)

Findings (all [web])

1. Dipol A.-G. was shut down in 1933, five years before its formal dissolution. Three Thurgau reports on Arbon's municipal finances name "die Aufhebung der Dipol A.-G." (the closing of Dipol A.-G.) as one of three reasons for a large fall in Arbon's 1933 tax revenue. The tax at 1 per mille had yielded "etwas über 100 000 Franken" before; for 1933 it fell to about 70,000 against a budget of 76,000. The other reasons were lower company taxes and salary cuts. - Thurgauer Zeitung, 30 Dec 1933 [web: https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TGZ19331230-01.2.6.1]: "Die wichtigsten Gründe dieser Erscheinung liegen in den Steuerrückgängen bei den Firmen, in der Aufhebung der Dipol A.G. und den Salärreduktionen". - Bote vom Untersee und Rhein, 2 Jan 1934 [web: ...?a=d&d=BUR19340102-01.2.5.6] and Der Landbote, 3 Jan 1934 [web: ...?a=d&d=DLB19340103-01.2.11.4] carry the same report. - Significance: (a) Dipol's laboratory and factory on the Philosophenweg stopped operating in 1933. The SHAB register shows dissolution only on 6 Apr 1938, so its working life was about 18 months (Apr 1932 to late 1933). (b) Dipol paid enough tax (or employed enough salaried staff) for its closure to be named in a town-finance report, so it was a real operation, not a shell. (c) The timing fits Kassner's move to London (1934-36 addresses on his GB and US patents) and the first Ternion patents filed through a London agent. It also puts the research phase of the Fr. 1.12 million research account mainly in 1932-33 at Arbon, then in London.
2. Thurgauer Zeitung, 13 May 1932, reprints the Dipol founding notice ("Unterhaltung eines Laboratoriums zur Ausarbeitung und Verwertung von Verfahren auf elektrophysi[kalischem] ...") [web: ...?a=d&d=TGZ19320513-01.2.6.1]. Der Bund, 1 Jun 1932, has a Dipol/Stoffel hit (not read; probably the register notice) [web: ...?a=d&d=DBB19320601-02.2.31.11].
3. Noise: Ternion matched OCR errors in NZZ classified advertisements (1 Jul 1947), Le nouvelliste (7 Apr 1945) and NZZ (15 May 1932). Kassner Arbon matched the stage magician Kassner (Thurgauer Zeitung, 18 Jun 1937). Phono-Vision matched a 1949 film article in Die Tat.
4. Nothing for Vibranic, "General Infra", Kassner Ultrakurzwellen, Kassner Hochfrequenz, Dipol Laboratorium, Ultrakurzwellen Arbon, Wiegner Arbon or Kurzwellen Konservierung. No Swiss newspaper report of Kassner's food-preservation or UHF work was found in the digitised titles. The Swiss press reported the Ternion group only through register notices and the Arbon tax report.

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