Fron Farmington News Highlights Local Notes
Choteau Montanan reports on Miss Frances Carlson heading for Dillon State Normal School with her mother, community sympathy for Charles Monk, flax cutting by Louis J. Otness, Sandy Truchot’s big field, fishing trip updates, and multiple local visits. Community events include grange meetings, school district concerns, and plans for consolidating schools in Farmington.
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Frances Carlson
Dillon
State Normal School
Miss Frances
Charles Monkniin
Louis J. Otness
Sandy Truchot
Sandy
Weight of the Earth and How It Was Measured
The article recounts Cavendish and Baily experiments using torsion balance and pendulum methods to determine Earth's weight. It notes the Earth is over six times as heavy as water, estimating the globe's total weight at 132 quintillion pounds, per the New York Journal.
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East End
West End
Farmington
Harry Thompson
Henry Davidson
Olaf Forseth
Henry Cavendish
Francis Baily
New York Journal
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