[Jeffhs]

With two RF stages ahead of the antenna, this should be a very sensitive radio. You will probably (almost certainly) need to use an outdoor wire antenna with this set, as well as a battery eliminator or the proper batteries (the latter are very difficult to find unless you can use a 6- or 12-volt car battery).

As simple as this radio is, even with two RF stages, I wouldn't expect high performance from it. The "antenna" control on the front panel looks like an antenna trimmer adjustment. I was surprised to notice that the control marked "volume" on the panel is actually a variable capacitor, rather than a potentiometer, so it probably varied the signal strength instead of the actual audio volume. I am not an expert on 1930s radios by a long shot (nowhere near; by the time I was born, in 1956, and certainly by the time I started experimenting with electronics in the '60s, the superheterodyne principle was the industry standard), but from what I have read in posts to this forum I have learned that these 1930s battery sets were, as wa2ise noted, the first generation of radio receivers and, as such, were very simple by today's standards.

Once you get this one working at peak efficiency, however, it should serve you well. IIRC, Stroudsburg is near Philadelphia, so with a good antenna you should be able to receive most of that city's major AM stations such as KYW, et al.

I also noticed that your Silvertone model e either does not have a loudspeaker (the radio may have designed for use with headphones only) or, if it did originally have an external speaker, the latter is missing and will have to be replaced with a similar transducer (likely a horn speaker in a radio of this vintage). I don't know if a PM (permanent magnet) speaker would work with this radio; probably not, as these sets were designed to work only with their original speakers, which may well have been electrodynamic or electromagnetic. If the original speaker is of the latter design, its field coil is part of the power supply and must be present in order for the radio to work at all. Since your set is a battery radio, however, I doubt that there would be a choke coil of that sort anywhere in the power supply, although I could be very sadly mistaken as my knowledge of 1930s radios, as noted above, is extremely limited.

BTW, the shape and design of the metal tag attached to the chassis bearing the radio's model/serial number is a tipoff that your set was in fact marketed by Sears and Roebuck, although this set predates the Silvertone era; I don't think Sears used that name on their radios until the '50s, at the earliest.