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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 547

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St. Nicholas : Will you please tell me why, inCalifornia, when the moonlight nights come, the tide rises ?Your reader, Esther Reed. The moon causes the high water, but the high-est mound of water is not directly under themoon, as it would be if the moon and the earthwere both at rest. The moon… … THE AUTOMOBILE THAT RUNS ON A RAILROAD TRACK. makes the round trip between Caldor and DiamondSpring, California, in two and one half hours,traveling seventy miles and using a narrow-gagetrack. It was converted to its present use by A.Hassler to accommodate the employees in a saw-mill located far…

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