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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1866
Page
3
Dr. Adam Clarke promotes a weather table attributed to Herschel, noting its remarkable accuracy and urging readers to study it. The table links moon phases and times to daily weather, claiming near midnight entries yield fair summers weather, with wind direction moderating outcomes. winter patterns are less favorable.
A Boston journal describes an extraordinary frost flower said to be produced in Boston using artificial cold. The plant, described as found only on the northern Siberian frontier where snow is eternal, was discovered in 1863 by Count.
A long piece chronicles a rare “flower of snow” born from frost on the first day of the year, its star-shaped bloom and diamond-like seeds, followed by notes on premature interments during cholera, the frozen mammoths of Siberia, and a New York bond robbery tale with a pawn broker facing the law.
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