Word: star
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE.- "Howard Athenaeum Star Speciality...
...this means an instant comparison can be secured between the pole star, as a standard, and the object of investigation, which is to be classified. The polar telescope has an aperture of five inches and a focal length of about seven feet...
...beginning this series of photometric observations, about ten years ago, Prof. Pickering first made use of a horizontal telescope and mirror attachment. The instrument was called a "photometer." There was a companion telescope, also horizontal, combined with it for observing the reflected image of the polar star. The same instrumental adaptations were made for the subsequent or second series. This long experience gave confidence in incurring the expense of the larger under-taking now brought to perfection...
...Apollo Clubs of Yale gave a concert last evening in Tremont Temple under the auspices of the Star Lecture course. The Apollo Glee Club, composed of seventeen members, rendered in an acceptable manner a number of familiar college songs, and also some new ones. Mr. A. E. Jenks accompanied the club as yodler and gave two or three songs very creditably, but otherwise the work of the club was hardly above the average. The Apollo Banjo Club made a very favorable impression, playing selections noticeable for their harmonies rather than for any brilliancy of execution. The work...
Also sponge bags, travelers' drinking cups, "Star" razors, pocket flasks, cuff and collar boxes...