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...Ember-Better...
...Chicago, last December, John F. Barrett, stockbroker (John F. Barrett & Co.), bet his friends that there would not be an official temperature reading as low as zero in Chicago before March 1. He won $1,250. His system: "For years I have been using the wind direction on Ember days as a basis on which to forecast. The Ember days, you know, were named as movable dates for prayer and fasting by the Council of Placentia in 1095. When the December Ember days came, the wind was, over the period, predominantly from the East. As the eastern part...
Died. Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Ember, their six-year-old invalid son and Mrs. Ember's maid; at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, when their house burned to the ground. Dr. Ember was Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Two children survive. Life-work manuscripts were lost...
...friend Rossiter spends the latter part of these long winter evenings gazing silently into the fire. I never dared to ask him what shadows he saw there. But last evening he drew me to his side, and while we sat together in the ruddy ember gloom, he painted this picture...
Quick, O memory, seize each ember...