Polaris Guides Navigators in Spring Skies and Cepheid Variability
Washington April 27 An article highlights Polaris the pole star as a crucial reference for navigators. It explains how to locate Polaris using the Big Dipper pointers, notes its yellowish color and distant ninth magnitude companion, and describes Polaris as part of a quadruple star system with a Cepheid variable brightness cycle of about four days.
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Polaris
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Polaris Cepheid Distances Mark Polaris as Bright Northern Guide
Everett True By Condo notes Polaris as the nearest Cepheid variable to Earth at about 200 light years. It shines roughly 625 times brighter than the Sun and, if placed 33 light years away, would outshine Sirius while serving navigators as a crucial northern beacon. Polaris lies within about one degree fourteen minutes of the North Pole and will drift closer to the pole until 2005 before moving away again.
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Mizar
State Conference Aid Society Reported Growth Across Maryland
Five Maryland counties attended the Maryland Children's Aid Society conference at the Baltimore Alliance offices. DeCourcey Thom presided in Europe for Edgar G. Miller. Plans include quarterly general board meetings with two delegates per county and an $8,000 appropriation for four meetings next year. Frederick and Baltimore counties showed long-running programs with public health, school cooperation, and mobile dental clinics. Edward Wambleton leads Hambleton and Co. Miss Kirwan runs operations.
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Maryland Children's Aid Society
Hell
Baltimore Alliance
Calvert and
Pratt Streets
DeCourcey Thom
Europe
Edgar G. Miller
Henry Watson
Mra. St
Baltimore City
Frederick County
Baltimore County
That County
Albert B. Cook
E Edward Wambleton
Hambleton and Comany
Baltimore
Miss Kirwan
Why Women Get Despondent Ad for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
An advertisement discusses why women are more prone to despondent feelings and nervous trouble, urging a quick trial of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It claims the remedy has no drugs, has stood by American women for nearly fifty years, and targets symptoms like nervousness sleeplessness backaches headaches and melancholia.
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Pinkham
Miracle Remedy Ad Promises Quick Cure for Digestive Ailments
A patient credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with easing a near operation and recovering strength after taking the product. The advertisement claims the remedy removes catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and relieves stomach and intestinal inflammation, including appendicitis. One dose allegedly convinces, money back. Co-Operative Drug Co. Inc. and druggists everywhere.
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Co-Operative Drug Co. Inc
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