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...Intelligencer waited a week longer it would have been a dunce to declare no news. Last week was one of the newsiest weeks for small-town editors since Halley's Comet...
...TAIL OF THE COMET-Mary Cable Dennis-Button...
Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...
Technically, the comet is in right ascension 16 hours, 13 minutes, 30 seconds, declination 20 degrees, 27 minutes south...
...Observatory has meanwhile been searching the skies, unsuccessfully. Not entirely sceptical, gazers suggest that possibly the "comet" was only a reflection on the photographic plate of Mr. Gale, caused by the brilliant proximity of Mars...