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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1968
Page
19
A note highlights Roemer’s 17th century timing of Io’s eclipses to estimate light’s speed. He found light travels about 186000 miles per second, close to modern value, based on Earth’s orbital distance from Jupiter. The article links Galileo’s early telescope work to later measurements in a concise science scrapbook style.
Amsterdam reports that Dutch pigs are fed largely on American grown wheat and barley. Henry Petrie, a major meat exporter, notes American pigs fed on corn are fatter, while Dutch pigs receive a sterner diet of US export wheat and barley, yielding leaner meat preferred by Americans.
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