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DENTON RECQRD-CHROMCL E. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1925TAC,fi SIXV Fite spreading from where trashwas being burned destroyed a pileof lumber and one end and side and the roof of the garage at the duplex apartment of L. W. Newton, 1721*23 North Locust Street, Wednesday afternoon about 4 o’clock* The loss is about $100 and is covered by insurance.The five department made a run t) the railway station yards Tuesday evening about 7;30 o’clock for rn alarm turned in for a burning Ford automohi.e, the name of 'the owner of which was not learned, Jiy the time the department could reach the autorpobil^ J. A. Rose, ticketagent, had extinguished I be flameswith a chemical extinguisher. Theautomobile was not dama;*l iery much auu pibtcedfed Under its own power.S p e t i a i t o It e c o r d - C h r on Me.PILOT POINT, July 2.—At 2:30o'clock Tuesday afternoon at his home PI miles northwest of Pilot Point, Vafl S. Ward saw an object falling from the sky on his farm.After it had flitted to earth hefound that, it was a rubber balloon from thd University Experiment farm at St. Paul, Minn. It is esti-nVoted that the distance traveled wasat least 1,180 miles.Wording on a post card atuftdiedto the balloon said that the object in sending it out was to soe how far black rust on wheat would travel.Ward mailed the post card from the post office at Pilot Point to the return address at St. Paul, Minn.Arthur Evans, the archaeologist, when taken with those now in the possession of the colleges, form the most complete and representative aeries of this rare and ingenious instrument. .v,V ' V The astrolabe appears to have been invented in the second century before Christ by Hipparchus, who measured the exact length of the yer* tin* distance to the fixed stars, the. time of revolution and eclipse of the moon, and invented trigonometry and the system of locating points on the map by latitude and longitude. It is a flat dial with a sight across it and a number of hands which can be set against the numerical tables around the circumference. Its use is to measure the altitude of the sun and the stars.The astrolabe is one of the fewscientific instrument the wreckage of Creek civilization. The Arabs, who in their great da were among the most enthusiastic scientists known until the present s e i en t i fi c d e v e lopment s i n A me r i c aand Germany, brought the instrument to a high standard of perfection and used it generally fur navigation.It is presumed here that this balloon was sent up as a part of theexperiment in which the State Experiment Station northwest of Dentin participated. The Denton station sent up 400 small balloons. Other points over the Mississippi Valley were to send up balloons, and the object as announced was to determine the movement of air currents which are believed spread black rust spores.WE SELL THE FAMOUSLet us put on a new set for youNo raindrop can be more than one-fifth of an inch in diameter. If it grows bigger it splits.
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Denton Record Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1925
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