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...item of interest to flag-carriers in parades was a flagstaff, which may be telescoped when the flag-carrier passes under a low bridge...
...Hull, England, fortnight ago, a crowd of about 300 gathered in the early morning before the prison yard to watch the flagstaff. Many were praying. Two unarmed policemen with their thumbs stuck purposefully in their belts kept the crowd in order. At 9 o'clock a black flag broke out on the staff. By that signal spectators knew that, despite a blizzard of petitions to the Lord Mayor of Hull, to the Home Secretary, to King George himself, Mrs. Ethel Lille Major had died on the gallows for poisoning her truckdriver husband, first woman to be executed in England...
...m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
...15th magnitude star in the position of the Nova as measured at the Yerkes observatory. The star is new of the 2nd magnitude. The explosive outburst has therefore increased the brightness by more than 100,000 times in less than a month. The spectrum, observed at Harvard and at Flagstaff, now closely resembles the spectrum of the super-giant star, Alpha Cygni, with the addition of bright lines of hydrogen and from. Enormous velocities in the exploding atmosphere are indicated by these spectrum lines...
Born: at Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13. 1874. Start in life: cowboy. Career: in 1875 his parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker...