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1909 / J. Dev. footprint / See March 5, 1903. [D; 261. See: 1903 March 5, (C; 567).]

1909 / A haunted house owner left it. In May, 1921, the house been vacant and nothing known of its owner for 12 years, and 2 ex-servicemen took possession. It was No. 19, Birkenhead-avenue, Kingston. / Lloyd's Sunday News, May 15-4-2, 1921. [D: 262.1, 262.2. (Lloyd's Sunday News, May 15, 1921, p. 4 c. 2.)]

1909, etc. / Look for High Peak [note cut off], Peak of Derbyshire, to go with August 28, 1910. / [note cut off] I. [D; 263. See: (1910 August 28).]

1909 / Boys Wimbledon / disap? [D; 264. (Ref.???)]

1909 / Mrs. John Bennett, Gloversville, N.Y. / See May 23, 1914. [D; 265. See: (1914 May 23).]

1909 / Sheep mut. near Peterborough / See Ap. 17, 1910. [D; 266. See: (1910 Ap. 17).]

1909 / Have D. Chron, Ap-June / Good. [D; 267.]

1909 / Only 5 days when no sunspots see. / See 1912. [IX; 1171. See: (1912).]

1909 Jan / Shock to a ship / Nov 9, 1923. [IX; 1172. See: (1923 Nov 9).]

1909 Jan / W. Dispatch stops with Dec, 1908. [D; 268.]

1909 Jan / [untitled article about Jersey Devil] / Philadelphia Record, Sept. 30, 1923. [D; 269. Newspaper clipping. (Philadelphia Record, September 30, 1923.)]

1909 Jan / [Jersey Devil] / [letter to Fort, from James A. Eyster, October 8, 1923.] [D; 270. (Letter;  Eyster, James A., to Fort; October 23, 1923.)]

1909 Jan / [Jersey Devil] / Point is that the tracks were seen. / [letter to Fort, from James G. Guscone, Apr 21, '24]. [D; 271. (Letter; Guscone, James G., to Fort; April 21, 1924.)]

1909 Jan. / [Jersey Devil] / Woodbury / [letter to Fort, from James G. Guscone, May 25th, 1924]. [D; 272. (Letter; Guscone, James G., to Fort; May 25, 1924.)]

1909 Jan / [Jersey Devil] / letter to Fort, from Florence G. Talman, April 29th, 1924.] [D; 273. (Letter: Talman, Florence G, to Fort, April 29, 1924.)]

1909 Jan 1 / Herald of / “Clouds of crows mysteriously attracted to the stricken districts.” [IX; 1173. (New York Herald, January 1, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 1 / At Green Bank, in the Alleghanies, a volc. reported. Flames and a rumbling upon a mt. / Herald 2-5-7. [IX; 1174. (New York Herald, January 2, 1909, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1909 Jan 1-18 . N.Y. Sun / Have. [IX; 1175.]

1909 Jan 1-27 / San Francisco Bulletin, Jan 27 / 38 inches of rain at Boulder Creek, Cal. [IX; 1176. (San Francisco Bulletin, January 27, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 1 / BO / Rain in torrents at Messina / D. Mail 2-5-3. [IX; 1177. (London Daily Mail, January 2, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1909 Jan 1 / 6:30 p.m. / 2 shocks / Algeria / Nature 79-289. [IX; 1178. (Nature, 79-289.)]

1909 Jan 1 / Dispatch of, to Trib of Jan. 2-2-4 / Smoke and flame from a small rocky bluff near Virginia Hot Springs, Va. [IX; 1179. "A Near Volcano in West Virginia." New York Tribune, January 2, 1909, p. 2 c. 4.]

1909 Jan 3 / date of dispatch / Large areas of boiling water off the Virginia Capes. / N.Y. Sun 4-11-6. [IX; 1180. (New York Sun, January 4, 1909, p. 11 c. 6.)]

1909 Jan 3 / date of dispatch / New hot springs in Virginia, in Giles Co. / Sun 4-11-6. [IX; 1181. (New York Sun, January 4, 1909, p. 11 c. 6.)]

1909 Jan 3 / Shock and eruption / Stromboli / NY Trib 4-1-6. [IX; 1182. "Eruption Follows Shock on Stromboli." New York Tribune, January 4, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.]

1909 Jan 4 / near Philadelphia / 2:02 p.m. and 4:22 / q. shocks / See Jan 20. / At 5:30, 10,000 pounds of dynamite in the magazine of the Keystone Quarry Co, near Norristown, exploded. / Herald 5-1-4. [IX; 1183. (New York Herald, January 5, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1909 Jan 4 / Trib of / “Sees Benefit from Earthquake." Dr Lyman Abbott says it will help to upbuild men's souls.” / That is Science on way, Theology other way. Room for some third view. [IX; 1184. "Sees Benefit From Earthquake." New York Tribune, January 4, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.]

1909 Jan 4 / BO / Shocks / Servia. / D. Mail 5-5-2. [IX; 1185. (London Daily Mail, January 5, 1909, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 4 / 11:45 p.m. / Shock at Teneriffe / Nature 79-289. [IX; 1186. (Nature, 79-289.)]

1909 Jan 4 / (+) / q and explosion / Trib, Jan 5-1-5 / That at Philadelphia at 2:32 and 4:22 in the afternoon well-defined q's were felt. At 5:30 an explosion of 50 cases of dynamite of the Keystone Quarry Co., not far from Norristown. Windows in buildings 10 miles away shattered. [IX: 1187.1, 1187.2. "Keystone Quake Felt." New York Tribune, January 5, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 Jan 5 / Severe q's / Reggio. [IX; 1188. (Ref.???)]

[1909 Jan 6] / Messina ./ Estimate Jan 6, 164,850 persons in 55 cities and villages. [IX; 1189. (Ref.???)]

1909 Jan 6 / 8:40 p.m. / 7—9:27 p.m. / 11—5:30 p.m. / 11—7:40 / 11—8:11 / 13—9:48 / 17—8:20 / 19—5:50 / 19—7:50 / Fireball / England / Nature 79-378. [IX; 1190. (Nature, 79-378.)]

1909 Jan 7-14, week / Heavy rain in California. Floods and damage. All bridges over the American River carried away. / B Eagle 15-2-5. [IX; 1191. "S.P. Bridge Damaged by Flood." Brooklyn Eagle, January 15, 1909, p. 20 c. 3.]

1909 Jan 8 / Shocks / Portugal and Spain / N.Y. Trib, Jan 14-1-3. [IX; 1192. "Earthquake Each Day." New York Tribune, January 14, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.]

1909 Jan 8 / Whole western coast of Mexico quaked. / NY Trib 10-2-3. [IX; 1193. "Mexican Coast Shaken." New York Tribune, January 10, 1909, p. 2 c. 3.]

1909 Jan 8 / Severe q's / Canary Islands / NY Trib 10-2-3. [IX; 1194. "Mexican Coast Shaken." New York Tribune, January 10, 1909, p. 2 c. 3.]

1909 Jan 9 / night / Again torrents and shocks at Messina. / N.Y. Trib 12-3-1. [IX; 1195. "Dug Alive From Tomb." New York Tribune, January 12, 1909, p. 3 c. 1.]

1909 Jan 10-12 / BO / At intervals, severe shocks / States of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico / N.Y. Sun 13-1-2. [IX; 1196. (New York Sun, January 13, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 11 / Worst blizzard in years in Southwestern States. / N.Y. Sun 12-3-2 / At Dallas, Texas, in ab 24 hours a fall of temperature of 62 degrees. [IX; 1197. (New York Sun, January 12, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan. 11 / 3:45 p.m. / q. / Wash and B. Columbia / N.Y. Trib 12-1-5. [IX; 1198. "Pacific 'Quake Felt." New York Tribune, January 12, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 Jan 11 / (It) and Fr? / Provensa / ascending flashes intermittent light and q / See 1805. [IX; 1199.  Refer to: 1805 July 26, (I; 146). (Galli, Ignazio. "Raccolta e classificazione di fenomeni luminosi osservati nei terremoti." Bollettino della Società Sismologica Italiana, 14 (1910): 221-448.)]

1909 Jan 11 / 8 h., 11 m / Great met / Wiltshire, etc. / Nature 79-378. [IX; 1200. (Nature, 79-378.)]

1909 Jan 11 / 8:10 p.m. / Kettering. / brilliant meteor / Nature 79-351. [IX; 1201. (Nature, 79-351.)]

1909 Jan 11 / In N.Y. Sun, 12-4-3—told as a joke attributed to the publicity man of the Bridge that a rain of toads, lizards and snakes had fallen on the Queensboro Bridge. [IX; 1202. "Rains Writhing Reptiles," New York Sun, January 12, 1909, p. 4 c. 3. "A wild-eyed man rushed into the office of
of the Queensboro Bridge Celebration Committee in Long Island City yesterdayand declared that something was happening to the big cantilever bridge. He didn't exactly know what it was, but thought it was dreadful from what was told him by the workmen and the watchmen who refuse to go on structure. Secretary Hurapherles called up Engineer Sinclair and instructed him to go to the Bridge and see what the matter was." "When Engineer Sinclair reached the Vernon Avenue tower he saw a knot of excited workmen. He asked if anything had broken on the Bridge and one of the workmen said no but that something worse had happened. Failing to get anything rational Engineer Sinclair ascended the long stairways and got on tho Bridge. At the door of the tower leading to the furthest span from Manhattan Sinclair saw a man with a broom sweeping off something from the iron flooring. The man laughed and when Engineer Sinclair asked what had happened he replied:" "There has been a rain of snakes, toads and lizards, that is all. The men are superstitious and won't work.'" "Then Sinclair saw 'em for himself as told above." "Another peculiarity continues the publicity promoter is that there were
none of these lizards, snakes and toads on either the Manhattan side, the Long Island side or on Blackwell's Island." "Engineer Sinclair thinks that these lizards, toads and snakes were carried in a cloud from some tropical region and that this cloud, depressed by barometrical conditions was just low enough to deposit the creatures on the big cantilever Bridge which acted as a sort of a net or screen to catch them."]

1909 Jan 11 and 12 / 3 q's recorded on seismograph at Cheltenham, Md. , one lasting ½ hour. / Trib 13-1-5. [IX; 1203. "Three Shocks Recorded." New York Tribune, January 13, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 Jan. 12 / morning / Another explosion at the Lick Branch Mine, at Switchback, W. Va. / See Dec 28. / 8:30 a.m. / Between 50 and 100 miners killed. / B. Eagle, Jan 12-1-3 / The mine had been examined earlier in the morning and had been pronounced safe. [IX: 1204.1, 1204.2. "100 Men May Be Dead in Lick Branch Mine." Brooklyn Eagle, January 12, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.  See: 1908 Dec 28, (IX; 1154).]

1909 Jan 12 / B. Eagle 13-2-4 / Fire, smoke, and deadly gases belched from the mine. [IX; 1205. "26 Bodies Removed From Lick Branch Mine." Brooklyn Eagle, January 13, 1909, p. 2 c. 4.]

1909 Jan 12-13 / night / Salvador / shocks / Had been preceding ones. / B. Eagle 13-1-2. [IX; 1206. "San Salvador Shaken." Brooklyn Eagle, January 13, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Jan 12 / After the shocks, smoke was seen rising from Mt. Baker, Washington. / B. Eagle 13-17-1. [IX; 1207. "Mount Baker Shows Signs of Activity After Earthquake Shocks in Washington." Brooklyn Eagle, January 13, 1909, p. 17. The Baker volcano last erupted in 1880.]

1909 Jan 13 / BO / D. Mail, 5-4 / “Snow been falling 10 days at village of Prades, near Perpignan, France. treets covered 10 feet deep—people imprisoned in houses. [IX; 1208. (London Daily Mail, January 13, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 Jan 13 / early morn / Severe qs, northern Italu. Prof. Oddone of the Meteorological Bureau, Rome, said that they had nothing to do with the Sicilian disaster. / N.Y. Sun 14-3-2. [IX; 1209. (New York Sun, January 14, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 13 / Shocks / Southern Austria and northern Italy / N.Y. Trib 14-1-3. [IX; 1210. "Earthquake Each Day." New York Tribune, January 14, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.]

1909 Jan 14 / D. Mail of, 5-2 / Drought continuing in northern Bengal. / For 2 years, deficiency in rainfall. [IX; 1211. (London Daily Mail, January 14, 1909, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 14 / Explosion in the Auka Coal Mine, Veszprim, Hungary. 56 men killed. / B. Eagle 15-1-2. [IX; 1212. "56 Killed; 184 Rescued." Brooklyn Eagle, January 15, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Jan 15 / Hail, thunder, lightning, and q. shocks, Scotland. / D. Mail 16-5-5. [IX; 1213. (London Daily Mail, January 16, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Jan 15, and before / Shocks / South Africa / Nature 79-347. [IX; 1214. (Nature, 79-347.)]

1909 Jan / See July 23, 1885. / See Lightning from clear sky. [IX; 1215. See: 1885 July 23, (VI; 42). See: (Lightning from clear sky).]

1909 Jan 15 / Floods in California. Lines down and railroads washed away. / San Fran Chronicle / 16 inches one night at Stockton. [IX; 1216. (San Francisco Chronicle, ca. January 15, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 16 / BO / See Dec 13. / D. Mail of [Jan 16-5-3 / Great area of yellow water off C. Hatteras. [IX; 1217. (London Daily Mail, January 16, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1909 Jan 17 / 4 groups of sunspots, e. central part of sun. / Pop Astro 17-617. [IX; 1218. Hassard, Albert Richard John Frazer. “Sun-Spot Groups.” Popular Astronomy, 17 (no. 2; February 1909): 117.]

1909 Jan 18 / BO / “Snow fell yesterday in Messina and fresh earthquake shocks were felt.” / D. Mail 19-7-2. [IX; 1219. (London Daily Mail, January 19, 1909, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 18 / Shocks / Greece and Spain / NY Trib 20-1-5. [IX; 1220. "Earthquake in Turkey." New York Tribune, January 20, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 Jan. 19 / (23 / 24 / 27) / Feb 22 / March 19 / May 22 / Oct 21, 22 / Ochil / Geol. Mag 1910-318 / Ochils began 1900. / Glen Garry from 1889 to 1899 / G.M., 1910-417 / Ochil, too / Ap 23, '05. [IX; 1221. Davison, Charles. “On Some Minor British Earthquakes of the Years 1904-1907.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 5 (1908): 296-309, at 297. Davison, Charles. “The British Earthquakes of the Years 1908 and 1909.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 315-320, at 318-319. Davison, Charles. “The Characteristics of British Earthquakes: A Summary of Twenty-One Years' Work.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 410-419, at 417. See: 1905 Ap. 23, (VIII: 2267 to 2271).]

1909 Jan 19 / Violent shocks, Smyrna. In one town, 679 houses wrecked. / Levant Herald, 23rd. [IX; 1222. (Levant Herald, January 23, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 19 / Severe q / Turkey / NY Trib 20-1-5. [IX; 1223. "Earthquake in Turkey." New York Tribune, January 20, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 / ab. Jan 20 / Flood of water down Mt Lagnas, Philippines. Not known whether from an eruption or a cl. brst. / N.Y. Trib 21-3-2. [IX; 1224. "Eruption Freed Water." New York Tribune, January 21, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.]

1909 Jan 20 / Colima, Mexico, in eruption. / NY Trib 21-3-2. [IX; 1225. "Colima Volcano in Eruption." New York Tribune, January 21, 1909, p. 3 c. 2. The Colima volcano.]

1909 Jan. 20 / Explosion / Du Pont Powder Works / Gibbstown, N.J. / B. Eagle 20-2-1 / South N. Jersey. [IX; 1226. "South New Jersey Shaken." Brooklyn Eagle, January 20, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Jan. 20 / Explosion of 2 powder plants at opposite ends of New Jersey. / 7[:20] a.m. at Gibbstown, 20 miles south of Camden, where it was thought to be a q. / 1:25 p.m. at Lake Hopatcong, shock felt 20 miles away. / Trib 21-12-1. / See Jan 4. [IX: 1227.1, 1227.2. "Dynamite Shakes N.J." New York Tribune, January 21, 1909, p. 12 c. 1. See: 1909 Jan 4, (IX: 1183 & 1187).]

1909 Jan 20 / Hallucination / (?) / Chicago street car conductor notifies police that he had seen five men clinging to a cake of ice off Thirty-first street. / Chic. Trib 21-3-5 / A firebug put out but searched in vain. / See Jan 28. [D; 274. (Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1909 Jan 20 and 21 / (+) / See 23. / Shocks in Asia Minor. 79 houses in one town destroyed, L.T. 22-5-d. / light shock on 22nd (23-8-a). / Slight shock on 24th (25-8-a). [IX; 1228. (London Times, January 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.) (London Times, January 23, 1909, p. 8 c. 1.) (London Times, January 25, 1909, p. 8 c. 1.)]

[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 275-277.]

1909 Jan 21 / (+) / Trenton / Trib 22-4-6 / "Two residents of this section now say that they have seen the hoofprints of the 'Leeds devil' [in this section]. Harry Clymer, of [Groverville,] near here, says there were several prints of the hoofs in his back yard a few days ago. Clarence B. Williams says he saw similar tracks while in the City Park at Trenton. Both men describe the tracks as similar to those of a small horse, but in pairs and not fours, and interrupted, indicating great jumping power." / "Mount Holley, N.J., Jan 21—William Cronk, an aged citizen of this town, is telling his neighbors to-day, about his having seen the 'Leeds devil' or “mystery from Mars,' which is causing excitement in this region. Cronk says that while he was eating his dinner yesterday a shadow falling upon the window caused him to look out. He says he saw a huge bird, with long, hoofed legs which hung down from the body, flying high in the air." [D: 275.1 to 275.5. "Leeds Devil in N.J." New York Tribune, January 22, 1909, p. 4 c. 6.]

1909 (Jan.) / During the second, and a great portion of the third decade of the month, the weather was unusually mild, generally over the U.S. / M.W.R., Jan., 1909. [D; 276. Day, Preston Clairsville. "The Weather of the Month." Monthly Weather Review, 37 (no. 1; January 1909.): 30-32, at 30.]

1909 Jan 16 / arg ag. Jef. / It is Bates ag. Jeffries. / All dispatches in agreement with Devonshire. That not by a turkey buzzard and not imagined by a press agent—who himself not appeared upon this earth yet—at any rate P.T. Barnum not in Devonshire in 1855. Said that tracks in N.J. were thawed cat tracks. See met conditions in N.J.—favor this explanation. But no thaw in Devonshire. Explain Mr. J two ways—See Dec., 1909—Mr. Tillinghast. Other a kind of unconscious plagiarisms. Tracks had been seen and reported—he exploited—then repulsion of idea of not being only one in the origin, got thinking he alone had fathered the whole series of events. [D: 277.1, 277.2, 277.3. See: (1909 Dec.)]

1909 Jan 21 / Footprints / Treatment is Mr X said the turkey buzzard did it. Mr. J. says that he did it—then that always is a Mr. J. [D; 278.]

1909 Jan 21-22 / night / B. Eagle—22-20-4 / At the Greek Hotel, 30 E 42nd St., three times during the night, Mrs Mary Wells Jennings, of Brewster, N.Y., on her way to Great Barrington, Mass, called for the night clerk, and had her room changed, saying that she feared there would be a fire. Said it was like an obsession, but she would have to change rooms. Early in morning a fire broke out in a room where paints, during alteration of the room, were stored. [D: 279.1, 279.2. "Guest Predicted a Fire." Brooklyn Eagle, January 22, 1909, p. 20 p. 4.]

1909 Jan. 22 / San Francisco Bulletin / Floods / Transvaal. [IX; 1229. (San Francisco Bulletin, ca. January 22, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 22 / 10:12 p.m. / At Washington, great q. recorded. At Weather Bureau, said that ac to seismographs, it was about 4,000 miles away. / At the State Museum, Albany N.Y., said ab 8,000 miles away. / B. Eagle 23-1-4. [IX; 1230. "Seismographs Tell of Great Earthquake." Brooklyn Eagle, January 23, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.]

1909 Jan 23 / Seismographs U.S. and Europe record violent q., supposed in Asiatic Russia or Caspian regions. / N.Y. Trib, 24. [IX; 1231. "Record Heavy Shocks." New York Tribune, January 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 1 & p. 4 c. 5.]

1909 Jan 23 / NY Trib of / Floods in Transvaal. [IX; 1232. "Scores Die in Floods." New York Tribune, January 23, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.]

1909 Jan 23 / 4 a.m. / In Europe, great q. recorded. / In U.S., at Washington, at 10:30 p.m., on 22nd. / Herald 24-11-1 / Said estimated be in Caspian region. [IX; 1233. (New York Herald, January 24, 1909, p. 11 c. 1.).]

1909 Jan 23 / (+) / Registered at Bombay—“It possibly occurred in Central Asia.” / Registered at Cape Town. / LT 25-8-a / No q recorded for 23rd except Messina in afternoon. [IX; 1234. (London Times, January 25, 1909, p. 8 c. 1.)]

1909 Jan 23 / Seismographs registered strong q. at Plauen, 3 times as strong as during the Messina q., and at St Petersburg—3 times. / Rome—3:45 a.m. / Brussels—2:56 / Hamburg—3:55 / Tortosa, Spain—2:55. [IX: 1235.1, 1235.2. (Ref.???)]

1909 Jan 23 / Severe q / Luristan, Persia / A. Reg / See Times = before 23rd. [IX; 1236. (Annual Register, 1909.) (London Times, ca. January 23, 1909.)]

1909 Jan 23 / Phenomenally high tides on Pacific coast, Brit. Col. to Cal. / NY Herald 24-11-2. [IX; 1237. (New York Herald, January 24, 1909, p. 11 c. 2.)]

1909 Jan 23 / In Nature, Feb 25, 1909, q said been in the Luistan district of Persia, near Burujird. 50 villages suffered and 500 lives lost. / Nature 79-496. [IX; 1238. (Nature, 79-496.)]

1909 Jan 23 / q somewhere else? / morning / Seismographs record in London, Washington, Berlin, Vienna, and other places. Record a q. somewhere at least equal to that at Messina. / “Scientists puzzled.” / Trib 24-1-1 / Was another small q at Messina, morning of 23rd. / No more of it. / Trib, Feb 18—says was in Persia—6,000 dead. / See BA 1911. [IX: 1239.1, 1239.2. "Record Heavy Shocks." New York Tribune, January 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 1 & p. 4 c. 5. "Six Thousand Dead." New York Tribune, February 18, 1909, p. 3 c. 3.  (BA 1911.)]

1909 Jan 23 / (+) / Prof C.F Marvin, of Weather Bureau, Washington, says that Alaska is a very likely place for it to have happened. Also he says, “It may have happened down in South or Central America.” / Trib. 24-1-1 / (Jan 25-7-4 / Scientist thinks it was in Turkestan.) [IX: 1240.1, 1240.2. "Record Heavy Shocks." New York Tribune, January 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 1 & p. 4 c. 5. “Shocks in Turkestan?” New York Tribune, January 25, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.]

1909 Jan 23 / But was this identified? / For similar, see Jan 22, 1910. [IX; 1241. See: 1910 Jan 22, (IX: 1515, 1516, 1517, 1520, 1521, & 1522).]

1909 Jan 23 / in a fog off Nantucket / Collision of the Republic and the Florida. [IX; 1242. (Ref.??? Check New York Times, only 6 deaths.)]

1909 Jan 23 / Herald 24-9-6 / John Harding, of the Imperial Hotel, head of a department in John Wanamaker's, crossing Fifth Avenue at 33rd St, felt a sharp sensation across the chest. At the same time another person near him felt a sharp rap on his elbow and a strange tingling along the back. A third person stopped, but went on. As to the third man, said that perhaps someone was loose in town playing jokes with a powerful electric machine. But what machine? So a woman in March 16, 1883, case blamed.[D: 280.1, 280.2, 280.3. (New York Herald???. January 24, 1909, p. 9 c. 6.) See: 1883 March 16, (B: 465 & 466).]

1909 Jan 25 / night / Explosion in Boswell Coal Mine, Somerset Co., Pa / B. Eagle 26-1-6. [IX; 1243. "Mine Dead May Be 75." Brooklyn Eagle, January 26, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.]

1909 Jan. 25 / During a storm—thousands of little snakes fell from the sky into Golden Gate Park, according to Park Superintendent McLaren and Secretary Healy. / B. Eagle 27-1-6 / They were 3 to 7 inches long, and averaged a quarter of an inch in thickness. / Nothing in the San Francisco Bulletin. [IX: 1244.1, 1244.2. "Snakes Rain Down in Frisco." Brooklyn Eagle, January 27, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.  “Thousands of Small Snakes Rain Down on San Francisco.” Los Angeles Herald, January 28, 1909, p. 2 c. 2. “Thousands of tiny snakes poured from the clouds into Golden Gate park during the storm of Monday, according to Park Superintendent McLaren.” “The superintendent and other attaches of the park declare that for several hours the walks of the big pleasure ground were covered with a wriggling mass of snakes which fell from a dark cloud.” “After the downpour the snakes disappeared in the slush and mud.” “Secretary Frederick Healy, in describing the ophidian precipitation, said:” “We thought at first that they were worms or fish, but on inspection saw they were really snakes, measuring from three to seven inches in length and averaging a quarter of an inch in thickness. We made no attempt to obtain any specimens.”]

1909 Jan 27 / strong shock. / Messina / Nature 79-496 / 8 a.m. [IX; 1245. (Nature, 79-496.)]

1909 Jan 28 / See Jan 20. / Bay City, Mich, Jan. 28—Six men adrift on an ice floe were sighted on Saginaw Bay, about half a mile from shore, by residents of Quanicasse City this morning. “Believed they were fishermen missing since the 24th. / Chic. Trib 29-3-4. [D; 281. (Chicago Tribune, January 29, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1909 Feb / Ripper in Berlin / See in Liverpool, June 15. [D; 282. (Ref.???)]

1909 Feb / “Ripper” again in Berlin—see July, 1907. / In one week, 26 women attacked. / W. Dispatch, March 12, 1911, p. 5. [D; 283. (London Weekly Dispatch, March 12, 1911, p. 5.)]

1909 Feb 1 / morning / Shocks in Montreal / D Mail 2-5-5. [IX; 1246. (London Daily Mail, February 2, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Feb 9, etc. / 33 women victims of a Ripper in Berlin. Man arrested, March 8, 1911. / D. Express 9-1-5. [D; 284. (London Daily Express, February 9, 1909, p. 1 c. 5. See: (1911 March 8).]

1909 Feb 13 / Colima, near City of Mexico, violent. / Nature 79-464. [IX; 1247. (Nature, 79-464.)]

1909 Feb 13 / Messina on 12th / violent on 13th at 8 p.m. / Nature 79-464. [IX; 1248. (Nature, 79-464.)]

1909 Feb 16 / [source unidentified], 5-4 / Stabbing outrage / Berlin. [D; 285. (Unidentified source, February 16, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 Feb 18 / N.Y. Sun 21-14-2 / Farm near Arcadia, Ind. Dolly Magart, visiting her sister, Mrs Roy Ruton. Dreamed someone was striking her with a stick. Shrieked—aroused the others—a stick of wood was found at the foot of the stairs. Also he heard a door slam, and saw a man outside the house. Next night girl screamed again—found suffering from a beating and stick found in the room. A note was found. “As I have killed your sisterm now I am satisfied.” [D; 286.1, 286.2. (New York Sun, February 21, 1909, p. 14 c. 2.)]

1909 Feb 19 / Pillville, Cal. / Brilliant lightning but no storm. / U.S.W.B. Rept, Cal section, Feb., 1909. [IX; 1249. (California Section, U.S. Weather Bureau, February 1909.)]

1909 Feb. 21 / Another series of quakes in southeastern Spain. / Sun 22-1-5. [IX; 1250. (New York Sun, February 22, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1909 Feb. 21 / morning / 3 shocks in province of Alicante, Spain. / D. Mail 22-5-6. [IX; 1251. (London Daily Mail, February 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1909 Feb. 21 / Lloyds W. News, 7-4—panic in Berlin. Young man stabbing women; always vanishing in a crowded street. 5 or 6 a day—most of them in daylight. [D; 287. (Lloyds Weekly News, February 21, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1909 Feb. 22 / Met train—observed from southern counties of England ab. 2 hours. / Nature, 80-13 / Denning put various sections of it at from 55 to 25 miles high and moved at rates of 75 to 80 or 90 miles per hour. Drifts was “decidedly to N.W.” Went westerly and then downward. [IX: 1252.1, 1252.2. (Nature, 80-13.)]

1909 Feb 22 / Luminous phe / In C.R. 148-740, paper by M.T. d'Argenlieu upon a luminous phe that was seen at Brest. Towards East-northeast, a dozen degrees above the horizon in the region of Berenice's Hair. / Paris time / in the form of a U / from 7:15 to 9:20 / 7:40-8:05, center of the base passed by Zeta of the Great Bear. / 8:45, under Polaris. 9:20, disappeared in Cassiopeia. [IX: 1253.1, 1253.2. D'Argenlieu, Thierry. "Sur un phénomène lumineux observé à Brest dans la soirée du 22 février." Comptes Rendus, 148 (1909): 740-741.]

1909 Feb 22 / For Parallax / The met Fran[ce] shown against pole star, between Great and Little Bears. / Then in Leo. / L. Nat, June 26, 1909. [IX; 1254. (La Nature, or, La Naturaliste, June 26, 1909.)]

1909 Feb. 22 / Denning says was a Coma Berencid Soit. Seemed to come from there and left a train from there (France). / Nature, March 18, 1909. [IX; 1255. (Nature, March 18, 1909.)]

1909 Feb 22 / near London / 7:38 p.m. / Met came into sight below belt of Orion. / LT 24-13-d. [IX; 1256. (London Times, February 24, 1909, p. 13 c. 4.)]

1909 Feb 22 / At Inwood—shot across sky till it reached central star of Orion's belt. Here, changed course at right angles. / LT—25-12-f. [IX; 1257. (London Times, February 25, 1909, p. 12 c. 6.)]

1909 Feb. 22 / 7:30 p.m. / (2 hours) / Bristol—moved from Monoceros, Canis Minorand Major, and Orion, to over Polaris and Cassiopeia. / Symons Met 44-35. [IX; 1258. (Meteorological Magazine, 44-35.)]

1909 Feb. 22 / France / (Sigma, p. 20) in sky / Nature, 80 / Cosmos / etc. [IX; 1259. ((Sigma, p. 20) in sky / Nature, 80 / Cosmos / etc.)]

1909 Feb 22 / The beam scintillated and pulsated like an aurora. / Nature 80-42. [IX; 1260. (Nature, 80-42.)]

1909 Feb. 23 / up to this date 73 outrages in Berlin. Only one fatal. 3 serious injuries. / Lloyds W. News 28-9-2. [D; 288. (Lloyds Weekly News, February 28, 1909, p. 9 c. 2.)]

1909 Feb. 23 / Date of the Harford Green disap. / See Lloyd's W. News, Feb 28, p. 1. [D; 289. (Lloyd's Weekly News, February 28, 1909, p. 1.)]

1909 Feb. 24 / Fires / Trib, March 1-1-2 / Mysterious fires in the dormitories of the Trenton, NJ, Pennington Seminary. First fire on the 24th and a similar fire on 25th. Supposed pyromaniac in the building. [D; 290. “Fires Arouse Seminary.” New York Tribune, March 1, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Feb. 25 / Nothing in Portadown Express. [IX; 1261.]

1909 Feb. 25 / 3rd in short time / Portadown, Armagh / b. rain / Cambrian Nat. Observer 1910/198 / L.T., March 10, 1909 / See Oct 8, 1907. [IX; 1262. (Cambrian Natural Observer, 1910-198.) (London Times, March 10, 1909.) See: 1907 Oct, (IX; 845); 1907 Oct 8, (IX: 846 & 847); 1909 Oct 8 and 9, (IX; 850); and, 1907 Oct 8-9, (IX: 851 & 852).]

1909 Feb. 26 / London / q. of greatest intensity. Milne calculated it to be 5,000 miles away, in the Pacific. / N.Y. Sun 27-1-6. [IX; 1263. (New York Sun, February 27, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Feb. 27 / 1:50 a.m. / Violent shock / Calabria / Nature 80-15. [IX; 1264. (Nature, 80-15.)]

1909 Feb 27 / From 11:21 a.m. at Havana for forty minutes seismographs registered a q. / Nature 80-15 / At 1:50 a.m. a violent q in Calabria. / At 4:58 p.m. a q of great intensity. At its maximum at 5:36 p.m. recorded in Isle of Wight. [IX; 1265. (Nature, 80-15.)]

1909 Feb 27-March 7 / Snow falling in Alps. / D. Mail 8-7-7. [IX; 1266. (London Daily Mail, March 8, 1909, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1909 Feb. 27 / At Brecon—myst foreigner—unknown language. He wore 4 pairs of trousers and 5 coats. / Lloyds W. News 28-4-2. [D; 291. (Lloyds Weekly News, February 28, 1909, p. 4 c. 2.)]

1909 March-May / The sky obj—England. [D; 292. (Ref.???)]

1909 March / BO / Lloyds W. News, May 17-11-6, 1914 / See if this the Green of th stone spring, ab 1920. / Mr. Harford Green, J.P., owner of a draper's shop, at Stanstead, Essex, having for sake of his health gone to Okehampton (Devon), disappeared from Dartmoor, where gone to take a walk. Said next remembered, was sitting in a club, in Buenos Ayres. Returned and found had ben declared a bankrupt. Said he was prepared to pay 20s on the £ on all liabilities. [D: 293.1, 293.2, 293.3. (Lloyds Weekly News, May 17, 1914, p. 11 c. 6.)]

1909 March 1 / Snow in almost all parts of Portugal. In southern parts where snow had not been seen before there were panics. / D. Mail 3-7-2 / Extreme cold, England, etc. [IX; 1267. (London daily Mail, March 3, 1909, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1909 March 1-4 / Snowstorm western Europe. In England greatest fall in March with one exception (1891). / D. Mail 4-7-1. [IX; 1268. (London Daily Mail, Maarch 4, 1909, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1909 March 1 / Glas. Herald, 9-f / British q. [IX; 1269. (Glasgow Herald, March 1, 1909, p. 9 c. 6.)]

1909 March 8 / Tornado sweeps away town of Brinkley, Arkansas. / D. Mail 10-7-4. [IX; 1270. (London Daily Mail, March 10, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1909 March 8 / Eruption of volc Ngauruhoe, New Zealand. / An. Reg. [IX; 1271. (Annual Register, 1909.) The Tongariro volcano.]

1909 March 10 / [LT], 14-d / Balloon picked up at sea. [IX; 1272. (London Times, March 10, 1909, p. 14 c. 4.)]

1909 March 10 / D. Mail of, 7-4 / Ngauruhoe, a New Zealand volc, in eruption. [IX; 1273. (London Daily Mail, March 10, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.) The Tongariro volcano.]

1909 March 10 / Man buried alive—Look for phe—Leigh, North Uttoxleter, North Staffordshire. [D; 294. (Ref.???)]

1909 March 11 / Strong shocks / Southern Italy, Bulgaria, Caucasas / D. Mail 12-7-5. [IX; 1274. (London Daily Mail, March 12, 1909, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1909 March 13 / Yokohama, Japan / q, severest in 20 years / D. Mail, April 6-5-4. [IX; 1275. (London Daily Mail, April 6, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 March 14 / 7:45 p.m. / Not long after sunset, brilliant meteor and train visible 10 minutes, Cape Town. / Nature 80-248. [IX; 1276. (Nature, 80-248.)]

1909 March 14 / Cape Town / Sun had set but meteor and ribbon of flame 10 minutes against bright sky. / Nature 80/248. [IX; 1277. (Nature, 80-248.)]

1909 March 14 / Coal polt / Lloyd's W. News, 1-4. / In a house at Eccleshall, Staffordshire—for several weeks, coal leaping out of fireplace and smashington windows. Also crockery smashed. [D; 295. (Lloyd's Weekly News, March 14, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1909 March 17 / Explosion near Wallace, Idaho. Attrib to assassin. / NY Times 19-1-4. [IX; 1278. (New York Times, March 19, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.)]

[1909 March 19] / Myst Assault / NY Times, 1909, March 19-1-4. [D; 296. (New York Times, March 19, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1909 March 23 / Corfu, N.Y., near Buffalo / Explosion / Trib 24-5-2. [IX; 1279. “Explosion Shakes Town.” New York Tribune, March 24, 1909, p. 5 c. 2. A boiler explosion.]

1909 March 26 / See 77, 79. / Bright spot west of Picard (moon) / J.B.A.A. 19/376. [IX; 1280. “Lunar Section.” Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 19 (1908-1909): 375-380, at 376-377.]

1909 March 26 / Lloyds W. News 28-4-3 / Lunatic wearing slippers escaped from Brookwood Asylum, near Woking. [D; 297. (Lloyds Weekly News, March 28, 1909, p. 4 c. 3.)]

1909 March 27 / See March 26. / Explosion in sky and fall of stones, 10-11 a.m. / Michoacun, Mexico / Bull Soc Astro de F 23/378. [IX; 1281. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de rance, 23-378.)]

1909 March 29 / Tecuma, in the New Hebrides, swept by a tidal wave / Loyds W. News, Ap 11-18-2. [IX; 1282. (Lloyds Weekly News, April 11, 1909, p. 18 c. 2.)]

1909 March 29 / Cyclone / New Hebrides / NY Trib, Ap. 6-1-3. [IX; 1283. “Tidal Wave Sweeps Island.” New York Tribune, April 6, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.]

1909 March 31 / 3 a.m. / Explosion in Hoboken heard 20 miles. / Trib, Ap 1-3-5. [IX; 1284. “Explosion in Hoboken.” New York Tribune, April 1, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.]

1909 April / Sudden decrease of sunspots / Nature 83-169. [IX; 1285. (Nature, 83-169.)]

1909 [Ap 9] / Mirage / Grimsby / [LT], Ap 9/5/a. [IX; 1286. (London Times, April 9, 1909, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1909 Ap. 9 / Balloon without its 3 passengers arrives near Milan, Italy. / Trib 10-2-5. [IX; 1287. “Three Aeronauts Missing.” New York Tribune, April 10, 1909, p. 2 c. 5.]

1909 April 9 / morning / Powder mill, Paterson, N.J., blows up. / N.Y. Trib 10-3-5. [IX; 1288. “Powder Mill Blown Up.” New York Tribune, April 10, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.]

1909 Ap. 10 / q threw down a mountain in Sierra range, California. / NY Trib 25-1-4. [IX; 1289. “Quake Fells Mountain.” New York Tribune, April 25, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.]

1909 Ap. 10-11 / In Michigan, all over Upper Peninsula, fell in snow a dust “resembling powdered brick or hematite dust." / M.W.R., April, 1909 / I think it says could not been of local origin. [IX; 1290. Wiesner, A. "Red Snow in Michigan." Monthly Weather Review, 37 (no. 4; April, 1909): 156.]

1909 April 11 / Etna / morning / D. Mail 12-5-3. [IX; 1291. (London Daily Mail, April 12, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1909 Ap. 12 / Dense fogs, clouds of dust, and q. / Lima, Peru / D. Mail 13-5-2 / Nothing in B. Ayres Standard. [IX; 1292. (London Daily Mail, April 13, 1909, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1909 Ap 12 / Dispatch from Rome—Etna not in eruption. / NY Trib 13-2-5. [IX; 1293. (New Yor Tribune, April 13, 1909, p. 2 c. 5.)]

1909 Ap 14 / early morning / Newcastle / Natal / Fish shower / An and Mag Nat. Hist 10-3-11. [IX; 1294. (Gudger, Eugene Willis. "More Rains of Fishes." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, s. 10 v. 3 (1929): 1-26.)]

1909 Ap. 16 / Tunnel / In tunnel, near Birmingham, found by a plate-layer, a bullet-pierced, blood-stained jacket. In pocket, a letter, in Spanish: “Revenge and death to all traitors. Decreed by the Grand Council that you die within twenty-four hours of reeiving this notice. London, April 12. Torn envelope: of address only:

Mr. _____

L1, _____

London, S.E.

Chron of 20th / No body found. No admissions of a suspicious kind to Birmingham hospitals. [D: 298.1, 298.2, 298.3. (London Daily Chronicle, April 20, 1909.)]

1909 Ap. 18 / Lloyds W. News, 1-2 / At the Colne and Holme Isolation Hospital on the Meltham Moors, near Hudlesfield, as told in the “Nursing Mirror”—unknown man banging doors and rapping on windows. Policemen and detectives on guard—annoyances continue, but nobody caught. [D: 299.1, 299.2. (Lloyds Weekly News, April 18, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 Ap. 19 / 6:10 a.m. / Colima, Mexico, in eruption. / N.Y. Trib 21-1-2. [IX; 1295. “Colima in Eruption.” New York Tribune, April 21, 1909, p. 1 c. 2. The Colima volcano.]

1909 April 19 / D. Chron of, 5-5 / In home of William Vaughan, head gamekeeper to Admiral Pearson. As told to reporter by Mrs V., objects of the house were flying abut rooms. They had lived there 8 years. Boots and leggings and other things, vanishing and reappearing. Candles jumping from candleticks and standing on end on floor. [D; 300.1, 300.2. (London Daily Chronicle, April 19, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Ap. 20 / 10 p.m. / Met = to Venus at brightest / France / 10 p.m. / It traversed Ursa Major and left train visible to n.e. 2 minutes. / Nature 81/298. [IX; 1296. (Nature, 81-298.)]

1909 Ap. 20 / 59 Lyrids noted at Kasan Observatory. /Nature 81-307. [IX; 1297. (Nature, 81-307.)]

1909 Ap. 20 / Sulphur shower at Marseilles. / Lloyd's W News 25-20-3. [IX; 1298. (Lloyd's Weekly News, April 25, 1909, p. 20 c. 3.)]

1909 Ap. 21 / Tornado / Ohio / N.Y. Trib 22-1-4. [IX; 1299. “Fatal Tornado in Ohio.” New York Tribune, April 22, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.]

1909 Ap. 23 / 5 p.m., violent shock, Lisbon. At Espinho (Vizeu), Portugal, sea rose 30 feet. / D. Chronicle 24-1-4. [IX; 1300. (London Daily Chronicle, April 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1909 Ap. 23 / q. / Lisbon / Cor to D. Mail 29-4-7 writes that he felt concussion in London at 4 p.m. / See Aug. 2. [IX; 1301. (London daily Mail, April 29, 1909, p. 4 c. 7.) See: (Aug 2).]

1909 Ap. 23 / 5 p.m. / Severe qs / Portugal / Nature 80-255. [IX; 1302. (Nature, 80-255.)]

1909 May and June / Slight shocks / Salvador / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1303. (BA 1911-52.)]

1909 May 3 / Slight shock / Panama / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1304. (BA 1911-52.)]

1909 May 3 / 3-year-old son of Bruce Long, of ilkesbarre, dreamed his father, a brakeman, had been killed, about time the father was killed. / N.Y. Sun 6-12-5. [D; 301. (New York Sun, May 6, 1909, p. 12 c. 5.)]

1909 May 6. / 9:25 p.m. / Montreal / Band of pearly light up from moon. About 2 diameters of moon. Up and then hidden behind clouds. / Jour BAA 19/355. [IX; 1305. Adames, H.B. "A Lunar Pillar." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 19 (1908-1909): 355.]

1909 May 7 / Stabber / night / A woman, gave name of Mary Maloneym and a false address. Walked along upper Broadway and, one after another, before caught, stabbed, with a hat pin, 5 men and a women. / N.Y. Sun 8-1-5. [D; 302. (New York Sun, May 8, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1909 May 8 / early morning / North Adams / 2 balloons with searchlights went up. / Sun 9-1-2. [IX; 1306. (New York Sun, May 9, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 May 8 / 7 a.m. / 7:32 a.m. / Strong shocks / Messina / Lloyd's W. News, May 9. [IX; 1307. (Lloyd's Weekly News, May 9, 1909.)]

1909 May 9 / (Aust) / great detonating met / New South Wales / Jour BAA 20/33. [IX; 1308. Gale, W.F. "A Great Detonating Meteor." Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1909-1910): 33-34.]

1909 May 13 / Mars in W quadraline with sun. [IX; 1309. (Confirm.)]

1909 May 14 / afternoon and night / Tornadoes / Kansas and Missouri / N.Y. Sun 15-1-2. [IX; 1310. (New York Sun, May 15, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 May 14, 15 / Magnetic storm reported by Kew Observatory. / Nature 80-376. [IX; 1311. (Nature, 80-376.)]

1909 May 14 / (Cut) / Glasgow / “A long, perfectly straight bundle of lances” of light. Visible some time and steady. Then numerous other lances appeared. / There were auroral arches. / E Mec 89/375. [IX; 1312. (English Mechanic, 89-375.)]

1909 May 15 / 1 p.m. / q. / western Canada / D. Mail 17-7-4. [IX; 1313. (London Daily Mail, May 17, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1909 May 15 / 8:58 p.m. / Blue Hills Observatory, Mass / aurora like big-headed comet / Science, NS, 30-57. [IX; 1314. Palmer, Andrew H. "A Remarkable Aurora Borealis." Science, n.s., 30 (July 9, 1909): 57-58.]

1909 May 15 / Waterbury, Conn. / 8 p.m. / A scourge of fleas “swooped down on the town”. Two hours later they suddenly departed, and an aurora and a luminous cloud were seen. / See July 26, 1908. [IX; 1315. See: 1908 July 26, (IX: 1053 & 1054).]

1909 May 15 / Bloomfield, N.J. / Swarms of insects, said be new there. But, also, said be flying ants. N.Y. Sun 16-5-4. [IX; 1316. (New York Sun, May 16, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 May 15 / 22:17, in the evening / Shock / Manitoba and Saskatchewan / N.Y. Sun 16-1-5. [IX; 1317. (New York Sun, May 16, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1909 May 15 / (Beam) / Comet-shaped luminous mass in sky, said been auroral. / Science, N.S., 30/57 / Blue Hills Observatory, Mass. [IX; 1318. Palmer, Andrew H. "A Remarkable Aurora Borealis." Science, n.s., 30 (July 9, 1909): 57-58.]

1909 May 16 / 10:17 p.m. / Winnipeg and 500 miles westward / Shock / Nature 80-349. [IX; 1319. (Nature, 80-349.)]

1909 May 16 / Vanishing man / Lloyds W. News, 4-3. / An account of several persons who in Reading, Berkshire, had seen a man, about whom there was nothing ghostly, appear and then disappear—“An elderly man, wearing dark clothes: thin, miserable-looking and terribly care-worn, with dark rings round the eyes.” [D: 303.1, 303.2. (Lloyds Weekly News, May 16, 1909, p. 4 c. 3.)]

1909 May 16 / Reading / See May 22. [D; 304. See: (1909 May 22).]

1909 May 17 / 9:15-11:15 a.m. / q of extreme violence registered at Laibach. Estimated 5,625 miles away. / D. Mail 18-7-4. [IX; 1320. (London Daily Mail, May 18, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1909 May 17 / Cardiff Western Mail, 6-1—that at the Admiralty wireless station near Grimsby, one of the staff at 10 p.m., making a tour of inspection, was attacked by two men who sprang from a dark place. The guard arrived but the assailants had disappeared. Police attributed to tramps. [D: 305.1, 305.2. “Suspicious Visitors at Wireless Station.” Cardiff Western Mail, May 17, 1909, p. 6 c. 1.]

1909 May 18 / 10-pound chunks of ice at Uvalde, Texas / Central News Telegram). [IX; 1321. (Ref.???)]

1909 May 19 / Etna, and for several days before, in eruption. / D. Mail 20-5-6. [IX; 1322. (London Daily Mail, May 20, 1909, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1909 May 19 / [source unidentified], 3-4 / Incendiary fires / Chicago. [D; 306. (Unidentified source], May 19, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1909 May 20 / N.Y. Sun, 1-6 / Phantom airship of England told of. [IX; 1323. (New York Sun, May 20, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 May 20 / Strong hot wind at Lynmouth. / Symons 44-92. [IX; 1324. (Meteorological Magazine, 44-92.)]

1909 May 22 / at Hurlingham, England / International balloon race / 14 balloons / D. Mail 22-3-5. [IX; 1325. (London Daily Mail, May 22, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1909 May 22 / Lloyd's W. News, 23-1-5. / Woman named Marie Bouquet, in the village of St. Julien, near Chalon-sur-Saone, poured oil upon self and burned self to death. [D; 307. (Lloyd's Weekly News, May 22, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1909 May 22 / D. Mail of, 3-7 / Wlf seen at Westwood and Brimington, Derbyshire. [D; 308. (London Daily Mail, May 22, 1909, p. 3 c. 7.)]

1909 May 22 / Dublin Daily Express—a woman, unable to speak, arrived at railroad station in Reading. Soon afterward she died. Her arms were elaborated tattooed. Well-dressed—ab 32 years old—nothing learned of her. [D; 309. "A woman on Thursday alighted at Reading Station...." Dublin Daily Express, May 22, 1909, p. 4 c. 5. "A Tattooed Woman." Yorkshire Evening Post, May 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 5. "Tatooed Woman's Death." Belfast Telegraph, May 24, 1909, p. 5 c. 6. Emily Chapman, 25-year-old wife of a soldier at Aldershot, died of a cerebral hemorrhage.]

1909 May 23 / Bright spot west of Picard. / See 1907, 1877, '79. / Jour. B.A.A. 19/376. [IX; 1326. “Lunar Section.” Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 19 (1908-1909): 375-380, at 376. See: (1877, 1879, and 1907).]

1909 May 23 / (gunfire) / ab. 12:55 p.m. / East Devon, between Tiverton and Honiton. Concussions and short intermissions for 15 min. Dr. Davison says that in the Channel, off Weymouth, there was heavy gun-firing at the time. Ho[niton] is 35 miles and T[iverton] 50 miles from W[eymouth]. / Geol Mag 1910-320. [IX: 1327.1, 1327.2. Davison, Charles. “The British Earthquakes of the Years 1908 and 1909.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 315-320, at 320.]

1909 May 24 / Horizontal whirlwind like big snake / [illustration] / Bull Soc Astro de France OMA 23/319. [IX; 1328. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 23-319.)]

1909 May 24 / Excitement in Mexico. An old Indian woman had predicted a tidal wave, but there was none. / N.Y. Sun 25-3-3. [D; 310. (New York Sun, May 25, 1909, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1909 May 25 / Full story of airship told in N.Y. Sun, section III, p. 1, col. 1, May 30. [IX; 1330. (New York Sun, May 30, 1909, s. 3 p. 1 c. 1.)]

1909 May 25 / 11:36 p.m. / Sounds and shocks / Tiverton, Devonshire / Lloyds W. News 30-18-2. [IX; 1331. (Lloyds Weekly News, May 30, 1909, p. 18 c. 2.)]

1909 May 25 / BO / The Dunstable balloon found. [IX; 1332. (Ref.???)]

1909 May 26 / Shocks / Ill, Mich., Wis. / 8:30 a.m. / Violent shocks in New Hebrides. [IX; 1329. (Ref.???)]

1909 May 26 / N.Y. Sun, 6-2 / Highest water known in years in the Rio Grande. See prophecy note (psycho). This coast of Mexico? [IX; 1333. (New York Sun, May 26, 1909, p. 6 c. 2.) See: 1909 May 24, (D; 310).]

1909 May 26 / 8:40 a.m., in Chicago / Also Ind., Iowa, Mich, Wisconsin / q / N.Y. Sun 27-6-3. [IX; 1334. (New York Sun, May 27, 1909, p. 6 c. 3.)]

1909 May 27 / 6 a.m. / Slight shock / Northern Italy / N.Y. Sun 28-3-6. [IX; 1335. (New York Sun, May 28, 1909, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1909 May 27 / morning / Violent shocks / Oneglia, Italy / D. Chronicle 28-1-2. [IX; 1336. (London Daily Chronicle, May 28, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 May 27 / 10 p.m. / Metite struck house occupied by S.F. Farn, San Jacinto Co., Texas. Buried self in ground—not found. / N.Y. Sun 29-2-4. [IX; 1337. (New York Sun, May 29, 1909, p. 2 c. 4.)]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 311-312.]

1909 May 27 / Derby Daily Express of—wolf reported from Eckington, north Derbyshire, where entered a stable and mutilated a dog. Also reported from Woodnook. [D; 311. (Derby Daily Express, May 27, 1909.)]

1909 May 22 / Derby Daily Express / “Birmington folk have got into quite a high fever about a wolf that is supposed to be at large in their neighborhood. [D; 312. (Derby Daily Express, May 22, 1909.)]

1909 May 29 / afternoon / Cyclone / Oklahoma / N.Y. Sun 30-1-6. [IX; 1338. (New York Sun, May 30, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

(1909) May 29 / Texas / Cyclone. [IX; 1339. (Ref.???)]

1909 May 30 / Blanket, Texas / stone meteorite / Pop. Astro 38-359. [IX; 1340. Wylie, Charles Clayton. “Recent Meteoric Falls.” Popular Astronomy, 38 (no. 6;  June-July 1930): 359-360. This is the Blanket meteorite.]

1909 May 30 / Destructive q. / Greece / BA 1911-50. [IX; 1341. (BA 1911-50.)]

1909 June 3 / Strong shocks / Sumatra / 250 people killed. / Tidal wave. / D.M. 10-5-5. [IX; 1342. (London Daily Mail, June 10, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 June 3 / Total eclipse of moon. [IX; 1343. (Confirm.)]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 313-314.]

1909 June 3 / Ghost / ship / D. Chronicle, 1-3 / Steamship Moncenisio, deserted by crew, on way with cargo of pumice stones from Lipari Islands to New York—halted at Palermo. Ac to crew, sounds that made a diabolical row in the hold and pumice stones thrown about by invisible forces. [D: 313.1, 313.2. (London Daily Chronicle, June 3, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1909 June 5 / polt / Began polt phe in home of Mrs Priestley and two dughters in Wyke, near Bradford, Yorkshire—see London D. News. I take from Derby D. Express, June 8. Thuds and chairs and tables dancing. Mrs. P. not a spiritualist. / See 9th. [D; 314. (London Daily News, , ca. June 8, 1909.) (Derby Daily Express, June 8, 1909; not at BNA.) "Animated Furniture." Bradford Daily Telegraph, June 7, 1909, p. 4 c. 3. "Goblin Revels." Bradford Weekly Telegraph, June 11, 1909, p. 3 c. 1-2. ]

1909 June 5 / afternoon / Explosion Cracow—effects 6 miles around—500 houses destroyed or injured. / London Morning Leader 8-1-6. [IX; 1344. (London Morning Leader, June 8, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 June 5 / [LT], 3-f / 7-12-c / Disap. nurse. [D; 316. (London Times, June 5, 1909, p. 3 c. 6.) (London Times, June 7, 1909, p. 12 c. 3.)]

1909 June 7 / Polts / D. News and Bradford D. Telegraph / copied in “Light”, June 19 / Home of Mrs Priestley, almost 80 [years] of age, Bradford, furniture strewn about. Chairs “waltzing. [D; 315. (London Daily News, ca. June 7, 1909.) (Bradford Daily Telegraph, ca. June 7, 1909.) (Light, June 19, 1909.)]

1909 June 8 / Unknown distant q recorded at 6 a.m. at Isle of Wight. Also at Laibach. / D. Mail, 9th. [IX; 1345. (London Daily Mail, June 9, 1909.)]

1909 June 10 / Wheel / Malacca / 146 / (D-265). [IX; 1346. The note copies information from page 265 of The Book of the Damned. "Curious Light Phenomena of the Indian Seas." Scientific American, n.s., 106 (January 13, 1912): 51 & 58.]

1909 June 11 / Strong vertical q and elec. phe / q France / La Nat 37/2/126. [IX; 1347. (La Nature, 37 pt. 2 p. 126.)]

1909 June 11 / 9:15 p.m. / Violent shocks S of France followed by heavy rain storms. / Lloyds W News, 13th. [IX; 1348. (Lloyds Weekly News, June 13, 1909.)]

1909 June 11-12 / Shocks terrify peole at Nice, Cannes, marseilles. / Derby Daily Express, 12th / At time of these shocks in south of France, violent hail and rainstorms and floods. / Depts of Gironde, Lot, Dordogne, Vienne, Gers. [IX: 1349.1, 1349.2. (Derby Daily Express, June 12, 1909.)]

1909 June 11 / q. in Provence / The ground was electrified. / C.R. 149-172. [IX; 1350. Farry, Louis. "Sur le tremblement de terre de Provence (11 juin 1909)." Comptes Rendus, 149 (1909): 170- 172, at 172. "Je signale aussi les phénomènes électriques remarqués par un grand nombre de témoins. Dans les villes, les fils conducteurs de lumière électrique, agités et recevant des pierres tombant des maisons, se touchent et produisent des éclairs éblouissants. Mais il semble bien aussi que, sur beaucoup de terrains, le tremblement de terre produise un phénomène électrique: le sol, violemment froissé, s'électrise, des étincelles jaillissent çà et là, visibles seulement pour ceux qui, par hasard, regardent le sol de très près.... Ces lueurs ont été vues par un grand nombre de témoins."]

1909 June 12 / Violent concussions in France—at the same time =, in Southwest of France, great downpour. Great destruction by lightning. / Jour des Debats 13-3-2. [IX; 1351. (Journl des Debats, June 13, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1909 June 15 / Destructive q / Greece / BA 1911-49. [IX; 1352. (BA 1911-49.)]

1909 June 15, ab. / “Ripper” outrages in Liverpool. [D; 317. [D; 317. (Ref.???)]

1909 June 16 / Somewhat severe shocks / Monmouthshire / Wales / D. Mail 17-5-3. [IX; 1353. (London Daily Mail, June 17, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1909 June 16 / (q and mets) / 2 a.m. / q at Toulon and a number of meteors. / L. Times 17-5-f / See before. [IX; 1354. (London Times, June 17, 1909, p. 5 c. 6.) See: (before).]

1909 June 20 and 21 / mist poeffers / at Donville (Manche) / La Nat Sup, July 10, '09 / On 20th, 10:30 p.m., several persons had heard a violent sound—heard next day at 11 a.m. / on English Channel / no movement of the ground. [IX; 1355. (La Nature Supplement, July 10, 1909.)]

1909 June 24 / shocks and violent detonations at Messina. / Derby D. Express, 25th. [IX; 1356. (Derby Daily Express, June 25, 1909.)]

1909 June 24 / morning / Severest shocks ever at Johannesburg / Derby Daily Express, 24th. [IX; 1357. (Derby Daily Express, June 24, 1909.)]

1909 June 26 / Met that illuminated the whole sky (sic), by Borrelly, at Marseilles, from Pegasus to the Dolphin. / Nature 81-200. [IX; 1358. (Nature, 81-200.)]

1909 June 27 / Chaves Co., New Mexico / 12 bolts of lightning in intervals of one minute striking a house. / Trib 14-3-6. [D; 318. “Lightning Hit House 12 Times.” New York Tribune, July 14, 1909, p. 3 c. 6.]

1909 June 28 / Great fire broke out in the ruins of Messina. / Derby Daily Express, 29th. [IX; 1359. (Derby Daily Express, June 29, 1909.)]

1909 / summer and autumn / Great flights of crossbills visited England and the Continent. / Nature 83-346 / See British Birds, May, 1910. [IX; 1360. (Nature, 83-346.) See: (1910 May).]

1909 July / glb-light. / In E Mec, 90-140, Col. G.T. Plunkett writes that in his home at Wimbledon—fine evening, a luminous thing came into his room, seemed to rest on the back of a chair and then exploded. He heard it but his wife saw and heard it. [D: 319.1, 319.2. (English Mechanic, 90-140.)]

1909 July 6 / Fresh shocks / Riviera / 7 p.m. / and 6:30 a.m. of 7th / D. Mail 8-5-3. [IX; 1361. (London Daily Mail, July 8, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1909 July 6 / Near Weehawken Ferry, 2 boys myst shot. / N.Y. Tribune 7-1-5 / from upon trees of Palisades. [D; 320. “Boys Shot From Ambush.” New York Tribune, July 7, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

1909 July 9 / q's / S of France / Trib 11-1-2. [IX; 1362. (New York Tribune, July 11, 1909, p. 1 c. 2; not found here.)]

1909 July 11 / BO / N.Y. Trib 12-1-2 / Also along tracks of N.Y. Central Railroad for ½ mile. [IX; 1363. “Frogs Rain Upstate.” New York Tribune, July 12, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 July 11 / (frgs) / Gouverneur, near Utica, N.Y. / Thousands of small frogs in a heavy wind and rain storm, covering rails so that the rails were slippery with them. “Covering the sidewalks in Grove street to such extent that walking was difficult.” / 1-2—Trib? / Trib? [IX: 1364.1, 1364.2. “Frogs Rain Upstate.” New York Tribune, July 12, 1909, p. 1 c. 2. “Shower of Frogs.” Watertown Herald, (New York), July 17, 1909, p. 2 c. 5. “A message received at Utica from Gouverneur, N.Y., states that in a heavy wind and rain storm there thousands of small but perfectly formed frogs fell, covering the sidewalks in Grove street to such an extent that walking was difficult. The rails of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg division of the New York Central railroad for half a mile were covered and rendered so slippery that the speed of the trains was materially lessened.”]

1909 July 13 / th stone / (Eng Mec 98/129/col. 3) / Times, July 28-4-c / Mr. Henry Garrett writes from Greenstead rectory by Ongar that in a severe thunderstorm on 13 a meteoric stone fell with a terrific explosion when a few feet from ground, in many fragments, main part weighing 1 lb., 13 oz. Said fall witnessed by his daughters sheltered about 8 yards away. [IX: 1365.1, 1365.2. (English Mechanic, 98-129.) (London Times, July 28, 1909, p. 4 c. 3.)]

1909 July 15 / Destructive q. / Greece / BA 1911-50. [IX; 1366. (BA 1911-50.)]

1909 July 16 / Town of Havari, Greece, destroyed by q. / Felt in Tripoli. / D. Mail 17-5-4. [IX; 1367. (London Daily Mail, July 17, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 July 18 / Great sunspot group appears. / Nature 81-138 / And develops into a n. eye group. [IX; 1368. (Nature, 81-138.)]

1909 July 24 / Metite like Jan. 25, 1918 / Japan = “Stat”. [IX; 1369. See: 1918 Jan 25, (X; 749). This is the Mino meteorite.]

1909 July 28 / Slight shock / Panama / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1370. (BA 1911-52.)]

1909 July 30, 31 / q's and rain ' q's / Mexico / Trib, Aug 1-1-3 / Dispatch, Trib, Aug 4—shocks and heavy rains. [IX; 1371. “Mexico Quakes Again.” New York Tribune, August 1, 1909, p. 1 c. 3. (New York Tribune, August 4, 1909.)]

1909 July 30 / 4:25 a.m. / Half Mexico City destroyed by a q. / Nature 81-166 / To Aug 1, 73 shocks. / Great “tidal wave”. [IX; 1372. (Nature, 81-166.)]

1909 July 30 / morning / Diastrous q's / Mexico / Lloyds W. News, Aug 1-1-3. [IX; 1373. (Lloyds Weekly News, August 1, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1909 July 30 / q and fire elsewhere / q / Mexico City, etc. / 13 shocks in 30 hours. At the same time, a great fire in Osaki, Japan—began 31st, at 4 a.m. / Also a great flood in Manchuria. / 7000 houses submerged. / D. Mail, Aug 2-5-3 / D. Mail, Aug 5-3-7 / 11,000 houses burned in Oskai. (N.M.) [IX: 1374.1, 1374.2. (London Daily Mail, August 2, 1909, p. 5 c. 3.) (London Daily Mail, August 5, 1909, p. 3 c. 7.)]

1909 Aug 1 / Lloyd's W News, 5-2 / Ghost—woman in white—in the Clogheen, Ireland, Workshouse. [D; 321. (Lloyd's Weekly News, August 1, 1909, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1909 Aug 2 / See Aug 17. / ab 2 p.m. / 2 strong shocks at Lisbon as violent as Ap. 23 / D. Mail 4-5-6. [IX; 1375. (London Daily Mail, August 4, 1909, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1909 Aug 3 / morning / Shock, Calabria, preced by rumbling sound. / D. Mail, 4th. [IX; 1376. (London Daily Mail, August 4, 1909.)]

1909 Aug 3 / Glas Herald, 7-b / Argyllshire / q. [IX; 1377. (Glasgow Herald,August 3, 1909, p. 7 c. 2.)]

[1909 Aug 3 / mirage / Rockaway Beach, New York. “Ships Outlined in the Sky.” New York Tribune, August 4,, 1909, p. 1 c. 1. My Note.]

1909 Aug. 5 / Sharp shocks / Brest, France / D. Mail 6-3-7. [IX; 1378. (London Daily Mail, August 6, 1909, p. 3 c. 7.)]

1909 Aug 5 / for ¾ hour / A luminous cloud and zigzag electric discharges in it, at Steglitz-Berlin. / by M.E. Wasmuth / Ciel et Terre 30/415. [IX; 1379. “Aurore Polaire Remarquable” Ciel et Terre, 30 (1909): 415-416. Wasmuth, Ewald. “Über eine merkwürdige Nordlichterscheinung.” Physikalische Zeitschrift, 10 (1909): 707.]

1909 Aug 5 / q / Bretagne / PTS, p. v. 1 (10) / See March 19, 1910. [IX; 1380. (PTS, p. v. 1 (10)???)]

1909 Aug 7, 10, 2 / nova? / In Cygmus / 19 h, 49 m and +36°—46' / Star or unrecorded variable found on plates of these dates by Mr Hinks. Ab 10 mag. After and before, no trace. / Nature 85-22. [IX; 1381. (Nature, 85-22.)]

1909 Aug 8 / flashes of Epsom / Quar Jour Met Soc says were seen in London and othe rplaces in southeast England—find the thunderstorm in north of France, more than 100 miles away. / Jour, N.S., 35-299. [IX; 1382. (Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, n.s., 35-299.)]

1909 Aug 8 / Epson, Surrey / Night “fine and starlight”. Flashes from a radiant point that started in the south and worked around to the southeast. Table of the flashes and their intervals. 251 first hour—75 second. From 10 to 12. / Sym. Met 44-148. [IX: 1383.1, 1383.2. (Meteorological Magazine, 44-148.)[

1909 Aug 8 / Code flashes. / Symons'—for every 5 minutes from 10 to 11:15—16-14-20-31-15-26-12-20-30-18-27-22-14-12-10-21—abrupt fall from 11:15 to 11:50—8-5-3-1-0-1-0. [IX; 1384. (Meteorological Magazine, 44-148???)]

1909 / up to Aug 9 / Perseids / “decided poor” / England / Nature 81-188. [IX; 1385. (Nature, 81-188.)]

1909 Aug 10 / Glas. Herald, 6-h / Thunder. [IX; 1386. (Glasgow Herald, August 10, 1909, p. 6 c. 8.)]

1909 Aug 10 / Comparatively few Pers., England, but fairly numerous in Belgium. / Nature 81-246. [IX; 1387. (Nature, 81-246.)]

1909 Aug 10 / Sun / Spot similar to of Sept 23 / believed to have been seen by John McHarg, of Lisburn / Cosmos 58/532. [IX; 1388. (Cosmos, n.s., 58-532.)]

1909 Aug 10 / White spot on Mars / 90/254 E Mec. [IX; 1389. (English Mechanic, 90-254.)]

1909 Aug 10 / Milan, Italy / balloon up 7 miles—believe be record / Trib 11-1-2. [IX; 1390. “Seven Miles Up In Air.” New York Tribune, August 11, 1909, p. 1 c. 2. “11,800 metres.” (Nature, 90-673. Altitude may have only been 30,350 feet, not seven miles.)]

1909 Aug 11 / [LT], 10-f / Missing balloon. [IX; 1391. (London Times, August 11, 1909, p. 10 c. 6.)]

1909 Aug 11 / bet. 9:05 and 11:50 p.m. / 73 meteors counted at Bristol. / D. Mail 13-3-5. [IX; 1392. (London Daily Mail, August 13, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1909 Aug 12 / Faversham / 9:25 / Met that left a thick trail of deep red. / E Mec 90/66 / p. 94, De[note cut off] writes received 25 obs on it. / p. 139, reproduction of streak in sky mady [by] it, caught be an astronomer who was photographing that part of the sky. / p. 162, Den sky [d[note cut off] 35 accounts. [IX: 1393.1, 1393.2. (English Mechanic, 90-66, 139, 162.)]

1909 Aug 12 / Rich display of Perseids at Bristol. / Nature 81-246. [IX; 1394. (Nature, 81-246.)]

1909 Aug 12 / Wyck Risinglon, Glos. / “A peculiar luminous cloud about 9 p.m. “follows short flashing white meteors. / E Mec 90/68. [IX; 1395. (English Mechanic, 90-68.)]

1909 Aug 15 / 3:30 p.m. / Severe q throughout Central Japan. / Nature 81-225. [IX; 1396. (Nature, 81-225.)]

1909 Aug 16 / 4:45 p.m. / Waterloo, Ill / slight q across river from scene of q of 1811 / Trib 17-1-2. [IX; 1397. “Slight Earthquake in Illinois.” New York Tribune, August 17, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Aug 17 / 2:30 a.m. / See Aug 2. / Shock / Lisbon / Trib 18-3-3 / 2 shocks in Alps—18-3-2. [IX; 1398. [IX; 1398. “Two Shocks in the Alps.” New York Tribune, August 18, 1909, p. 3 c. 2. “Heavy Earth Shock at Lisbon.” New York Tribune, August 18, 1909, p. 3 c. 3.]

1909 Aug 19 / Loc mets / Denmark / See Nov 19, 1903. [IX; 1399. See: 1903 Nov. 19, (VIII: 2028 & 2029).]

1909 Aug. 19 / (Stat) / 3 remarkable meteors in Denmark / 9:17 p.m. / 9:25 / 9:38 / Nature 81-465. [IX; 1400. (Nature, 81-465.)]

[1909 Aug 19] / Myst shooting / Trib, 1909, Aug 19-1-2. [D; 322. “Shot As He Lay in Bed.” New York Tribune, August 19, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.]

1909 Aug 22 / ab. 3 p.m. / E Mec 90/187 / Edwin Holmes writes that several persons had told him that, at Tottenham, a bright star had been seen in the sky. / p. 187, David Packer writes that could not have been Venus, then almost due south, and several months from maximum brilliancy. He says that one of his assistants, a young girl experienced in meteoric observation, had seen at ab 9 a.m.a rapid scintillating, visible 15 or 20 seconds, in western sky. / Venus—Feb 12, 1910. [IX: 1401.1. 1401.2, 1401.3. (English Mechanic, 90-187.)]

1909 Aug 23 / Believed an airship was seen over Reval—thought been Swedish. / D. Mail 24-3-5. [IX; 1402. (London Daily Mail, August 24, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1909 August 23 / First of series / Mars to Dec 8 / “Eridania” / bright on limb. / Mem BAA 20/71. [IX; 1403. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71-72.]

1909 Aug 24 / See 23. [IX; 1404. See: 1909 Aug 23, (IX; 1403). “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71.]

1909 Aug 24 / Moths / D. Mail of, 3-3 / “Moths of great size are swarming in extraordinary numbers in norteast Germany writes our Danzig correspondent. The insects are being brushed from walls and trees and shovelled away like snow. [IX; 1405. (London Daily Mail, August 24, 1909, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1909 Aug. 24-25 / night / strong shocks / Tuscany. / D. Mail 26-5-2. [IX; 1406. (London Daily Mail, August 26, 1909, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1909 Aug 26 / Severest decline of stocks since panic of 1907. / Trib 27-1-6 / Harriman illness? See 28th. [IX; 1407. “Mr. Harriman Resting.” New York Tribune, August 27, 1909, p. 1 c. 6. (New York Tribune, August 28, 1909.) Edward Henry Harriman was a railroad executive, who, at the time of his death on September 9, 1909, owned Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Saint Joseph and Grand Island, the Illinois Central, the Central of Georgia, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Wells Fargo Express Company. His illness resulted in speculators shorting railroad stocks, which actually rose in value after his death. “Discount Death of Magnate.” Los Angeles Herald, September 11, 1909, p. 1 c. 1.]

1909 Aug 26 / (+) / Atlantic City basketball player killed. / No rain? / Trib 27-1-3 / Says that he was killed while practicing before game began, in full view of 1000 spectators. State of weather not mentioned, but—Trib 29—Part IV—5-1—Dispatch from Atlantic City, dated Aug 28, begins, “Atlantic City has been blessed with the most perfect weather that can well be imagined.” [D: 323.1, 323.2. “Lightning Kills Baseball Player.” New York Tribune, August 27, 1909, p. 1 c. 3. “Along the Boardwalk.” New York Tribune, August 29, 1909, pt. 4 p. 5 c. 1-2.]

1909 Aug 27 / See 23. [IX; 1408. See: 1909 Aug 23, (IX; 1403). “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71-72.]

1909 Aug 28, etc. / Sunspot near min. / Extensive group of sunspots though in a period near the minimum. / Nature 81/356 / Min ab 1912. [IX; 1409. (Nature, 81-356.)]

1909 Aug 28 / Glas Herald, 6-c / “Oceanus”. [IX; 1410. (Glasgow Herald, August 28, 1909, p. 6 c. 3; not at BNA.)]

1909 Aug 28, 30 / Slight shocks / Panama / BA 1911-52. [IX; 1411. (BA 1911-52.)]

1909 Aug. 28 / (Cut) / Li-la, China / Said was a distant storm and thunder heard. Lights up from horizon in straight lines, not like lightning—persisted several seconds. / Cosmos, Oct 12, 1909. [IX; 1412. (Cosmos, n.s., 61 (October 12, 1909): 134.)]

1909 Aug 29 / See 23. [IX; 1413. See: 1909 Aug 23, (IX; 1403). “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71-72.]

1909 Aug 31 / 3 p.m. / Slight shock / Rome / D. Mail, Sept 1-3-5. [IX; 1415. (London Daily Mail, September 1, 1909, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1909 Aug, last, about / (Cut) / Leeds / Mars mistaken for an airship. / (?) / Eng Mec 90/18. [IX; 1414. (English Mechanic, 90-18.) “Supposed Airship at Darnall.” Sheffield Daily Telegraph, August 16, 1909, p. 5 c. 4. “There was more excitement at Darnall about 11 o’clock last night than there has been for many a day. Crowds of people gathered together, staring at a brilliant object in the sky, examining it through telescopes, opera glasses, and all sorts of contrivances, and wondering whether it was invading airship from Germany or only another advertising scheme....” “...It happens that the planet Mars is shining with extraordinary brilliancy just now. It is well worth seeing, but it is not an airship. The amateur astronomer made a remark to this effect. The crowd were not altogether convinced. They still clung to the airship theory, and, when they saw the brightness of the object temporarily obscured bv what appeared to be smoke, they preferred to think that the airship was increasing its speed rather than to accept the explanation that cloud was passing in front of the star. But gradually the truth found acceptance, and the admiring crowds dispersed.” Darnall is about 50 kilometres south of Leeds.]

1909 Sept / (Cut) / White spot on Saturn / E Mec 90/283/col 1. [IX; 1416. (English Mechanic, 90-283.)]

1909 Sept. 1/ Mars and moon / Conj. [IX; 1417. (Confirm.)]

1909 Sept 2 / D. Mail, 3-6 / Child in London found myst. stabbed. [D; 324. (London Daily Mail, September 2, 1909, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1909 Sept 3 / (q and cyclone) / Sicily / q and cyclone / Herald 4-11-3. [IX; 1418. (New York Herald, September 4, 1909, p. 11 c. 3.)]

1909 Sept. 5 / Polt / Lloyd's W. News, 18-2. / At Rawdon Baptist College, near Leeds, mysterious raps, and plants removed from tables and windows, by unseen hands. [D; 325. (Lloyd's Weekly News, September 5, 1909, p. 18 c. 2.)]

1909 Sept 8 / (night) / of the object claimed by Tillinghast / Story in Sun, Dec 13-3-1. [IX; 1419. (New York Sun, December 13, 1909, p. 3 c. 1.)]

1909 Sept. 14 / Balloonist disap. / Martinez from Valencia. [IX; 1420. (Ref.???)]

1909 Sept 18 / Another new sunspot and a magnetic storm. / Nature 81-405. [IX; 1421. (Nature, 81-405.)]

1909 Sept. 18 / Mars at shortest distance not op. / E Mec 90/39. [IX; 1422. (English Mechanic, 90-39.)]

1909 Sept. 20 / Mag storm appearing to be accompanied by no auroral phe in U.S. / Symons Met 44/163 / Nature (82) / 81/395 / La Nat 37/2/sup/319 / 38/1/sup/111 / 307 Observatory / (Jour BAA, vol 20) / E Mec 90/234. [IX; 1423. ( Symons Met 44/163 / Nature (82) / 81/395 / La Nat 37/2/sup/319 / 38/1/sup/111 / 307 Observatory / (Jour BAA, vol 20) / E Mec 90/234.)]

[1909 Sept 20 /] 1900 Sept 20 / 7:48, ab / Westwood, Mass / large met / first seen near Beta Ursae Majoris / MWR 9/225. [VIII; 660. Very, Frank Washington. “The Fireball of September 20, 1909.” Monthly Weather Review, 37 (no. 6; June 1909): 225.]

1909 Sept. 20 / (D. Mail), 3-4 / 2 ghosts seen at his home near Chesterfield by Sir George and Lady Sitwell. [D; 326. (London Daily Mail, September 20, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1909 Sept. 22 / Sunspot / E Mec 90/233. [IX; 1424. (English Mechanic, 90/233.)]

1909 Sept 22 / Shocks reported / France / Italy / Greece / no harm / Nature 81-401. [IX; 1425. (Nature, 81-401.)]

1909 Sept. 22 / Shocks / Sicility, Calabria, Greece / D. Mail 23-3-7. [IX; 1426. (London Daily Mail, September 23, 1909, p. 3 c. 7.)]

1909 Sept 23 / [LT], 3-f / qs / Miscellaneous shocks. [IX; 1427. (London Times, September 23, 1909, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1909 Sept. 23 / q and fire / A fire broke out and destroyed town of Bagnara, Calabria. q. shocks this day in the town. / D. Mail 24-3-4. [IX; 1428. (London Daily Mail, September 24, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1909 Sept. 23 / Op. Mars / (Al). [IX; 1429. Opposition of Mars. (Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, 1909.)]

1909 Sept 23 / At Flagstaff, Slipher (?) saw an intensely white spot on Saturn. / Cosmos 58/532 / See Aug. 10 / (Nature 81/405). [IX; 1430. (Nature, 81-405.)]

1909 Sept 25 / The sunspot described in the Astrophysical Journal 1910-26. [IX; 1431. Slocum, Frederick. “The Sun-Spots of September 25, 1909.” Astrophysical Journal, 31 (1910): 26-29.]

1909 Sept 25 / Magnetic storm / article in Nature 81-395. [IX; 1432. (Nature, 81-395.)]

1909 Sept 25 / Open Hudson-Fulton Celebration, N.Y.. / Illuminations / Searchlights. / Cannon. [IX; 1433. (Ref.???)]

1909 Sept 25 / 10:55 / Extraordinary fall of meteors / Hawaii / Herald 26-7-1. [IX; 1434. (New York Herald, September 26, 1909, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1909 Sept 25 / Great aurora / Australia / from 11 to 1 p.m. / Herald 27-11-4. [IX; 1435. (New York Herald, September 27, 1909, p. 11 c. 4.)]

1909 Sept 25 / These sunspots had lasted from Sept 1 to Nov 19 / Nature 83-46. [IX; 1436. “The Sun-Spots of September 25, 1909.” Nature, 83 (March 10, 1910): 46. Slocum, Frederick. “The Sun-Spots of September 25, 1909.” Astrophysical Journal, 31 (1910): 26-29.]

1909 Sept 27 / 3:47 p.m. / Ill., W. Kentucky, and Indiana, and St Louis, Mo / q / Herald 28-3-2. [IX; 1437. (New York Herald, September 28, 1909, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1909 Sept 28 / Mars and moon / Conj. [IX; 1438. (Confirm.)]

1909 Sept 28 / 2 shocks / Siena, Italy / D. Mail 28-5-7. [IX 1439. (London Daily Mail, September 28, 1909, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1909 Sept 30 / Saturn conj with moon. [IX; 1440. (Confirm.)]

1909 Sept 30 / 2 new lines observed by Lowell,on Mars, and Arrhenius. The Destiny of the Stars, p. 225, thinks they were fissures from a quake about this time. [IX; 1441. (The Destiny of the Stars, p. 225.)]

1909 Oct / Polt or elec. boy / Portland, Ore. / [typescript] / Proceedings of the S.P.R., volume 25. [D; 327. ("The Portland, Oregon, Case." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, v. 25 p. 397-399???)]

1909 Oct 3 / Utah and Idaho / 3 sharp and distinct shocks between 7:42 and 7:4[note cut off] p.m. / NY Times 6-1-6. [IX; 1442. (New York Times, October 6, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Oct 3 / Lloyds W News, 2-4 / Strange escape from jail at Nottingham. But the man was a locksmith. [D; 328. (Lloyds Weekly News, October 3, 1909, p. 2 c. 4.)]

1909 / Sunday morn, early, before Oct. 5 / Thud like quake and Mars quiver violently in telescope field. / Jour. Leeds 17/69. [IX; 1443. (Journal Leeds., 17-69.)]

1909 Oct 6 / Remarkable daylight meteor at 9:34 in morning—bright day but seen in Gloucester, Somerset, Devon, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk, and Northampton. / Sci Monthly 2/48 / Nature 81/487. [IX; 1444. (Sci. Monthly???, 2-48.) Denning, William Frederick. “The Meteor in Sunshine, October 6.” Nature, 81 (October 21, 1909): 487.]

1909 Oct. 6 / 9:40 a.m. / In sunshine, a large meteor seen in Central England. / Nature 81-456. [IX; 1445. (Nature, 81-456.)]

1909 Oct 6 / A projection on temrinator of Mars that lasted only ten minutes—by Jarry. Desloges. / Nature 81/498. [IX; 1446. (Nature, 81-498.)]

1909 Oct 6 / Luminous projection on terminator of Mars—by M.R. Jarry-Deslogues. / Cosmos 58/503. [IX; 1447. (Cosmos, s. 4 (n.s.), 58-503.)]

1909 Oct 6 / Large white spot suddenly appeared on Mars, observed by Antoniadi. / Arrhenius, Destiny of the Stars, p. 223. [IX; 1448. Arrhenius, Svante. Destinies of the Stars. New York: Putnam, 1918, 223 & figure 24.]

1909 Oct 6 / 9:30 a.m. / Sun shining. Brilliant meteor in Norfolk, / D. Mail 7-3-4 / S.E. to N.W. / 9:40 a.m. / D.M., Oct 8 / many parts Midlands and s. England. [IX; 1449. (London Daily Mail, October 7, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.) (London Daily Mail, October 8, 1909.)]

1909 (Oct 6) / ab 9:25 / Daylight meteor / Surrey / Symons 44-163. [IX; 1450. (Meteorlogical Magazine, 44-163.)]

1909 Oct. 6 / det met / 9:40 a.m. / Large met in England from Norfolk to Gloucester. Explosion—in towns N.W. of Northampton thought a q. / Nature 81-456. [IX; 1451. (Nature, 81-456.)]

1909 Oct 7 / white spot, Mars. Cor says thinks saw. / E Mec 90/254. [IX; 1452. (English Mechanic, 90-254.)]

1909 Oct. 7 / 6:45 p.m. / Norwood, Mass. / Metite / Science, N.S., 31/index / Then said be false. [IX; 1453. Very, Frank Washington. “Fall of a Meteorite in Norwood, Massachusetts.” Science, n.s, 31 (January 28, 1910): 143-144. Hovey, Edmund Otis. “On the So-Called Norwood Meteorite.” Science, n.s, 31 (February 21, 1910): 298-299. Very, Frank Washington.  “The Norwood Meteorite a Fraud. How Meteoritic Evidence May Be Manufactured.” Science, n.s., 31 (March 18, 1910): 415-418. Loughlin, Gerald Francis. “The Norwood Meteorite (?).” Science, n.s., 31 (March 18, 1910): 418-419.]

1909 Oct 8 / 5 a.m. / 2 distant shocks and booming sound / Dalton, Georgia / N.Y. Times 9-1-6. [IX; 1454. (New York Times, October 9, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Oct 9 / 2 a.m. / Severe shock, island of Shetland. / Nature 81-460. [IX; 1455. (Nature, 81-460.)]

1909 Oct 9 / 2:10 a.m. / Shetland Islands / Shock and sound. Dr. D (Geol. Mag 1910-320) thought may have been thunder which seemed to have been heard the same moment. [IX; 1456. Davison, Charles. “The British Earthquakes of the Years 1908 and 1909.” Geological Magazine, s. 5 v. 7 (1910): 315-320, at 320.]

1909 Oct 9 and Oct 24 / That several persons had seen a body [in the] sky, said been Mars—in daytime, naked eye. / Ciel et Terre 30/572. [IX; 1457. “Mars et Vénus Visibles en Plein Jour et à l'Œil Nu.” Ciel et Terre, 30 (1909): 572.]

1909 Oct 10 / NY Times, 1-6 / Myst shot. Carries bullet 6 weeks without knowing it. [D; 329. (New York Times, October 10, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Oct 11 / See Oct. 6. [IX; 1458. See: (Oct. 6).]

1909 Oct 11 / Hurricane / Florida and Cuba / N.Y. Times 12-1-1. [IX; 1459. (New York Times, October 12, 1909, p. 1 c. 1.)]

1909 Oct 14-15 / Conspicuous white spot on terminator of Mars. / Cosmos 58/503. [IX; 1460. (Cosmos, s. 4 (n.s.), 58-503.)]

1909 Oct 17 / W. spout Descending / Symons Met 45-10 / Lieut G.K. Gandy describes waterspout he saw from R.M.S. “Dunottar Castle”, 39° 57' N; 12° 45' E. A shaft from a cloud. No circular motion visible. “The sea at the base of the spout was whitened as if from a very heavy rain falling on it, the spume rising a considerable height as is observed at the base of waterfalls. / Lasted 20 minutes. / No mass of water seen rising. [IX: 1461.1, 1461.2. (Meteorological Magazine, 45-10.)]

1909 Oct 18 / 9 p.m. / Auroral bands / England / Nature 81/487, 518. [IX; 1462. (Nature, 81-487.)]

1909 Oct 20 / 11:47 p.m. / “Very large” q recorded, Isle of Wight. / Laibach, 21st, at 12:48 a.m. / In India, ab midnight, 20-21st. / D. Mail 22-5-5. [IX; 1463. (London Daily Mail, October 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Oct 20-21 / Unknown “very violent” earthquake, supposed somewhere in the Himalayas, registered at the Parc Saint-Maur Observatory. / Nature 82-30. [IX; 1464. (Nature, 82-30.)]

1909 Oct 20 / D. Mail, 5-5 / Myst fires / Luffness House, East Lothian. / 1909. [D; 330. (London Daily Mail, October 20, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Oct 21 / 7 a.m. / Shock in Sicily. / Vesuvius gave signs of activity. / D. Mail 22-5-5. [IX; 1465. (London Daily Mail, October 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1909 Oct 21 / Vesuvius active. / qs in Italy. / Seismographs in Albany, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio, record a q. / NY Times, 22-1-2. [IX; 1466. (New York Times, October 22, 1909, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1909 Oct 22 / (+) / [LT], 12-b / Aurora / See 22-5-f. Vesuvius active. [IX; 1467. (London Times, October 22, 1909, p. 12 c. 2.) (London Times, October 22, 1909, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1909 Oct 22, 23 / See 23. [IX; 1468. See: 1909 Aug 23, (IX; 1403). “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71.]

1909 Oct 23 / early  / Cape Girardeau, Mo. / In Tenn., Ill, and Ark—the 1811 district. / q / NY Times 24-1-6. [IX; 1469. (New York Times, October 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Oct 25 / See Oct 29. [IX; 1470. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71. See: 1909 Oct 29, (IX; 1471).]

1909 (Oct 28) / Polt / Portland, Oregon / Proc. Soc P. S 25/398. [D; 331. ("The Portland, Oregon, Case." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, v. 25 p. 397-399???)]

1909 Oct 29 / (cut) / “Eridania” seen as a bright projection. / Mem. B.A.A. 20/71. [IX; 1471. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71.]

1909 Oct 29 / Severe q. / Redding and Eureka, California / D. Mail 30-7-3. [IX; 1472. (London Daily Mail, October 30, 1909, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1909 Nov 1, ab. / D. Mail / 2 cases of stabbing or murders by unknown man. [D; 332. (London Daily Mail, (ca. November 1, 1909.)]

1909 Nov. 7 / See Oct 6. [IX; 1473. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1916): 25-178, at 71-72. See: 1909 Oct 6, (IX: 1446, 1447, 1448, & 1452).]

1909 Nov. 9 / See Oct. 6. [IX; 1474. “Section for the Observation of Mars.” Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, 20 (1909): 25-178, at 71. See: 1909 Oct 6, (IX: 1446, 1447, 1448, & 1452).]

[1909 Nov 9] / Hypnotist's subject in N. Jersey, ab. Nov. 9, 1909, not wake up—said heart failure—charged with manslaughter. [D; 333. (Ref.???)]

1909 Nov. 10 / 7:25-9:55 a.m. / Great q recorded at Laibach. Supposed 5,000 miles away. / D. Mail, 11th. [IX; 1475. (London Daily Mail, November 11, 1909.)]

1909 Nov 12-13 / qs and floods / Jamaica. [IX; 1476. (Ref.???)]

1909 Nov 16 / Strong shock / Messina / D. Mail 17-7-7. [IX; 1477. (London Daily Mail, November 17, 1909, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1909 Nov 17-18 / night / Hurricane / Lisbon / D. Mail 19-7-5. [IX; 1478. (London Daily Mail, November 19, 1909, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1909 Nov. 18 / Eruption / Teneriffe / D. Mail 19-7-5. [IX; 1479. (London Daily Mail, November 19, 1909, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1909 Nov 18 / Dispatch of, from Berlin. Traffic patalyzed throughout Germany by heavy snow-storms. / D. Mail 19-7-5. [IX; 1480. (London Daily Mail, November 19, 1909, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1909 Nov. 21 / Lloyd's W. News, 19-3 / Grass-snake, 2 feet long, killed in a London church yard. St. Bartholomew the Great (Smithfield). [D; 334. (LLoyd's Weekly News, November 21, 1909, p. 19 c. 3.)]

1909 Nov 22 / Tornado / Missouri / Ark / Ohio / Ill / Trib 23-3-3. [IX; 1481. “West Storm Swept.” New York Tribune, November 23, 1909, p. 3 c. 3.]

1909 Nov 22 / Trib, 1-6 / Teneriffe / Explosions and eruptions of incandescent matter—flow of lava four miles long. / 24th—increased violence. [IX; 1482. “Four Miles of Lava.” New York Tribune, November 22, 1909, p. 1 c. 6. “Eruption Continues.” New York Tribune, November 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 6. The Tenerife volcano.]

1909 Nov 22 / Eruption / Teneriffe / flames 1500 feet high / NY Times 23-1-6. [IX; 1483. (New York Times, November 23, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Nov 22 / [LT], 14-f / q / South Wales. [IX; 1484. (London Times, November 22, 1909, p. 14 c. 6.)]

1909 Nov 23 / Dispatch / “Last night,” great meteor, Eastern Alabama. Concussion felt. / NY Times 24-1-6 / “Caused consternation. [IX; 1485. (New York Times, November 24, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Nov. 24 / Teneriffe still in eruption but diminishing. / D. Mail 29-7-4. [IX; 1486. (London Daily Mail, November 29, 1909, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1909 Nov 28 / Great powder explosion near Dalkeith. / D. Mail 29-5-4. [IX; 1487. (London Daily Mail, November 29, 1909, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1909 Dec 5 / Lloyd's W. News, 1-3. / At Whickham, a West Tyne village, in the home of a miner, a youthful-looking specter which quickly took on the appearance of an old man. [D; 335. (Lloyd's Weekly News, December 5, 1909, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1909 Dec 10 / 1:24 a.m. / Slight shock / Ottawa / D. Mail 11-5-7. [IX; 1488. (London Daily Mail, December 11, 1909, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1909 Dec 10 / 9:10 a.m. / Destructive q / island of Guam / BA 1911-45. [IX; 1489. (BA 1911-45).]

1909 Dec 12 / 7:15 p.m. / Fire Island, NY / Wm. Leach of the Fire Island lifesaving station says heard sound like buzzing of a motor in sky. Convinced not wild geese. Not many airships around New York this date. / Trib 13-1-5. [IX; 1490. “Airship or Geese?” New York Tribune, December 13, 1909, p. 1 c. 5.]

[1909 Dec 13. Wrong date. See: 1908 Dec 13, (IX; 1491).]

1909 Dec 15 / Crowds watching Venus at noon. / (Rome) / Sun 16-1-6. [IX; 1492. (New York Sun, December 16, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Dec 18-23 / Volc eruption / Teneriffe / An. Reg. [IX; 1493. (Annual Register, 1909???)]

1909 Dec. 20 / (1 a.m.) / That Immigration Inspector Hoe reported having seen at Boston “a bright light passing over the harbor and came to the conclusion that it was an airship of some kind. / Trib. 21-3-4. [IX; 1494. (New York Tribune, December 21, 1909, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1909 Dec 22 / (1) / Trib, Dec 23-1-6 / That “a mysterious airship had appeared over town of Worcester, Mass, “sweeping the heavens with a searchlight of tremendous power. It hovered over the city and then disappeared. It returned 2 hours later. “Thousands thronged the streets to watch the msyerious visitor. It hovered a while and then again disappeared. Someone who lived in Worcester had invented or had said he had invented an aeroplane. He was absent from his home at the time. [IX: 1495.1, 1495.2. (New York Tribune, December 23, 1909, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1909 Dec 23 / (Trib, 24th) / Reported from Boston—6 p.m., passed over Lynn. “The searchlights shot across the skyline. “As it flew away to the north, queries began to pour into the newspaper offices and the police stations regarding the remarkable visitation. Mr. Tillinghast of Worcester was interviewed. He would not deny that he had been in the air, night of the 23rd. / It is said that an hour and a half after the visitation to Boston an airship with a powerful searchlight had been seen in Williamantic, Conn.” That it had hovered over the town ab 15 minutes. [IX: 1496.1, 1496.2, 1496.3. (New York Tribune, December 24, 1909.)]

1909 Dec 23 / Persian Gulf / Lumps of ice that fell on H.M.S. “Fox”, as told in The Field, July 24, 1915, by the Rev. Warrington Stock, Chaplain of the vessel. One of them 4½ by 3½ by 1½ inches. “There was nothing round or egg-shaped about these extraordinary fragments of ice.” There were different layers of ice of varying shades of blue and white. [IX: 1497.1, 1497.2. (Field, July 24, 1915; not at BNA.)]

1909 Dec 24 / Chaos obj. First seen 8:30 p.m. Rose from northeastern horizon and slowly moved south until 8:50—turned around and retaced, disappearing whence came at 9:02 p.m. Sigmund Rigel, a well-known contrib to [note cut off] / E Mec 104-71. [IX: 1498.1, 1498.2. (English Mechanic, 104-71.)]

1909 Dec 26 / great storm / New England coast. [IX; 1499. (Ref.???)]

1909 Dec. 31 / (+) / (Huntington, W.Va.) / “Three huge lights of almost uniform dimensions appeared in the early morning sky in this neighborhood toda. Joseph Green, a farmer, declared that they were meteors which fell on his farm. An extensive search of his land by others who saw the lights was fruitless, and many persons believe that an airship sped over the country. / NY Trib, Jan 1-2-4, 1910. [IX: 1500.1, 1500.2. (New York Tribune, January 1, 1910, p. 2 c. 4.)]