Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...
...Aside from that it was an almost universal success", he continued. "Three of our four stations experienced perfect weather conditions, and only at Buffalo did clouds interfere with our observations. We got 75 percent results from our efforts where we expected only 25 percent at the most...
...heard it all across the country. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company had arranged special wires between seven stations, Buffalo, Ithaca, Poughkeepsic, Middletown, Easthampton, Northampton and New York City. As the period of totality approached, the operator at each station in turn, beginning of course with Buffalo, reported the weather conditions and the time. When the actual phase of totality set on a certain prearranged signal was sent both by telephone and telegraph to the next station in line...
...this way each of us were kept informed of what was going on at the other stations, of the speed at which the eclipse was approaching, and of the weather conditions. This is the first time anything like this has ever been attempted...
...cloudy up to a few minutes before totality set in, but then cleared off beautifully. Miss Cannon, who was stationed at Vassar, reports the same excellent weather conditions. She comments especially on the conspicuous appearance of the shadow bands just before and just after totality, which wavered darkly over the snow. These shadow bands are weird meteorological phenomena about which we know very little...