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...Sunday it was learned that there was a 1500 degrees temperature drop between the surface of the sun and its outlying atmosphere, while today brought the tidings that the planet Eros is really in the shape of a huge brick, rather than possessing an ordinary spherical shape. Fletcher Watson, research fellow at the Observatory, was responsible for this latter discovery...
Present to oppose the bill was R. V. Fletcher, counsel for the Association of American Railroads. He argued that there was no necessity to fix one more onerous law on railroads, that they were glad to do of their own free will what the bill proposed. The subcommittee's Chairman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina and his colleagues were inclined to agree with him. Then Dr. Claus and Rex walked in. Eloquently the young engineer told of the months of training which he and Rex had undergone together at the famed Seeing Eye institute in Morristown...
Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river...
...feature the short non-technical talk, and exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff. Tickets must be procured in advance for the three remaining lectures at which the speakers will be Miss Edith Jones. Theodore E. Sterne, lecturer in Astrophysics, and Fletcher G. Watson, assistant in Astronomy...
...pitcher for an easy force at home plate, ending the rally and the game. The line-ups: DUNSTER (11) ADAMS (8) Briggs, 2b lf, Cavin Norman, p c, Howe Cummings, cf 2b, Hauck Ford, 3b p, Wiley Pamp, lf ss, Van Slyke Hunter, 1b 1b, Soden Flun, rf cf, Fletcher Blackwood, ss 3b, Mason George, c rf, Findley SUBS: Logan, cf Barr, lf Perry...