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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554

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SOME BIG LIGHTNING FLASHES, PHOTOGRAPHED DURING THUNDER-STORMS AT NIGHT. 1902.] HOW THE WEATHER IS FORETOLD. IO27 messages, and as some come from a great dis-tance, it would cost Uncle Sam a considerable … A FLASH OF LIGHTNING PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A CITY TOWER sum of money if each weather report was writtenout in full; and so he uses a system by which avery few words are made to mean a very greatdeal. For instance, the observer at Boston maysend this despatch: Irregular Nevada Bore.Now, of course, as it…

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