OK well she's good to go now, all I need is a period correct cloth cord (a reprodution one of course), and this radio will be ready to go back together!
This thing is super sensitive for a TRF set because most of the time these TRF sets get a bad rap for being very lousy at getting anything in (radiotvphononut for example says these things are horrible as DX'ing) but I was receiving stations from Cincinatti, Chicago, Waterloo, Iowa, Fort Wayne, Indiana, etc on this radio earlier this morning with no problems and all I had hooked up to it was a 6' length of wire.