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192- / Mamie Stuart disap—Swansea / again thought seen—this time in India / Sunday Express, 1923, Feb. 11-9-3. [D; 936. (London Sunday Express, February 11, 1923, p. 9 c. 3.) “Mamie Stuart Mystery.” Nottingham Evening News, July 5, 1920, p. 1 c. 6. “Grisly find solved old mystery.” South Wales Echo, (Cardiff), November 26, 2001. In 1961, a sawn-up skeleton was discovered in a lead mine, in Gower, and determined to be the remains of Mamie Stuart, who had disappeared before Christmas of 1919.]

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192- / Feb / Naked body / Feb. 6, 1914. [D; 937. See: (1914 Feb 6).

192- / Feb / A naked man identified / Feb. 10, 1906. [D; 938. See: 1906 Feb 10, (D; 5).]

1921 Feb / Naked girl / Dec. 16, 1906. [D; 939. See: 1906 Dec 16, (D; 68).]

192- / Feb 27 / Petersfield case / another naked body, but her clothes scattered and found / Oct 18, 1864. [D; 940. See: 1864 Oct 18, (A; 444).]

1922 Feb / Bodies—see Johnstown murders, Feb 4, 1892. [D; 941. See: 1892 Feb. 4, B: 1251, 1253, & 1254).]

1920 Feb 21 / Nude / July 3, 1920. [D; 942. See: (1920 July 3).]

192- / Feb / Petersfield man / naked body woman in field / Oct. 18, 1864. [D; 943. See: 1864 Oct 18, (A; 444).]

192- / Feb / Naked man / Jan 11, 1894. [D; 944.1. See: 1894 Jan. 11, (C: 155 & 156).]

192- / Feb / Coal polt / March 14, 1909. [D; 944.2. Pabst: “from Box E.” See: 1909 March 14, (D; 295).]

192- / Feb., etc. / Hornsey case / Another coal polt, March 14, 1909. [D; 944.3. Pabst: “from Box E.” See: 1909 March 14, (D; 295).]

192- / May / Stab. / See Aug 17, 1913. [D; 944.4. Pabst: “from Box E.” See: (1913 Aug 17).]

1920:

1920 / Globe to June 5. [D; 945.]

1920 / ab. the dates are / Feb 1—stabbings. / July 1—trains / Aug 20—Thames, drownings / Dec and 1921—animal diseases / 1921—Ap. 24—hair / 1921—Ap-July—ships / 1922—Jan—gas / Ap 16—stabbing. [D; 946. (Refs.???)]

1920 / Have D. Mirror to Ap., 1921, but N.G. [D; 947.]

1920 / H H / East Barnet, Herts. / See Dec. 26, 1926. [D; 948. See: (1926 Dec 26).]

1920 / Vacant house, at Portslade, near Brighton / See July 4, 1922. [D; 949. See: (1922 July 4).]

1920 / Phe-house in Lymm, near Warrington, Chesire / See Sept 19, 1926. [D; 950. See: (1926 Sept 19).]

1920 / Stigmatic girl of Woonsocket, R.I. / See March 25, 1928. [D; 951. See: (1928 March 25).]

1920 / H.H. / Kingston, England / See 1909. [D; 952. See: 1909, (D: 262).]

1920 / Mys house / Chiswick / See Jan 28, 1925. [D; 953. See: (1925 Jan 28).]

1920 / Evil Eye / Kalamazoo, Mich. / See July 18. 1929. [D; 954. See: (1929 July 18).]

1920 / Robberies, Barberton, Ohio. / See Sept 25, 1927. [D; 955. See: (1927 Sept 25).]

1920 Jan / Nude man of Cardiff again / See Jan 2, 1921. [D; 956. See: (1921 Jan 2).]

1920 Jan / Sleep. sickness = encephalitis lethargica. [D; 957.]

1920 Jan-July / Jupiter and Saturn—Leo / Aug, to Aug 1921—with Saturn in Leo-Virgo / Both from July 1919 to Aug., 1921—or Leo-Virg. [X; 1014.2. (Ref.???)]

1920 / ab. Jan. 1 / “Black Magic in Bordeaux.” / Thomsons W. News, Jan 10-9-4. [D; 958. (Dundee Weekly News, January 10, 1920, p. 9 c. 4; not @ BNA.) “Miraculous Medals.” Nottingham Evening Post, January 10, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.]

1920 Jan 2 (night) and 3 / Jan. 2-10, etc., q and deluge / D. Mail of 8th / Great q in State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Followed by torrential rains and a deluge in which hundreds of cattle were drowned and in which several towns were flooded. The water that flooded down the River San Francisco was blacked with sulphurous matter which killed the fish in it. [X: 1015.1, 1015.2. (London Daily Mail, January 8, 1920.)]

1920 Jan 3 / evening / 9:45 p.m. / other brief at 10:25 p.m. / Daily Chronicle 6-7-3 / Shocks around Mexico City—sea disturbances off Vera Cruz. / Chronicle, 8th—1,000 dead. A dozen villages in ruins. [X; 1016. (London Daily Chronicle, January 6, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.) (London Daily Chronicle, January 8., 1920.)]

1920 Jan. (3 / Globe, 3-2) / Myst pres near Ripley. [D; 959. (London Globe, January 3, 1920, p. 3 c. 2; not found here, possibly “fires” in London Globe, January 5, 1920, p. 1 c. 2; eight in five weeks.)]

1920 Jan 3-4 / night / 11:28 to 12:21 / Ev. Standard, 5th / Most pronounced q, believed be in S. Amer., recorded in Washington. / News to Jan 18. [X; 1017. (London Evening Standard, January 5, 1920.)]

1920 Jan 4 / The People, 10-2 / Reported from Nice, France. Tomb of a woman named Cotte broken into and the body taken out and burned. Supposed to be the work of a madman. [D; 960. (People, London, January 4, 1920, p. 10 c. 2.; not at BNA.)]

1920 Jan 8 / Violent eruption near Cordoba, Vera Cruz, Mexico. / D. Express 10-1-6 / 4,000 dead with this and q's. [X; 1018. (London Daily Express, January 10, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 10 / D. Chronicle, 3-6 / A man in Cardiff, naked to the waist, wearing a cloak of theatrical appearance, springing out and scaring women of Cardiff. / See Jan 31. [D; 961. (London Daily Chronicle, January 10, 1920, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 11 / W. Dispatch / Loss memory man—English—Lambertville, New Jersey. [D; 962. (London Weekly Dispatch, January 11, 1920.)]

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1920 Jan 13 / Polt / Glasgow Herald, 12-d / Aberdeen / Home of Alexander Urquhart. Thumping or hammering sounds. The house shook, dishesrattled and articles of furniture were moved from their positions. Night of the 12th, spiritualists held a seance and, it is said, members of the family were put in commmunication with deceased friends. [D: 963.1, 963.2. (Glasgow Herald, January 13, 1920, p. 12 c. 4.)]

1920 Jan 6 / D Chronicle 16-5-6 / Spiritualist[s] say that through a control they learned that Ghost of Urq's father. [D; 964. (London Daily Chronicle, January 16, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 10 / Polt / Conventional explanation disregards violence of shocks. [D; 965. (Ref.???)]

1920 Jan. 8 / Polt / Ev. Standard, 11-3 / Home of Mrs and Mrs Urquhart and 4 children, No. 1 Gordon-place, Aberdeen. From 10 o'clock, night of 6th, until 7, next morning, house shook, sashes rattled, knockin on the walls. (See year 1888.) Bed in which lay an invalid boy of 9 years of age was raised and dropped with a bang. A neighbor named Grant, standing with arms on the bed rail, was raised with the bed. House in charge of the police: knocking continues. [D; 966.1, 966.2. (London Evening Standard, January 8, 1920, p. 11 c. 3.) See: (1888).]

1920 Jan 8 / Globe, 2-2 / Urquhart phe around bed of 9-year-old son, who was an invalid. Said that a neighbor named Grant, standing with arms on rail of bed, and bed and he were levitated. / In 12-6-3, said that ab. 20 years before, the occupant of a blacksmith's workshop on 1st floor of this house had disappeared. Months later his body, the hand clutching a revolver, was found in a wood. [D; 967.1, 967.2. “Haunted House Din.” London Globe, January 8, 1920, p. 2 c. 2. “Experts' Hunt for Ghost.” London Globe, January 12, 1920, p. 6 c. 3.]

1920 Jan 6 / Chronicle—14-7-6 / Spiritualists held seances there but could establish no communications. [D; 968. (London Daily Chronicle, January 14, 1920, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan / Aberdeen phe / London D. Express, Jan 9-5-1 / Things rise in air in presence of police. Child['s] bed so rose and a toy. Said that rappings on the wall when four-year-old son of Urquhart, was present. [D; 969. (London Daily Express, January 9, 1920, p. 5 c. 1.)]

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1920 Jan 10 / D. News of—that the Aberdeen ghost had been “laid”. Nothing but a piece of wood that the wind had been knocking against the house. [D; 970. (London Daily News, January 10, 1920.)]

1920 Jan 10 / D. News, 5-6—“Aberdeen ghost “laid”. Prosaic explanation of strange tappings. Said that supports of a telephone pole near the house and in a wind rapped against the house. [D; 971. (London Daily News, January 10, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 6 / Aberdeen phe begins—Daily Chronicle 8-7-5—began 10 p.m. under bed of invalid boy, aged 9—bed raised and banged down. House shook—rappings all night. 7 policemen in the house. / Chronicle 9-7-6. / Urquhart demobilized soldier employed as a laundry van driver. Police inspector and 6 constables in house all the time—completely baffled. Inspector's official report said saw bed rise 4 inches off floor and heard rappings. [D: 972.1, 972.2, 972.3. (London Daily Chronicle, January 8, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.) (London Daily Chronicle, January 9, 1920, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 12 / San Joaquin (Vera Cruz), town of 3000 inhabitants, destroyed by q. in the morning. / D. Chron.—15-1-1. [X; 1019. (London Daily Chronicle, January 15, 1920, p. 1 c. 1.)]

1920 Jan 13 / [LT], 13-d / Leader / q's / England. [X; 1020. (London Times, January 13, 1920, p. 13 c. 4.)]

1920 Jan. 14 / D. Mail of, 5-7 / At Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, “moans, groans, and mysterious knockings”. Said that a week before, a human skeleton been found in a pile of rubbish. [D; 973. (London Daily Mail, January 14, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Jan 14 / BO / Globe, 3-2 / Man found wandering near Romford; unable to give account of himself. Sent to the Workhouse. Finally remembered partly, and went away. [D; 974. “Mystery Man Hoax.” London Globe, January 14, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.]

1920 Jan 14 / See May 15, 1922. / Romford / col / Oct 16, 1921. [D; 975. See: (1922 May 15), and, 1921 Oct. 16, E; 141).]

1920 Jan 16 / Sunset met / 4:50 p.m. / ab. sunset / Over north London, brilliant meteor left a train estimated two miles long, and persisted 5 minutes. / D. Express 17-1-4. [X; 1021. (London Daily Express, January 17, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Jan 16 / 4:50 p.m. / London, Eastern part of Eng, fireball. / Nature 104-545 / Diss, Norfolk, streak—15 minutes (p. 576). [X; 1022. (Nature, 104: 545, 576.)]

1920 Jan 16 / [LT, 9-f / Body found near Lyme Regis. [D; 976. (London Times. January 16, 1920, p. 9 c. 6.)]

1920 Jan 16, etc. / Vision of Virgin in trees at Novfant, near Nancy, France. / Liverpool Echo, Jan. 20. [D; 977. (Liverpool Echo, January 20, 1920.)]

1920 Jan 19 / D. Mail, 7-5 / WOman found dead in London, from wounds, and clothes smouldering. [D; 978. (London Daily Mail, January 19, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 Jan 20-21 / midnight / Midland Station, Nottingham—a woman attacked and wounded in throat and cheek by a man, described as a “tall man”. / London Globe. [D; 979. “Another Tall Man.” London Globe, January 21, 1920, p. 9 c. 1.]

1920 Jan 22 / Jour des Debats, 3-3 / Apparitions of the Virgin—village of Novéani, near Metz. [D; 980. (Journal des Debats, January 22, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1920 Jan 23-24 / night / Severe shock / Vancouverm B.C. / D. Chronicle 26-1-4. [X; 1023. (London Daily Chronicle, January 26, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Jan 24 / ab 11 p.m. / Severe q. / Washington and B. Columbia / W. Dispatch 25-1-3. [X; 1024. (London Weekly Dispatch, January 25, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 Jan 24 / Globe, 9-4 / At Rochester, night of 23rd, a dockyard worker, named Benjamin Thompson, poured paraffin uopn himself and set himself alight. At the hospital, before he died, he said: “I don't know why I did it.” / See March 24. [D: 981.1, 981.2. (London Globe, January 24, 1920, p. 9 c. 4.) See: 1920 March 24, (D; 1053).]

1920 Jan 26 / D. Mail, 7-4 / Man in Wolverhampton 5 times arrested for crimes of a “double”, who went under his name. [D; 981. (London Daily Mail, January 26, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

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1920 Jan 26 / Polt / invalid / D. Mail, 5-3 / Phe at Blackfield poultry farm, Hertford, Hertfordshire, jome of Mr. Arthur J. White. Rappings and said that communication been established with the rapper. Phe only in the presence of daughter Dorothy, aged 16. Said that upon one occasion she saw a form in flowing draperies; a largish head with pear-shaped eyes, a square nose and no mouth. The girl was terrified, and by means of rappings got the thing to promise not to appear before her again. However—“We quite enjoy it,” said Mr. White. [D: 983.1, 983. (London Daily Mail, January 26, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Feb. 3 / Polt / Ev Stand, 11-1 / Home of Mrs White, poultry farm in Brichendon, near Hertford—rappings heard. Investigated by Rev. A. Bayfield, member of Soc. P.R. Said in his opinion, the girl, Dorothy White, an invalid, had made the sounds, herself, though very likely unconscious of so doing. Ev. Standard reporter asked her what she thought of this explanation. “I am as convinced as I am that I stand here, that I have not caused those rappings. [D; 984.1, 984.2. (London Evening Standard, February 3, 1920, p. 11 c. 1.)]

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1920 Jan 30 / (D. Mirror), 2-1 / White Farm spook interviewed by D. Mirror reporter, by rappings—He asked: “Will you send a message to mortals through D. Mirror?” “Tell them they are fools. Spook in another message spelled “pencil” as pensil”. Then when an investigator played on mandoline, “Swanee River,” he hammered a tune. [D: 985.1, 985.2. (London Daily Mirror, January 30, 1920, p. 2 c. 1.)]

1920 Jan / In various accounts of phe, in the Hertfordshire Mercury, said that at first there were loud sounds; and that then, the idea of communicating having occurred, the sounds came in Morse Code. The Girl's brother Norton, while had been an instructor of  the Morse Code, in France. Among others who investigated and believed the rappings were of occult source, were Councillor Robert Searles, 99 Ware Road, Hertford. The girl went to bed and then the rappings were heard. Several comments upon the coarse language of some of the messages. The girl was suffering with a throat ailment, and was expecting to go to a hospital for an operation. Nevertheless could not be considered an invalid, and enjoyed the excitement. / The first sounds were so violent that the house shook, at times. Story not at all satisfactory that any witnesses in the room when the raps occurred. Stated, issue Jan 24, that girl in bed in her room, and Councillor Searles and others outside this room, where raps occurred. Then someone offered to give £5 to a hospital if the phe occur with no member of the family in the house. No more heard of the case. [D: 986.1 to 986.6. (Hertfordshire Mercury, ca. January 1920.) (Hertfordshire Mercury, January 24, 1920.) “Mystery of Morse Code Ghost.” Dundee Evening Telegraph, February 3, 1920, p. 1 c. 5. The phenomenon was later explained as Dorothy White's learning of Morse Code from her brother.]

1920 Jan 27 / At Meudon, near Paris, two observation balloons broke cables and drifted away. One soon fell deflated. Others went on. / Ev. Standard 28-3-2. [X; 1025. (London Evening Standard, January 28, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Jan. 28 / Hair / See Feb. 7 / Night, at Dover, a girl named Wenborn was asked a direction by a soldier. Shortly afterward found that a quantity of her hair., which she wore loose, was cut off. / To me not seem a relation. / D. Mirror—30-2-1. [D; 987. (London Daily Mirror, January 30, 1920, p. 2 c. 1.) See: 1920 Feb. 7, (D; 1010).]

1920 Jan 29 / Time of White farm Morse Code spook, was talk of Morse Code messages from Mars. / D. Mirror, 29th. [D; 988. (London Daily Mirror, January 29, 1920.)]

1920 Jan 30 / BO / Robert Gillman, aged 7, of Phillips Marsh, Bristol, missing. / The People, Feb. 15-5-4 / His body, naked except for boots and stockings, found in a Bristol canal. Serious injuries to head. [D; 989. (The People, February 15, 1920, p. 5 c. 4; not at BNA.)]

1920 Jan 30 / Dead body of a woman named Copperwaite, head almostsevered from body, found in a field near Northampton. Nearby, her husband, Frank C., unconscious, with wound in throat. / Globe 31-6-3. [D; 990. (London Globe, January 31, 1920, p. 6 c. 3.)]

1920 Jan 31 / Thomson's W. News, 7-2 / “Mystery man” in cloak, of Cardiff, arrested. / Albert Clarke (28), 136 Craddock St., Cardiff. [D; 991. (Dundee Weekly News, January 31, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Jan 31 / night / Ev. News, Feb 3-5-7 / Young woman walking along Harrow-road, W., felt a sharp pain in side—took little notice of it. Afterward found been stabbed with a sharp instrument. / Other parseons about at the time—no idea who assailant was. [D: 992.1, 992.2. (London Evening News, February 3, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Feb / Nude / Woman and neatly folded clothes / Sept 2, 1922. [D; 993. See: (1922 Sept 2).]

1920 Feb. / Nude / See July 3, 1920. [D; 994. See: (1920 July 3).]

1920 Feb / The Great Crosby cases / Verdict that the 2nd mad man had killed the 1st girl”. / Ev. Standard 20-7-2. [D; 995. (London Evening Standard,February 20, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb / Sleeping Sickness / See Feb., 1921. [D; 996. See: (1921 Feb.)]

1920 Feb / W / Liverpool / Cases, where a man connected with, found dead, like the Comber case. More Liverpool deaths, Dec 24 and March 22. [D; 997. See: (1920 March 22), and, (1920 Dec 24).]

1920 Feb 1, ab / (Hair) / Globe 19-7-1 / At Hawkhurst, a girl, Ethel Reynolds, had her hair cut off. [D; 998. (London Globe, February 19, 1920, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1920 Feb 1 / J. des Debats, 3-4 / Sleeping sickness / France / 17-3-4. [D; 999. (Journal des Debats, February 1, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.) (Journal des Debats, February 17, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb. 3 / Body of girl, been murdered, found in a field near Great Crosby. / Ev. Standard 7-7-1. [D; 1000. (London Evening Standard, February 7, 1920, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1920 Feb. 3 / [LT], 14-d / Comet. [X; 1026. (London Times, February 3, 1920, p. 14 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb 3 / Ev. Standard, 11-1 / The White farm phe. [D; 1001. (London Evening Standard, February 3, 1920, p. 11 c. 1.)]

1920 Feb. 4 / 6:14 p.m. / Great met / Eng / Nature 104-642 / See Feb 3, 1873. [X; 1027. (Nature, 104-642.) See: 1873 Feb 3, (IV: 1154 to 1159).]

1920 Feb. 4 / Great fireball in Eng. and in India—but in opposite directions. / Nature 105/105 / 104/642. [X; 1028. (Nature, 105-105.) (Nature, 104-642.)]

1920 Feb 4 / ab 18 h / Large bolide 4 times size of Jupiter passed between Sirius and Orion from East to West. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1920-424 / See Feb 4,—1873? [X; 1029. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-424.) See: (1873 Feb 4).]

1920 Feb 4 / Naini Tal (India) / detonating meteor / Bull Soc Astro de F., 1920-340 / From West to East. At 18 h. [X; 1030. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-340.0]

1920 Feb. 4 / Ev. News, 7-7 / 6 fatal cases of sleeping sickness in Paris. [D; 1002. (London Evening News, February 4, 1920, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1920 Feb 4 / Body found in Glasgow park—face disfigured. / Ev. News, 5-1-3 / Pockets ripped. Boots missing. [D; 1003. (London Evening News, February 5, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 Feb. 5 / Glasgow case, in D. Mirror of 5th, described as sixth murder mystery of the year”. [D; 1004. (London Daily Mirror, February 5, 1920.)]

1920 Feb. 5 / Ev. Standard, 10-2 / Mystery not solved of body of a man found in Queen's Park Recreation Grounds. [D; 1005. (London Evening Standard, February 5, 1920, p. 10 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb. 6 / signals / D. Chronicle of—Dr. Humbert Bianchi, of Milan, that in 1905, "I noticed almost nightly that between midnight and a quarter to one, our telephone, inserted in a magnetic detector, and the Morse, inserted on coherers, were registering rapid, rhythmical signals, which could not be deciphered. [X: 1031.1, 1031.2. (London Daily Chronicle, February 6, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 6 / D. Mirror, 3-2 / Glasgow man identified as Henry Senior, aged 35, lived at Govan-hill. [D; 1006. (London Daily Mirror, February 6, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb. 7 / Signals / Telephone disturbances / March 12, 1906. [X; 1032. See: 1906 March 12, (IX; 186).]

1920 Feb 7 / Signals / See Index, "Signals". [X; 1033. See: (Index, Signals).]

1920 Feb / "Anhirty" met-train / Dec 11, 1875. [X; 1034. See: (1875 Dec 11).]

1920 Feb 7 / signals on telephone, time of aurora / Aug 4, 1882. [X; 1035. See: (1882 Aug 4).]

1920 Feb 7 / signals answered / (?) / Aug 3, 1814. [X; 1036. See: (1814 Aug 3).]

1920 Feb 7 / Signal answered / ? / Aug 15, 1892. [X; 1037. See: (1892 Aug 15).]

1920 Feb 7 / On Mt Africa, near Dijon—1,000,000 candle power. / D. Mail, Oct 31, 1921 / Signal—see Mt Wash. / The lighthouse signals / Lantern of the largest lighthouse in world, cast a beam 200 miles, to be erected. [X; 1038. (London Daily Mail, October 31, 1921.) See: 1892 Aug 15 and 17, (VII; 663).]

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1920 Feb 7 / Marconi interview was published in D. Mail. I get it from Liverpool Echo, Jan 27—"We occasionally get very queer sounds and indications, which might come from somewhere outside the earth. We have had them in both England and America. We have also noticed that in these interruptions some letters occur with much greater frequency than others. The letter 'S' (three dots in the Morse Code) is one of these." [X: 1039.1, 1039.2. (Liverpool Echo, January 27, 1920.)]

1920 Feb / Said in W. Dispatch, Oct 9, 1921, that to produce electric magnetic waves 150,000 metres in length require about 50 square miles of aerial system elevated at a great height. [X; 1040. (London Weekly Dispatch, October 9, 1921.)]

1920 Feb 7 / Signals / See Aug 15, 1892. / Mars op. [X; 1041. See: (1892 Aug 15).]

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1920 Feb. 7 / In the Sydney Morning Herald of 7th, little more—that Mr. Fisk had, at Wahroonga, received signals "with sufficient uniformity to bear the appearance of messages, but absolutely unintelligible" and of a source that was a mystery. [X; 1042. "Wireless Mystery." Sydney Morning Herald, February 7, 1920, p. 13 c. 7.]

1920 Feb. 9 / Marconi / See Jan 28. / D. Mail of / That unknown wireless signallers had been heard in Australia. Mr . Fisk, director of the Australasian Wireless Service, said in Sydney, that experienced operators in ydney had received many signals in groups of dots and dashes representing the letter "G". [X: 1043.1, 1043.2. (London Daily Mail, February 9, 1920.) See (Jan 28).]

1920 Jan 28 / Marconi / D. Mail / Sig. Marconni tells of mysterious sounds received upon setting up a special wave-length/ "The sounds seem very persistent. There are often three short raps that would be interpreted in Morse by the letter S, but there are sounds also that would stand for other letters." / See Feb. 9. [X: 1044.1, 1044.2. (London Daily Mail, January 29, 1920.) See: (Feb 9).]

1920 [Feb] / Marconi signals / See Tesla, ab. Jan 10, 1901. [X; 1045. See: 1901 Jan 10, etc., (VIII; 696).]

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1920 Feb 8 / W. Dispatch, 9-3 / Signals since Feb 4, by operators in Sydney, N.S.W. Ac to Mr Fisk, of wavelengths of 80,000 to 120,000 metres, which never been used any wireless station of this earth. Dots and dashes and frequent repetitions of two dashes and dots representing the letter "G". [X: 1046.1, 1046.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, February 8, 1920, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1920 Ap. 13 / See Jan. 28. / (D Mail, 14) / Sig. Marconi sailed from Southampton in his yacht Elettra, which had been especially equipped to find out if posible the origin of mysterious signals which had been picked up simultaneously in several parts of the world. [X; 1047. (London Daily Mail, April 14, 1920.) See: 1920 Jan 28, (X: 1044).]

1920 Feb / Mars / See Oct 17, 1913. [X; 1048. See: 1913 Oct 17, (X; 190).]

1920 Feb. 7 / Thomson's W. News, 1-2 / Armies of colliers searching for Miss Kate Jones, of Rhanalt St., Taibach, S. Wales. / See June 12. [D; 1007. (Dundee Weekly News, February 7, 1920, p. 1 c. 2.) See: 1920 June 12, (D; 1089).]

1920 Feb 7 / Body at Farnham. / Ev. Standard 7-7-4. [D; 1008. (London Evening Standard, February 7, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb. 7 / Sleeping sickness / See June 12. [D; 1009. See: 1920 June 12, (D; 1089).]

1920 Feb. 7 / See Jan 28. / D. Mirror, 3-3 / Girl at Hawkhurst, found unconscious in road, with hair cut off. Police said, had wanted to be bobbed and had done it herself. [D; 1010. (London Daily Mirror, February 7, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.) See: 1920 Jan. 28, (D; 987).]

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1920 Feb 7 / About 7th, the phe at Upton, 7 miles from Petersborough began. / The People, March 14-13-2 / Cottage occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Macro—who moved in. Then clapping sounds were heard. “Woman in white” seen by Mr. Macro and the 13-year-old daughter. Also “a black, indescribable thing, about 18 inches long, with a tail like a pigeon's”. A whistle heard, and it entered a room with a loud buzzing sound like that of a motor car. When Mr. Marco lighted matches, he had just time to see it gliding around a foot from the floor. [D: 1011.1, 1011.2, 1011.3. (People, March 14, 1920, p. 13 c. 2; not at BNA.)]

1920 March 20 / Thomson's W. News / The Macros had a daughter, Gladys, aged 13. [D; 1012. (Dundee Weekly News, March 20, 1920.)]

1920 March 13 / Polt / Ev Standard, 3-1 / At Upton, near Peterborough, (?) Northamptonshire. In the home of Mr and Mrs Macro, and their daughter. Squeaking sounds, and a mysterious black object seen from time to time. / See other note somewhere. [D; 1013. (London Evening Standard, March 13, 1920, p. 3 c. 1.)]

1920 March 13 / D. News, 5-5 / Upton phe, near Peterborough. Mr. Macro said that in his room he had several times seen a black object ab 15 inches long going around the room ab a foot from floor. It would fall to the floor with a flopping sound. Approach announced by a whistling. Once he threw a pillow at it and it fell to the floor. [D: 1014.1, 1014.2. (London Daily News, March 13, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

[The following nine notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1015-1023.]

1920 Feb 8 / morning / Ev. News, Feb 9-5-5 / Body of Mr. William Murray, of Westbourne-terrace, London, W, found near an institution at Chroley Wood, Bucks, where for 6 months Mr. M. been staying. A cord around neck. [D; 1015. (London Evening News, February 9, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Feb. 16 / D. Mirror, 3-2 / Commber attacked while setting trap for moles—said his assailant was a young man who wore a soldier's tunic. / He knocked partly unconscious and robbed. [D; 1016. (London Daily Mirror, February 16, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb / Strangled boy. Jury's verdict that he wa strangled, but not by himself. / Globe—16-8-4. [D; 1017. (London Globe, February 16, 1920, p. 8 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb. 15 / Thomas Coomber, a witness in case of the strangled boy, caught from behind and knocked on head and pockets rifled. / D. News 16-7-2 / (This before the resumed inquest.) [D; 1018. (London Daily News, February 16, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb 4 / morning / Body of boy of Westerham found near reservoir of town, rope around neck; said been strangled. / Ev. Standard 5-6-2. [D; 1019. (London Evening Standard, February 5, 1920, p. 6 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb. 21 / Thoomson's W. News—Coomber was another cadet in G's school. Aged 17. Two days before the resumed inquest, struck by a man, ab. 20, in a khaki tunic. [D; 1020. (Dundee Weekly News, February 21, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 4 / Punctures / Boy, Gerald Griggs. Dr Gordon-Ward, who made a post-mortem examination, said he found seven small puncture marks on lower part of face, and none on neck. / D. News 17-7-5 / The jury declined to accept the suicide-theory—no evidence to show how cord placed around his neck. [D: 1021.1, 1021.2. (London Daily News, February 17, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 Feb / witness / Ev. News, Feb 6-1-3 / At Westerham, Kent, near the reservoir, found the body of 10-year-old school-boy of W, named Gerald Griggs. A cord around his neck. / 7-5-2—this cord not tied, but simply wound tightly around neck, 5 or 6 times. Suicide not likely—boy not morbid. Ac to school reports he stood second in his class. [D: 1022.1, 1022.2. (London Evening News, February 6, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 Feb. / Boy Griggs case. Ab middle of April, Thomas Coomber, of Caysham Farm, near Westerham, the witness at the Griggs inquest, who had himself been murderously attacked, prior to the resumption of the inquest, found in a pond near Westerham, the body of a new-born child. At the inquest, nothing further learned. [D: 1023.1, 1023.2. (Ref.???)]

1920 Feb 9 / [LT], 10-c / 12-8-d / Fireballs in the Midland. [X; 1049. (London Times, February 9, 1920, p. 10 c. 3.) (London Times, February 12, 1920, p. 8 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb 9 / Lassen Peak / Bull-Amer 10-48. [X; 1050. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 10-48.)]

1920 Feb. 9 / D. Mirror, 3-3 / 2 more “mysterious tragedies”. / At Ipswich, under a hedge, found body of Mrs. Howard, woman of 27, of Mitcham. / Seeming suicide of a man at Oldham. [D; 1024. (London Daily Mirror, February 9, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1920 Feb 9 / D. News, 7-6 / Prison escape. [D; 1025. (London Daily News, February 9, 1920, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1920 Feb 9 / D. News, 7-1 / List of 9 myst deaths by violence. [D; 1026. (London Daily News, February 9, 1920, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1920 Feb 9 / myst assault / D. Express of / Lisa Ghirmgalli, girl of 18, shot herself in Milan—left letter saying was persecuted by spirit of her dead sister, who had haunted her and physically tormented her. “An examination of the girl's dead body revealed livid marks such as those produced by pinching or scratching. [D: 1027.1, 1027.2. (London Daily Express, February 9, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 11 / D. Mirror, 3-4 / 2 men and 2 women arrested for Glasgow murder. [D; 1028. (London Daily Mirror, February 11, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb. 11 / 7 a.m. / Clothed body of a girl found on a path near a quarry. / D. News 12-7 / At New Mills. Identified body of Nellie Turner, aged 21, of N.M. [D; 1029. (London Daily News, February 11, 1920, p. 12 c. 7.)]

1920 Feb. 13/ Fall of 39 inches snow, Jerusalem. / Symons', Feb., 1920. [X; 1051. (Meteorological Magazine, February 1920.)]

[The following four notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1030-1033.]

1920 Feb 16 / Luton News, Feb 26—inquest of the man—found unconscious, lying in a field near Sundon. Identified as a Luton laborer—said been of intemperate habits—said died of exposure. [D; 1030. (Luton News, February 26, 1920.)]

1920 Feb. 21 / Somnamb of Luton / Aug 4, 1909. [D; 1031. See: 1909 Aug 4).]

1920 Feb 19 / Globe of, 3-2 / Man in field near Sundoun. Had 7 shillings, a watch and chain. [D; 1032. (London Globe, February 19, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb 16 / Unknown man found lying in a field at Sundon, near Luton. Taken in a comatose condition to Luton informary. No sign of injury. / Ev. Standard 18-7-2. [D; 1033. (London Evening Standard, February 18, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb. 17 / Fireball from near Capella. / M. Notice 82-308. [X; 1052. Denning, William Frederick. Meteoric Phenomena, February 7-22." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 82 (March 10, 1922): 307-309, at 308.]

1920 Feb 19 / Ev. News, 1-4—“Patrick Mabey, a youth aged 17, has been found dead with a gunshot wound through his right breast, in a field at Apse Farm, near Sandown, Isle of Wight.” [D; 1034. (London Evening News, February 19, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Feb. 20 / Sunday Express of, 7-b / "Terrible noises" in the little village of Luevres, near Bordeaux, France. Directly after nightfall. Had been heard before the war, but then stopped. "People hear noises like the beating of drums in their cellars, barns, and storehouses." [X: 1053.1, 1053.2. (London Sunday Express, February 20, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Feb 20 / Great q in Georgia, near Tiflis. 30,000 homeless. / D. Chronicle, March 12/1/3. [X; 1054. (London Daily Chronicle, March 12, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

[The following six notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1035-1040.]

1920 Feb 20 / BO / D. News, Ap. 16 / Commentary upon the persistence of the “baffling mystery”—“Although his photograph has been circulated north, east, south, and west, through the United Kingdom, the police are still without a clue, and there is no record of any missing person bearing the slightest resemblance to this man, presumably of education and good standing. [D: 1035.1, 1035.2. (London Daily News, April 16, 1920.)]

1920 Feb. 21 / Somnamb. / early morn / Ev. Standard, Feb. 21 / Young woman living in Mansfield-road found in street by policeman in nightdress—taken to hospital, still asleep. [D; 1036. (London Evening Standard, February 21, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 21 / Hants and Sussex News—man red-haired. Finger nails well-trimmed. [D; 1037. (Hants and Sussex News, February 21, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 21 / Described in Sunday Express, March 7 / Age, between 35 and 40; well-nourished, but slim; ears of peculiar shape; hands soft and well-cared-for; of cleanly habits. / Thought might have escaped from some lunatic asylum, but no such place for miles around. [D; 1038. (London Sunday Express, March 7, 1920.)]

[The following two notes were clipped together with the paper clip by Fort. D: 1039-1040.]

1920 Feb 21 / morning / Hants and Sussex News, Feb. 25—“one of the most sensational discoveries and most mysterious cases of tragedy we have ever been called upon to record”—nude body of a man lying in a field near Petersfield. Clothes searched for in vain. Prints of bare feet led back to a road and were lost. Wide search led to no information. No one had seen him alive. Body well-nourished and not of a manual worker. / Issue of March 3rd, report of inquest. Examining physician said on body many scratches such as  made by bushes and hedges and feet lacerated—no wounds such as by firearms or stabbing—no poison in content of stomach—death due to exposure. Man 35 to 40. No houses around, or nearer thana mile, but road there. “The case remains on of the most amazing tragedies one could conceive of. Death from suncope due to exposure./ In the H and S News, June 2, the identification told of—evidently no clothes been found and no new light except this information. / June 9—letter received that W, who was a concert singer, alive on tour. Said that ever since Feb, the police been investigating, but nothing was learned. / D. Express, 1920 / Have May 20 to June 18. [D: 1039.1 to 1039.6. (Hants and Sussex News, February 25, 1920.) (Hants and Sussex News, March 3, 1920.) (Hants and Sussex News, June 2, 1920.) (Hants and Sussex News, June 9, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 21 / In Ev Standard, June 4, said that this man found nude in field—that nothing been found out—theory was been doped and dropped from a motor car. But said every theory had led nowhere. Said that mystery so great some people had thought had been dropped from a flying machine. [D: 1040.1, 1040.2. (London Evening Standard, June 4, 1920.)]

1920 Feb 21 / Rhineck Corpse / LT, 1861, May 10/6/b. [D; 1041. See: 1861 March 22, (A; 411), and, 1861 May 10, (A; 414). "Mysterious Discovery." London Times, May 10, 1861, p. 6 c. 2.]

1920 Feb. 21 / A boy insensible on ground. / See Oct 26, 1920. / At Shortlands. [D; 1042. See: (1920 Oct 26).]

1920 Feb 21 / Paris case / Genest girl / June 11, etc., 1907. [D; 1043. See: 1907 May—about?, (D; 115); 1907 May 10, (D: 118 & 119); and, 1907 May 15, (D: 123, & 124).]

1920 Feb. 21 / Nude / See Dec. 24, 1919. [D; 1044. See: 1919 Dec. 24, (D; 933).]

1920 Feb 21 / Man spirited away—but a ghost story / Nov. 26, 1870. [D; 1045. See: 1870 Nov. 26, (A; 645).]

1920 Feb 21 / In Hampstead Record, Feb 27, said that this young woman of Mansfield-road (Gospel Oak), named Francis Clements, had walked a mile in her sleep—in ambulance, to hospital, still sleeping. And yet seems no one had noticed her. [D; 1046. (Hampstead Record, February 27, 1920.)]

1920 [February 21] / Girl of Hampstead found in daylight. / Sun rises 7. / [calendar page] / [illustration]. [D; 1047. (Ref.???)]

1920 Feb. 21 / See nude known—Jan 6, 1921. [D; 1048. See: (1921 Jan 6).]

1920 Feb 23 / Bright spot on moon (?) / E. Mec, Ap. 16, 1920, p. 142. [X; 1055. (English Mechanic, April 16, 1920, p. 142.)]

1920 Feb 23 / E Mec 115/130 / by W Goodacre / Bright spot near south pole of moon. [X; 1056. (English Mechanic, 115-130.)]

1920 Feb 24 / Magnetic storm / Naturem Ap 1, 1920, p. 137. [X; 1057. (Nature, April 1, 1920, p. 137.)]

1920 Feb 26 / [LT], 13-f / "An aerolite, weighing nearly 4 cwt., has fallen in France between Cambon and Fraisse (Herault)." [X; 1058. (London Times, February 26, 1920, p. 13 c. 6.)]

1920 Feb. 28 / 9:05 p.m. / q / Springfield, Mo. / Bull Amer 10-49. [X; 1059. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 10-49.)]

1920 / last of Feb / Great q. / Tiflis / Ev. Standard, March 11. [X; 1060. (London Evening Standard, March 11, 1920.)]

1920 March 7 / Globe 8-9-3 / Man in Peterborough jumped in river, got out, cast off all his clothes, and ran nude through the streets. [D; 1049. (London Globe, March 8, 1920, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1920 March 7 / The People, 11-5 / New disease epidemic in Austria. 300 cases under treatment in Vienna. Convulsions and delerium and hallucinations. [D; 1050. (The People, March 7, 1920, p. 11 c. 5; not at BNA.)]

1920 March 20 / D. Express of, p. 1 / q / of few days before this in Georgia. Capital city, Gori, destroyed. 10,000 buried in the ruins. [X; 1061. (London Daily Express, March 20, 1920, p. 1.)]

1920 / ab. March 20 / Strike of glaziers and broken windows / New York. [D; 1051. (Ref.???)]

1920 March 21 / London, most beautiful display of aurora in 12 years. / D. Chronicle 24-5-3. [X; 1062. (London Daily Chronicle, March 24, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 March 22 / (Moon) / W. Goodacre, who seems to have known nothing [of] the aurora, writes that upon that evening he noticed a pronounced light, what he calls "earth shine", upon the moon. / E Mec 111/142. [X; 1063. (English Mechanic, 111-142.)]

1920 March 22 / Violent magnetic storm / Nature, Ap. 1, 1920, p. 137. [X; 1064. (Nature, April 1, 1920, p. 137.)]

1920 March 22 / "Earthshine in moon (England) and aurora in Brooklyn. / E. Mec, Ap. 16, 1920, p. 142. [X; 1065. (English Mechanic, April 16, 1920, p. 142.)]

1920 March 22 / Ev. Standard / Another woman['s] body found near Liverpool. 2 bullet wounds. [D; 1052. (London Evening Standard, March 22, 1920.)]

1920 March 23 / Sun disturbances and auroras. / Science, N.S., 51/486. [X; 1066. Roe, Edward Drake, Jr. "The Recent Auroras and Sun Spots." Science, n.s., 51 (May 14, 1920): 486.]

1920 March 24 / Limerick, Ireland / A patch of light in the sky, that pulsating rapidly, seemingly with great regularity. / E Mec 111/120. [X; 1067. (English Mechanic, 111-120.)]

1920 March 24 / See Jan 24. / (Globe, 9-2) / At Welwyn (Hertz), found charred body of Larry Blow, a retired carpenter, who had saturated himself with paraffin and set self afire. [D; 1053. (London Globe, March 24, 1920, p. 9 c. 2.) See: 1920 Jan 24, (D; 981).]

1920 March 27 / Vesuvius in unceasing eruption. / D. Chronicle 29-1-2. [X; 1068. (London Daily Chronicle, March 29, 1920, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1920 March 28 / Tornado / Wis, Ill, Missouri, Ind, Mich, Ohio / and Ala and Ga. / D. Mail, 30th. [X; 1069. (London Daily Mail, March 30, 1920.)]

1920 March 28 / Series of tornadoes / Ill, Ohio, Mich, Ind, Missiouri, Wis, Georgia, Ala. [X; 1070. (Ref.???)]

(1920) (April) / See Tribune article. [X; 1071. See: (Tribune article???).]

1920 Ap. 5 / [LT], 4-c / Sunspots and Aurora. [X; 1072. (London Times, April 5, 1920, p. 4 c. 3.)]

1920 Ap 6 / Elec Men / D. Mail, 5-1 / Medical men and scientists from Harvard University summoned to Daunemora Prison, Clinton Co., New York—extraordinary phe in ab. forty male prisoners, two of whom died, the others in the hospital. Their bodies appeared to be surcharged with electricity. “Sparks fly when their fingers come in contact with steel, and when they handle electric light bulbs, the filaments quiver with energy. Scraps of paper stick to their fingers like filings to a magnet.” [D: 1054.1, 1054.2. (London Daily Mail, April 6, 1920, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1920 Ap. 11 / Lloyd's Sunday News, 3-5. / The baby died in the Strood Union Workhouse. Stung by an insect described as about as big as a middle-sized fly and had bronze-colored wings. Said that a second insect of the kind had been seen. Master of the workhouse thought had come in a package of Canadian cheese. [D: 1055.1, 1055.2. (Lloyd's Sunday News, April 11, 1920, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1920 Ap. 12 / Ev. Standard, 9-4 / 7 missing women in London—one found wandering and one unconscious. [D; 1056. (London Evening Standard, April 12, 1920, p. 9 c. 4.)]

1920 Ap. 13 / Violent q. / Uzerche, in Correze, France / E. Standard, 13th. [X; 1073. (London Evening Standard, April 13, 1920.)]

1920 Ap. 17 / Smoke from Popocatapetl, Mexico. / D. Express 19-7-5. [X; 1074. (London Daily Express, April 19, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 Ap. 19 / afternoon / Severe shocks many places, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. / Globe 21-3-2. [X; 1075. (London Globe, April 21, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Ap. 19 / D. Express of / In wood near village of Casa Guidi, Tuscany, apparition of V. Mary. People saw from other villages arrive and say saw it. [D; 1057. (London Daily Express, April 19, 1920.) “White-Robed Apparition.” Dundee Evening Telegraph, April 22, 1920, p. 4 c. 3.]

1920 Ap. 20 / Tornado / Miss, Ala., Tenn. / D Mail, 21st. [X; 1076. (London Daily Mail, April 21, 1920.)]

1920 (Ap. 20) / (K. bug) / D. Mail / “A number of people in country places have been bitten by some mysterious creature with a very posionous fang. It is rare for any sort of poisonous bite or sting to occur before the summer; and as a rule, the culprit is known. This spring country doctors have attended case after case where the swelling has been sudden and severe, though there is little sign of the bite itself. Said that in the case of a baby that been bitten and that died at the Strood, Kent, Infirmary, Ap. 10, an insect “with bright variegated wings” was seen. Coroner suggested might have come in a ship. [D: 1058.1, 1058.2, 1058.3. (London Daily Mail, April 20, 1920.)]

1920 Ap. 21 / In hour and half at Winchester, 14 Lyrids recorded. / E. Mec 111-189 / Long absence, but see 1919. [X; 1077. (English Mechanic, 111-189.) See: (1919).]

1920 Ap. 25 / evening / D. Mail, 27th / Girl at Heston, Hounslow, struck by bullet from unknown source. [D; 1059. (London Daily Mail, April 27, 1920.)]

1920 Ap. 28 / Govt office fire / night / Fire “of mysterious origin” broke out at the War Office, Constantinople, where the archives are stored. / Sunday Express, May 2-1-4 / The iron doors were locked and it was impossible to gain entrance into the building until after many important documents had been destroyed. / See Sept. 15. [D; 1060.1, 1060.2. (London Sunday Express, May 2, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.) See: 1920 Sept, 15, (D; 1148).]

1920 Ap 28 / Fire / Govt office / See Sept. 15, 1920. [D; 1061. See: (1920 Sept 15).]

1920 Ap. 28 / See Dec 18, 1889. / Fire / Govt office. [D; 1062. See: 1889 Dec. 16, (VI; 1933), and, 1889 Dec 18, (B; 1065).]

1920 Ap. 29 / early morning / Girl somnambulist found by policeman in a street in Birmingham. / D. Chronicle 3-7-4. [D; 1063. (London Daily Chronicle, May 3, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 May 1 / 9:15, 10:09 a.m. / Mo and Ill / q / MWR '20-310. [X; 1078. (Monthly Weather Review, 1920-310.)]

[The following eighteen notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1064-1081.]

1920 May 2 / Westminster snake told of in the Westminster and Pimlico News, June 4 and 11, and said that another snake had appeared in Westminster. The hall porter of Morpeth Mansions had found it hiding under a mat and had caught, sending it to a scientist for examination. / Put in Pembroke case. / (1920). [D: 1064.1, 1064.2. (Westminster and Pimlico News, June 4, 1920.) (Westminster and Pimlico News, June 11, 1920.)]

1920 Sept 23 / D. Express, 5-4. / Henry Jones of Pwllheli driven from his home by snakes. 2 found under the door mat—3 under a dresser—2 under the baby's cradle. [D; 1065. (London Daily Express, September 23, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

[1920] May 29 / BO / W. Dispatch, of 30th / In Store Street, near Gower Street, a butcher, Mr. G.H. Hill, found a snake ab. 3 feet long; green back and speckled underneath. Said that a woman had seen it, or another, upon the 27th in a gardden. (?) / This one writhing along the pavement. [D; 1066.1, 1066.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, May 30, 1920.)]

1920 May 29 / BO / W. Dispatch of 30th / Photo of snake reproduced in. [D; 1067. (London Weekly Dispatch, May 30, 1920.)]

1920 May / Snake in a street / 1856, L.T., Aug. 5-5-e. [D; 1068. (London Times, August 5, 1856, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 May / Snake / See Sept 18, 1910. [D; 1069. See: 1910 Sept 18, (D; 415).]

1920 May 26 / London snakes / See July 1, 1922. [D; 1070. See: (1922 July 1).]

1920 May 22 / Snakes / See South Africa, May 22, 1921. [D; 1071. See: (1921 May 22).]

[The following two notes were folded together with the paper clip by Fort. D: 1072-1073.]

1920 June 2 / An adder, more than 2 feet long, killed outside the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Westminster. / (D. Express, 3-5-3). [D; 1072. (London Daily Express, June 3, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 June / London snakes / See June 9, 1923. [D; 1073. See: (1923 June 9).]

[The following five notes were folded together with the pin clip by Fort. D: 1074-1078.]

1920 May 26 / BO / (Snakes/ another) / A crowd gathering in Gower street, near Brit Museum, saying that in an enclosure behind Dr. Michie's house a snake had been seen. There was an investigation and a snake was caught. / D. Express, 31-7-7 / Thought to be a venomous snake of Egypt, known as a naja haja. / On same day a child at Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, was killed by a viper he had found and picked up. [D: 1072.1, 1074.2. (London Daily Express, May 31, 1920, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1920 May 26 / other snakes / See Times Index, July-Sept. [D; 1075. (London Times, July-Sept, 1920.)]

1920 May 27 / BO / A viper 2½ feet long killed in a London (Newland's Park, Sydenham) garden. / D. Express 28-1-3. [D; 1076. (London Daily Express, May 28, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 May 27 / BO / Times, June 21—another adder killed in London, in a field near Willesden Junction Station. / Junction / (N.M.) [D; 1077. (London TImes, June 21, 1920.)]

1920 May 26 / BO / D. News of / Child aged 2, son of Mr. Howell, of Maenclochog, Pemsbrokeshire, found a snake in the garden. Bitten and killed by it. [D; 1078. (London Daily News, May 26, 1920.)]

1920 Aug 24 / D. Express of, 1-6 / Earl of Selbourne, 3rd case of bite by adder in 2 or 3 weeks. [D; 1079. (London Daily Express, August 24, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 May 27, period of / BO / Times, June 9, reports a cluster of 23 snakes found at Maenclochog. [D; 1080. (London Times, June 9, 1920.)]

1920 May 26 / D. Express, 1-4. / 18-month-old child of Mr and Mrs. Howells of Maenclochog, found killed by viper coiled around neck. / N. Pembrokeshire. [D; 1081. (London Daily Express, May 26, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 May 8 / 20 h, 5 m / At Barcelonnette (Basse-Alpes), bolide as if from near Arcrurus. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1920-528. [X; 1079. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-528.)]

1920 May 9 / 9:10 p.m. / Bristol, Cardiff, London / bright fireball / Nature 105-370. [X; 1080. (Nature, 105-370.)]

1920 May / England . great invasion of Red Admirals / Field, June. [X; 1081. (Field, June 1920; not at BNA.)]

1920 May 10 / D. News, 7-7 / Man stabbed was Mr. Harry Finn, 6 Charlotte St, Tullaham Ct. road, Said was by a man he knew slightly—but could not explain. [D; 1082. (London Daily News, May 10, 1920, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1920 May 10 / Number attacked / See Ap 16, 1922. / Seems a mistake about number. [D; 1083. See: (1922 Ap 16).]

1920 May 10 / Number attacked / See Ap. 30, 1911. [D; 1084. See: 1911 Ap. 30, (D: 471 & 472).]

1920 May 13 / Aurora / M.W.R. 1922-20. [X; 1082. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-20.)]

1920 May 15 and 16 / evenings / Petersfield / A continuous low rumbling for which Capt C.J.P. Cave could not account. / Symons 55-89. [X; 1083. (Meteorological Magazine, 55-89.)]

1920 May 16 / Bird / W. Dispatch, 1-6 / In the district around Mullingar, Westmeath, a bird, size of large hen, beak like vulture's, grayish brown. Had a cry like a woman's scream, heard several miles, had a laughing sound. Thought by some to be a ghost-bird. [X; 1084. (London Weekly Dispatch, May 16, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 May 18 / D. Mirror, 2-3. / Lost memory girl at Cleeethorpes, Lincolnshire. Said she been kidnapped by gipsies. [D; 1085. (London Daily Mirror, May 18, 1920, p. 2 c. 3.)]

1920 [May 24] / [Sulphur Rains Down on Preacher's Home / The Evening Sun]. [X; 1085. Newspaper clipping. (London Evening Sun, May 24, 1920.)]

1920 May 25 / night / Hail size of hen's eggs / Paris / Globe 26-6-1. [X; 1086. (London Globe, May 26, 1920, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1920 May 26 / Torrential and destructive rains in France. / J. des Debats 27-3-1. [X; 1087. (Journal des Debats, May 27, 1920, p. 3 c. 1.)]

1920 May 26 ./ In Chiswick Times, 28th, described and said that the digging was not very enthusiastic, because Dr Pryor of B Univ., who was present, thought only been a subsiding of land. Said that 6 feet down were found plants as if dragged from the surface by a penetrating body. [X: 1088.1, 10882. (Chiswick Times, May 28, 1920.)]

1920 May 26 / Th stone reported fallen in a th. storm in the garden of the Convent of St Mary, Burlington lane, Chiswick, London. Hole 3 feet deep. Nothing found in it and by deeper digging. / D. News, 28-5-1. [X; 1089. (London Daily News, May 28, 1920, p. 5 c. 1.)]

[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. X: 1090-1092.]

1920 May 29 / BO / Sim. / Louth "waterspout / D. Express, 31 / Hundreds homeless. 20 bodies recovered. Dark all afternoon and a th. storm. River Lud rose rapidly 15 feet (Lincolnshire). People in rooms and water pour in and fill up to ceilings before could get out. / At Bala, North Wales, a "cloudburst" that fell upon fields and drowned cattle. [X: 1090.1, 1090.2. (London Daily Express, May 31, 1920.)]

1920 May 29 / BO / D. News, 31st / Streets of Preston, Lancashire, flooded, and surrounding fields—cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry drowned. Crops, island of Jersey, destroyed. [X; 1091. (London Daily News, May 31, 1920.)]

1920 May 29 / BO / Whether same date or not, a dispatch, Berlin, dated May 31st. told of a "cloudburst" upon town of Mansfield, Germany, houses collapsing into the flooded streets. / D. Express, June 1-5-1 / 2-5-2 / 800 homeless in Louth. / At the inquest of 22 victims (5-5-2), not learned anybody saw the bulk struck, but fields washed away and deep gullies formed. Estimated that ab 20,000,000 tons of water came down in one bulk. / 50 houses swept away. / Express, June 1, said that cottages carried away bodily so that not a trace of them—rose in rooms and people not wedged against ceilings told of saving selves on rafts of beds and tables. / Into one garden poured a motor car, a cart, bicicles [sic, bicycles], a couch, a barrel of oil, a music stool and a writing desk. A bridge rammed into another garden. [X: 1092.1 to 1092.4. (London Daily Express, June 1, 1920, p. 5 c. 1.) (London Daily Express, June 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.) (London Daily Express, June 5, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1920 May 29 / Th storms of / Nature 105-468. [X; 1093. (Nature, 105-468.)]

1920 May 29 / "Th. bolt said fallen into ground at Cambridge. / D. Express 31-1-2. [X; 1094. (London Daily Express, May 31, 1920, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1920 May 29 / Louth / D. Chronicle, May 31 / ab. 5 p.m. / Tennyson lived near here once. Lud known as "Tennyson's brook". [X; 1095. (London Daily Chronicle, May 31, 1920.)]

1920 May 29 / Louth / No other deluge mentioned in Symons, June. [X; 1096. (Meteorological Magazine, June 1920.)]

1920 May 30 / BO / Floods at Leigh, Lancashire—streets impassable." / Westminster Gazette, May 31. [X; 1097. (Westminster Gazette, May 31, 1920.)]

1920 June 1 ./ D. News, 5-5 / Mamie Stuart disap. [D; 1086. (London Daily News, June 1, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.) See: 192-, [1920s], (D; 936).]

1920 June 8 / Shocks / Italy / [LT], 10-15-f. [X; 1098. (London Times, June 10, 1920, p. 15 c. 6.)]

1920 June 9 / A meteorologist, F.L. McCreary. climbed Ben Lomond. Missing. / D. Express 22-5-3 / Last seen at foot of mountain. [D; 1087. (London Daily Express, June 22, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 June / McCreary, who lost on Ben Lomond. / D. Express, Sept. 4-5-4 / Says that he was an airman—that a human skull been found on west side of B. Lomond—thought to be his. [D; 1088. (London Daily Express, September 4, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 June 12 / Thomson's W. News, 9-3—Sleeping sickness in the Taibach district. One girl in Taibach been asleep 3 weeks. / See Feb. 7. [D; 1089. (Dundee Weekly News, June 12, 1920, p. 9 c. 3.) See: 1920 Feb. 7, (D: 1007 & 1009).]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1090-1091.]

1920 June 13 / People, 4-4 / At Massteg, Glamorganshire, bedroom afire at the Castle Hotel. Almost immediately afterward a fire in a bedroom in the Bird-in-Hand Hotel—here burned matches on the bed. The next day, a bed in the Victoria Hotel afire. Charred paper was found on it. [D; 1090. (People, June 13, 1920, p. 4 c. 4; not at BNA.)]

1920 June 3, 4, 5 / Fires / Series of fires in hotels in Maesteg, Glamorganshire. / D. Mail, 8th / 3 different hotels—beds blazed up, but said that burned matches and aper were found. [D; 1091. (London Daily Mail, June 8, 1920.)]

1920 June 13 / Polt / Jour de Debat, 3-3 / Home of M. Douzolet, of the police judiciary. / His wife, daughter and belle fille. / But he was away at the time. Loud sounds and objects moved about—said he was absent at time of writing. Had been phe 18 days. / 55 rue Gazau, near the park Mont Souris, Paris. [D: 1092.1, 1092.2. (Journal des Debats, June 13, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1920 June 13 and later / Myst. assaults by a man at Blackpool. / D. Chronicle, Oct 23-5-7. [D; 1093. (London Daily Chronicle, October 23, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 June 15 / Severe shock. / Ancona, Italy / [LT] 16-15-f. [X; 1099. (London Times, June 16, 1920, p. 15 c. 6.)]

1920 June 16-17 / Black repeats / At Moretonhampstead, Devon, ac to D.W. Horner, F.R.M.S., in Symons' Met Mag, Aug., 1920. On 16th fell rain that was "perfectly black". On 17th a black deluge poured for more than ½ hour, coming down "like a solid wall" and was "quite local". [X: 1100.1, 1100.2. (Meteorological Magazine, August 1920.)]

1920 June 16 and 17 / Moretonhampstead, Devonshire / black rain—several hundred miles from nearest main factory town / Symons 55/142 / (quite local) / On 16th, "perfectly black". 17th, great darkness—great quantity, like a solid black wall coming down. / E Mec 111-260. [X: 1101.1, 1101.2. (English Mechanic, 111-260.)]

1920 June 20 / Lloyds S. News, 3-6 / At Stretton, near Leicester, body of a girl cyclist, Annie Bella Wright, found shot through head. / In an adjoining field a body of a dead carrion crow. [D: 1094.1, 1094.2. (Lloyd's Sunday News, June 20, 1920, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1920 / summer / Immigrations of 5 species of butterflies. / June numbers of The Field. [X; 1102. (Field, June 1920; not at BNA.)]

1920 / summer / [Hailstone of Long Ago as Large as Melons / July 25]. Minn. Journal. [X; 1103.1. Newspaper clipping. (Minnesota Journal, July 25, 1920.)]

1920 / to July / Saturn and Jupiter in Leo / Aug—Saturn and Venus in Leo / Sept—Saturn and Jupiter in Leo-Virgo, till Sept., 1920. [X; 1103.2. (Ref.???)]

1920 July / Began loud raps om a house in East Wickham, near Welling, in Kent. / Ev. News, Oct 4. / It was a recently built bungalow. [D; 1095. (London Evening News, October 4, 1920.)]

1920 July 1 / 10 a.m. / at Hunsruck, between Trèves and Coblentz / Metite / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-107 / Think I have this or another dated some years before. [X; 1104. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-107.)]

1920 July 1 / metite / Simmern, Hunsruck, Prussia / S. Kens. [X; 1105. (Ref.???)]

1920 July 1 / D. Express / Mr. A. W.S. Wadley disappeared mysteriously from a trai passing through a tunnel night of June 29th. Body found in Severn tummel bet. rails, by a search party. Had been informed by a passenger who not seen him leave, but had missed him and informed at next station. Said suffered insomnia and a nervous breakdown. [D: 1096.1, 1096.2. (London Daily Express, July 1, 1920.)]

1920 July 3 / Sunday Express 4-7-5 / In the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, at the village of Burscough, near Ormskirk, found nude body of unknown man. Head almost severed from body. [D; 1097. (London Sunday Express, July 4, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 July 12 / L.T., 11-a / Phenomenal color effects at Folkstone. [X; 1106. (London Times, July 12, 1920, p. 11 c. 1.)]

1920 July 12 / before and after / Considerable on Mamie Stuart disap in D. News. See 28-1-7. [D; 1098. (London Daily News, July 28, 1920, p. 1 c. 7.) See: 192-, [1920s], (D; 936).]

1920 July 13 / Ev. Standard, 16-4 / Near Deal, for 10 miles shore covered with masses of starfishes cast up by waves. [X; 1107. (London Evening Standard, July 13, 1920, p. 16 c. 4.)]

1920 July 16 / Between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., 4 terrific shocks at Los Angeles. / Ev. Standard 17-2-3. [X; 1108. (London Evening Standard, July 17, 1920, p. 2 c. 3.)]

1920 July 19 / D. Express / 2 bodies of men from railroad trains found on lines, one in Essex and one in Kent, One last seen in London, on way to train. No known troubles of either. [D; 1099. (London Daily Express, July 19, 1920.)]

1920 July 20 / White stones / Portland[, Oregon] / See N.L. [X; 1109. The note copies information from page 234 of New Lands. ("Small stones fall from air as storm in Portland rages." Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1920, p. 1 c. 6-7.)]

1920 July 20-21 / 2 qs at Comrie, Perthshire / Times, July 23, 1920 / See Sept. 13. [X; 1110. (London Times, July 23, 1920.) See: 1920 Sep 13, (X; 1142).]

1920 July 21 / 3 strong shocks at Messina, 1st at 2 a.m. Inhabitants in panic—camped in streets. / D. News 22-1-3 / Ab. 2 a.m.—somewhat severe shock at Comrie—been a slight shock forenoon of 20th.

1920 July 21 / Ab. 3 a.m., at Balderton, near Newark (D. News 27-5-4), Charles Gill Pritchett, a machine hand, disappeared from his home, clad in his underwear. Body found in a pool a mile away. Next day, at the inquest, P.'s next-door neighbor, Walter Tewson, told that a vision of his neighbor had appeared before him and kept him awake that night, and occupied his thoughts next day so that he had gone to the pool, there finding P's body (in an upright position, the head out of water.) [D: 1100.1, 1100.2. (London Daily News, July 27, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 July 25 / q and storm / Luray, Va / Next to the severest q ever known there, followed by one [of] the severest electric storms known there. / MWR '20-493. [X; 1112. (Monthly Weather Review, 1920-493.)]

1920 July 25 / Lloyds S. News, 2-2. / Disap., July 16, from Chobham, Surrey, of Walter Kilmaruh, aged 51. His hair extended to his shoulders—beard 3 feet long—but no trace. / A widower with 3 children. Employed as a gardener. / Aug 1-2-5—no trace. [D: 1101.1, 1101.2. (Lloyd's Sunday News, July 25, 1920, p. 2 c. 2.)]

1920 July 26 / Ref = Bull. Seismological Society of America, vol 11 (1921) / P.T.S. / page 83. [X; 1113. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 July 26 / At Deal, a balloon-shaped waterspout seen, heading for the French coast. / D. News 27-5-3. [X; 1114. (London Daily News, Jauly 27, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 July 26 / q / Chile / Ref, July 26, 1920. [X; 1115. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1102-1103.]

1920 July 30 / Crawford / All that is findable in the London Times is in the issue of Aug 2 (5-f). “At an inquest at Bangor, on Saturday (July 31) of the body of William Jackson Crawford, a spiritualist of Belfast, whose body was found on the rocks, a verdict of 'Death from poisoning' was returned. [D: 1102.1, 1102.2. (London Times, August 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 July 30 / Removed / Dr W.J. Crawford, the investigator of psychic phe—killed himself. See Holms' “The Facts of Psychic Science”, p. 281—That he wrote on July 26, four days before his death—“I have been struck down mentally. I was perfectly all right up to a few weeks ago... It is not the psychic work. I enjoyed it too well. I am thankful to say that work will stand. It is too thoroughly done for any material loophole to be left.” [D: 1103.1, 1103.2, 1103.3. Holms, Archibald Campbell. The Facts of Psychic Science and Philosophy. Jamaica, N.Y.: Occult Press, 1927, 281.]

1920 July 31 / Stone, Staffs. / 5:30 p.m. / great fall of wet hay in a whirling wind / Symons Met 55/177. [X; 1116. (Meteorological Magazine, 55-177.)]

1920 Aug / Templemore / in N.Y. Times, Aug 22-1-6. [D; 1104. (New York Times, August 22, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 Aug / Templemore / Malden, Mass, pilgrims / See Nov. 17, 1929. [D; 1105. See: (1929 Nov. 17).]

1920 Aug / Templemore / visions and cures / Knock, Ireland / Feb, etc., 1880. [D; 1106. See: 1879 Aug 21, (B; 244); 1880 Jan 5, (B; 261); 1880 Feb., etc., (B; 272); and, 1880 Aug 21, (B; 311).]

1920 Aug / Templemore / Revived miracles of Knock, Ireland / L.T., 1880, Aug. 21-11-f / 30-7-c / Sept 13-10-d. [D; 1107. "The Miraculous in Ireland." London Times, August 21, 1880, p. 11 c. 6. "The Alleged Miracles at Knock." London Times, August 30, 1880, p. 7 c. 3. "Ireland." London Times, September 13, 1880, p. 10 c. 4-5.]

1920 Aug / Templemore / Miracles—cures / Oct 4, 1930. [D; 1108. See: (1930 Oct 4).]

1920 Aug / Bleeding image in church / N.Q. 9-4-127, etc. / long ago. [D; 1109. ("Bleeding Image in Christ Church, Dublin." Notes and Queries, s. 9 v. 4 (, 1899): 127, 311, 407, 410+; not online; at OKQ Stauffer AG305.N9.)]

[The following four notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1110-1113.]

1920 Aug / The terrible toll of bloodshed—wild scenes in Nenagh—awful tragedy—the Bansha Horror—the hanging of an Irish boy—heritage of hate—terrifying experience—midnight massacre—a frightful prospect—week-end of awful tragedies—hell in Belfast—taken out and shot. “Village tragedy—“Oh, God, I'm shot!” / “If worried about income tax, consult us.” / Patrol attacked—more reprisals. / Hello! Hello!! Have your heard? Drawing room suites for £18. / Murder tide flows on. / People in Rathmines oblivious to murder in their fight over mmoving pictures on Sunday or not. Some of the cured—Mrs Eliza Taylor, Killarney; Miss Maisie Brenna, of Blarney; Sean Roche, Mallow; Margaret Manning, Cork; Mrs. Kiernan, 27 Irishtown Road, Dublin; Ellen Daniels, 34 Powers Court, Dublin. Walsh's picture, in Tip. Star, Aug 28, is of an anaemic young man. / Photos of him on sale. O'Dwyer, Photographer, Friar Street, Thurles. Sunday was 29th. / Priests—“regard the matter with reserve”—“decline to express an opinion”. / Story is that, led by apparition of the Virgin Mary, Walsh dug a spade into the earthen floor of his room and up spouted a volume of water. Farmhouse was at Curraheen. Walsh a farm laborer. Many names of cured, which I not notem because not doubt. Pilgrims—some of them stealing vehicles. Mr. John McDonnell, giving a pilgrim a lift—robbed of £250. / In the roads the chatter of Down and Derry and Tipperary and etc. Fanatical belief and all damned nonsense, but the sights of Templemore worth going to see—chanting, rattling of beads, praying, telling smutty stories—ribaldry. Also, ac to advertisements in Star, a great deal of ordinary life—“painless extraction of teeth—stop chest cough—music hath charms—ladies' autumn skirts. / Mike Doherty, of Donohill, won the 3-mile and 5-mile bike races—“all honour to Mike!” Master T. Crowe, Kilmore, carried off some coveted honours in Doon Collegiate School. In Dundrum soldiers and Sinn Feiners co-operating to put out a fire in a convent. / Tip. Star, Sept 25, says of some of the reputed cases either fake or temporary and the sufferers were found to be as badly off as ever. [D; 1110.1 to 1110.11. (Refs.???)]

1920 Aug / Topperary Star, Dec 11—blood again oozing from the statues, as reported upon Dec. 5th—requests for water from the “sacred well” still coming from places as far away as Bombay. [D; 1111. (Tipperary Star and Midland Advertiser (Thurles), December 5, 1920.)]

1920 Aug / Gray = George's Street. [D; 1112. (Ref.???)]

1920 Aug 21 / Riot and burnings, Templemore, on 16th, described in the Tipperary Star of 21st as “the sack of the town of Templemore”. The Town Hall and other buildings burned. [D; 1113. (Tipperary Star and Midland Advertiser (Thurles), August 21, 1920.)]

1920 / ab. Aug 1 / Selby ghost start / See Oct 25. [D; 1114. See: (1920 Oct 25).]

1920 Aug 4 / Balloon with 2 men in it broke away at Salisbury Plain. / Ev. Standard 5-7-2. [X; 1117. (London Evening Standard, August 5, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Aug 5 / D. Mirror, 3-2 / “Belfast police are in possession of the sensational news that eight girls, all under 12 years of age, are missing, since last Monday week, from the Newtownards-road district, East Belfast. / (Been rioting here.) [D; 1115. (London Daily Mirror, August 5, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Aug 8 / [source unidentified], 2-1 / At Portsea—ghost—woman in white in a disused room in a house overlooking King's Bench Alley. [D; 1116. (Unidentified source, August 8, 1920, p. 2 c. 1.)]

1920 Aug 16 / See Aug 20. / Nova Cygni found on a photographic plate of 20th as a 7th mag star. / Nature 106-91. [X; 1118. (Nature, 106-91.)]

1920 Aug 16 / Middle-aged man, fully dressed, seen swimming in Thames, off Woolwich. / D. News, 18-5-6 / Appeared to be in no difficulties and then disappeared. Search made immediately. No body found. (See woman and 2 childre,) [D: 1117.1, 1117.2. (London Daily News, August 18, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Aug 17 / Constable Parry (D. News 18-3-4) reported finding a woman's clothes and a valuable gold brooch on beach at Caswell, on the Gower coast. Clothing had been in the water. No body heard of. Reported from Swansea. [D; 1118. (London Daily News, August 18, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1920 Aug 18 / Clbrst / Monticello, N.Y. / N.Y. Times 19-15-5. [X; 1119. (New York Times, August 19, 1920, p. 15 c. 5.)]

1920 Aug 18 / 12 towns flooded by terrific clbrst near Binghampton, N.Y. / N.Y. Times 19-15-5. [X; 1120. (New York Times, August 19, 1920, p. 15 c. 5.)]

1920 Aug 18 / Night / A punting party on Thames, near Walton (D. News 20-5-4) / Punt sank suddenly and all seven of them thrown into the water. All were rescued. [D; 1119. (London Daily News, August 20, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 Aug 19 / Albert Arnold, a barge mate, drowned near Greenhithe. / Ev. Standard 25-3-2. [D; 1120. (London Evening Standard, August 25, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Aug 20 / Denning's nova in Cygnus, about 3½ mag. By Aug 23 = 2.2 mag. / Nature 105-838. [X; 1121. (Nature, 105-838.)]

1920 Aug 20 / Denning's new star / L.T. 26-13-3 / [illustration]. [X; 1122. (London Times, August 26, 1920, p. 13 c. 3.)]

1920 Aug 20 / q. / Chile / Ref, July 26. [X; 1123. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 Aug 20 / Denning's Nova Cygni III 3.5 mag, / On Aug 22, almost 2 mag. Rose from mag of 7 on Aug 16, found on a plate taken in Sweden. / Nature 106-91 / On Oct 7, down to 8th mag. [X; 1124. (Nature, 106-91.) Cygnus III is now identified as V476 Cyg.] ]

1920 Aug 20 / At Putney Bridge, a child rescued from drowning in the Thames, by Mr. Redway, of the firm Redway, Mann & Co., Ltd. No particulars. [D; 1121. (Ref.???)]

1920 Aug 20 / “Police Mystified” / At Isleworth, near Richmond, om Thames, bodies of woman, boy, and a girl found not far apart. / Ev. Standard 21-6-2. [D; 1122. (London Evening Standard, August 21, 1920, p. 6 c. 2.)]

1920 Aug 21 / Ev. Standard, 7-1 / Inquest upon Harry Harris, at Woolwich. Drowned while swimming the Thames. [D; 1123. (London Evening Standard, August 21, 1920, p. 7 c. 1.)]

[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1124-1126.]

1920 Aug 21. / Cor to the D News (23-1-7) telegraphed from Thursle, Toipperary, Ireland, the “incredible story”—“On Saturday, 6 p.m., all statues and holy pictures in the house of Thomas Dwan, a news-agent, in Templemore, began to bleed. Cor said that Dwan told him that the phe been occurring in his home and that of his brother-in-law since July. / News 24-5-7—Cor sent further news—thousands flocking to Templemore. Dwan's nephew, young man, reported seeing visions, and making miraculous cures—town such sights as never before—invaded by cripples. Photo of part of the crowd published. / D. News 26-5-7—village packed. People sleeping on doorsteps. Scores of them at a time, dropping on knees—coming on bicycles, foot, motors, trains. Every heard-of ailment, even warts. No more said of bleeding statues, but of alleged cures by James Walsh. Tells of several. [D: 1124.1 to 1124.4. (London Daily News, August 23, 1920, p. 1 c. 7.) (London Daily News, August 26, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Aug 24 / D. Mirror, 3-2 / Templemore / People admitted in batches of 50. A guard, watch in hand, gave each a certain time to pray in front of the statue, and then say—“Time, please!” [D; 1125. (London Daily Mirror, August 24, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Sept. 13 / Ev. Standard, 8-2 / “Magr. Ryan expresses his disbelief in the Divine character of the manifestations.” And quoted as saying: “I have no reason to satisfy me that there have been any miraculous manifestations.” [D; 1126. (London Evening Standard, September 13, 1920, p. 8 c. 2.)]

[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1127-119.]

1920 [Aug. 21] / Phe told of in Tipperary Star, beginning with issue of Aug 28—In Dwan's house, the statues bled and simultaneously in his sister's house, where lived his nephew, five miles away./ As to preceding phe, Walsh, upon July 5th, had told Miss Maher, Dwan's sister, in whose house he lived, that the miracles of Lourdes were going to occur in Ireland, as revealed to him, and that he would be the insturment. Representatives of the Star interviewed Martin Monahan, of Templemore, who said that he had been cured of paralysis of his leg, and had seen a crucifix bleed. Daniel Eagan, a harness maker, of Templemore, had seen blod oozing from a statue. In Walsh's room, a hollow had appeared in floor, and from this, at times, water flowed. Statues bled and like polt. phe. moved. Walsh not Dwan's nephew, but young man lodging with his wife's sister and brother, named Maher. All about Walsh was known—recently he had left Mount St. Joseph's Monastery, Roscrea, on account of ill health. He was working for the Mahers, expecting in September to join a less rigorous order of monks. / Reporter says the crowd around Dwan's house was so great that it took the best part of an hour to make his way through it. He saw someone else get through in a minute. This man told that he had a loathsome contagious disease. The reporter [who] got through was told that the bleeding had stopped and saw no bleeding, / Reports from other towns—myriads of motors on roads where there had been only an occasional cart of farm produce. Donkey carts, charabancs, lorries, jaunting cars, all on the way to Templemore. The tramp of pilgrims through streets of Nenagh and Roscrea, and the hotels and restaurants doing a “roaring trade”. Messrs Cook, the Tourist agents, had addressed inquiries as to whether the Templemore hotel-keepers could cater for 2,000 pilgrims from England. Inquiries had come from travel agencies in Egypt and Japan. On Sunday, Aug 29, about 15,000 new arrivals in town. The town had changed its name into Pilgrimstown——the “sacred well” of water almost as much of an attraction—and a new thought to me of teleported water and “sacred wells. Further stories are of remarkable cures and no more of flows of blood—however, of the appearance of water in the little “well”. Then—that in presence of Walsh, a statue, Aug 30th, had bled, in the house of Mr. E. Gray, a bootmaker of Templemore—Star, Sept 4. Night of 30th, Walsh, in home of Mr. T. Mockler (Chemist), had taken up a statue and water had appeared (“Tears had streamed from the eyes”). May have been some rivalry. Next day a queue a mile long outside Mockler's house. Considerable comment upon profiteering by hotelmen and cabmen, but no mention of charges for admission by Dwan or anybody else—no relief in congestion of the roads. Sept 11—same vast crowds. Wherever the water at the “well” was coming from, thousands od quantities of it had been carried away. Sept. 25—It was thought that the pilgrims had numbered about a million. Very much dereased Templemore to little center in Pilgrimstown, a city of tents and shacks—chief attraction had become the House o the the Well. Te,plemore was such a center of the distrubances that for months, news from Templemore, in the Tipperary Star, was under the heading of “Templemore Thrills”. [D: 1127.1 to 1127.17. (Tipperary Star and Midland Advertiser (Thurles), August 28, 1920., plus.)]

1920 Aug / One newspaper heading is—Reign of terror in Ireland—terrible masssacres—appalling loss of life—holocaust—bloodshed and horror. Notes—Bloody Sunday in County Cork—terrible bloodshed—shocking series of murders—town in ruins—bombs and burnings—devillish vandalism—murder and terrorism—hangings—ambushes—raids. [D: 1128.1, 1128.2. (Refs.???)]

1920 Aug. 16 / Fires so great that faraway people in trees and standing on trains of hay in roads, watching it. After that, town terrorized and all shops were closed. Case of a murdered man here, and inquest could not be held, because only 6 jurors, out of 19 summoned, attended. [D; 1129. (Ref.???)]

1920 Aug 21 / (B) / D. News, Sept 10-1-5 / Boy, James Walsh, aged 16, was the guest of Monsignor Ryan, Dean of Cashel, ab 15 miles from Templemore. He and 2 other clergymen were called to another room by the boy, who pointed to a crucifix, from which “to all outward appearances” blood was flowing. “About the same time, blood was seen to flow from the side of a statue which was an emblem of the Sacred Heart. A little later, when the boy went to his bedroom, there was a similar manifestation from another large crucifix there.” My own conclusion is that any polt could do this. [D; 1130.1, 1130.2, 1130.3. (London Daily News, September 10, 1920, p. 1 c. 5.)]

[The following five notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1131-1135.]

1920 Aug 22 / (S. Woodford) / People, 7-5 / Mr. Gaskin's son was first to hear windows breaking. [D; 1131. (People, August 22, 1920, p. 7 c. 5; not at BNA.)]

1920 Aug 18 / D. News, 5-6. / Mr. Gaskin's ailment was sciatica. [D; 1132. (London Daily News, August 18, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Aug 17 / D. Express / Gaskin had lived there 14 years. [D; 1133. (London Daily Express, August 17, 1920.)]

1920 Aug 17 / BO / D. Express of—said that several persons on housetops were struck by stones. [D; 1134. (London Daily Express, August 17, 1920.)]

1920 Aug 9 / Stones / Invalid / Night of the 9th, at South Woodford, E, a shower of small stones smashed the top windows of Wellington Villa, in Grove-road. On 12th, at night, windows of top rooms were broken again. Night of the 13th, police were stationed in the house, in the road, on roofs of other houses, some in trees. “At 10:30 p.m., stones flew through the windows of the upper rooms every few minutes but whence they came could not be discovered.” / D. Mail 19-3-3 / Night of the 14th, 40 policemaen, some local policemen and some from Scotland Yard, were present. Again the stones fell or were thrown. After that not again. “Wellington Villa has been occupied by Mr. H.T. Gaskin for 14 years.He is bedridden. The stones apparently all come from one direction, and the police do not think they have been hand-thrown.” / In the Woodford Times, Aug 20, said at the home of Thomas Herbert Gaslin, an American, the inventor of the Gaskin lifeboat. The first attack by stones that pattered on glass harmlessly. The others broke windows, plate glass ⅜ inch thick. Source had not been discovered. Many police and hosts of other persons investigated. “The stones were smooth, round pebbles about the size of a marble, and evidently carefully chosen for the purpose. Said that 2 of the attacks continued for hours, doing great damage. Mr. G. Said he had so far as he knew not an enemy in the world and could think of no explanation. / Issue of 27th—no repetition. [D: 1135.1 to 1135.7. (London Daily Mail, August 19, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1920 Aug 22 / Sunday Express / Woman and two children in river identified. Mrs Irene Walden, of Upper Norwood. No more known. [D; 1136. (London Sunday Express, August 22, 1920.)]

1920 Aug 23 / [LT], 7-b / 25-7-a / 30-7-d / Denning's New Star. [X; 1125. (London Times, August 23, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.) (London Times, August 25, 1920, p. 7 c. 1.) (London Times, August 30, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 Aug 24-25 / night / 22 h / At Coulouvray, a meteor set fire to a house. / Ac to M. Belouin, an astronomer. / Bull Soc Astro de France 1920-509. [X; 1126. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-509.)]

1920 Aug 24 / Denning's star = mag.1.8, then declined. / Nature 106-59. [X; 1127. (Nature, 106-59.)]

1920 Aug 28 / 2:45 a.m. / Shock considerable force at Malta—panic. / D. Mirror, 30th. [X; 1128. (London Daily Mirror, August 30, 1920.)]

1920 Aug 28 / Dispatch from Tokio so dated / D Express 31-1-3 / Tidal wave at island of Saqhalien, off e. coast of Siberia. 200 lives lost. [X; 1129. (London Daily Express, August 31, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 Aug 28 / 2:45 a.m. / Malta / damage to houses by q. / D Express 30-5-5. [X; 1130. (London Daily Express, August 30, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Aug 30 / Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, body of Mrs Minnie Stevenson found in a canal. A Spiritualist. She had been obtaining money by telling fortunes; and at the inquest, it was the Coroner's opinion that she had committed suicide, in fear of arrest. / L.T., Sept 1-7-b. [D: 1137.1, 1137.2. (London Times, September 1, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Sept / Templemore / Nothing in Dublin D. Express. [D; 1138. Dublin Daily Express.]

1920 Sept. / Ape-man terrorizing people near Pittsburgh, Pa. / Thomson's W News 25-12-1. [D; 1139. (Dundee Weekly News, September 25, 1920, p. 12 c. 1.)]

1920 Sept / Thomson's W. News of 18-7-3 / Myst saved man cursed with pins inside him. Morris Specci, of Haverstraw, N.Y. [D; 1140. (Dundee Weekly News, September 18, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1920 Sept 1 / D. Express of / Ghost near Lucerne, Switz—in white. Town of St Gall. Crowds searching for it. 3 men arrested for rioting. [D; 1141. (London Daily Express, September 1, 1920.)]

1920 Sept 3-4 / night / first ab midnight / W. Dispatch, 5-3-2 / 3 shocks at Ilfracombe, Lynton, and Lynmouth. Sounds not like thunder. [X; 1131. (London Weekly Dispatch,September 5, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Sept 3 / early morn. / 3 dull rumblings and shocks at Alfracombe. 2 lesser shocks about an hour later. / Sunday Express 5-7-3. [X; 1132. (London Sunday Express, September 5, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1142-1143.]

1920 Sept 4 / BO / Might be 1921? / ab. 8 a.m. / Nude / Lewisham Borough News of 8th / Said went from her home, in Romer place, and climbed to the roof of house in Avenue A, and was not seen on the way. [D; 1142. (Lewisham Borough News, September 8, 1920.)]

1920 Sept 11 / BO / Thomson's W. News, 6-4—a naked woman on a roof in Lewisham Market, London. Police could do nothing—great crowd—fire brigade called out. Firemen had to induce her to jump and be caught. Finally she fell into a garden—not much hurt. Ellen Curtis, aged 28, of venue Road. / She had been a mental case, in her own home; was going to be removed to an asylum; had escaped. Remarkable circumstance is that the house was one or two blocks away.” Somebody quoted: “She must have leaped gaps between houses. These baps are undoubtedly not too wide for such a feat, but I think that very people (would care to attempt it.) [D; 1143.1, 1143.2, 1143.3. (Dundee Weekly News, September 11, 1920, p. 6 c. 4.)]

1920 Sept 6 / 6:30 p.m. / Slight shocks / s. France / 7th / n. Italy, at 7:55 a.m. / Ev. News 7-1-2 / Great damage in Italy. Villages ruined. [X; 1133. (London Evening News, September 7, 1920, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1920 Sept 6 / Ev. News 6-1-6 / At Batua, Algeria—waterspout burst and tore away trees and houses. [X; 1134. (London Evening News, September 6, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 Sept 6 / evening, and morning of 7th / q. / Pisa, Italy / D. Mail, 9th. [X; 1135. (London Daily Mail, September 9, 1920.)]

1920 Sept 6 / night / Violent q. / Nice and various parts of Italy. / D. Chronicle 8-1-4. [X; 1136. (London Daily Chronicle, September 8, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Sept. 7 / q. near Milan, Italy / D. News, 9-1-6 / 300 killed. / Roaring sounds preceded, ab 8 a.m. On 9th, 2:30 a.m. (10-1-5), violent shocks, Busano and other provinces. [X; 1137. (London Daily News, September 9, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.) (London Daily News, September 10, 1920, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1920 Sept 7 / 8 a.m. / Violent shocks, northern and central Italy. 15,000 homeless. / D. Chronicle 9-5-3. [X; 1138. (London Daily Chronicle, September 9, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Sept 7 / ab. 8 a.m. / All Italy north of Florence shaken. / D. Express 8-1-2 / People killed in ruins in one town, several by jumping out windows in their fright. [X; 1139. (London Daily Express September 8. 1920, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1920 Sept. 7 / Myst fires, Ongar, in this period, [D; 1144. (Ref.???)]

1920 Sept 7 / Sleeper / D. Chronicle, 7-3 / Mrs C.J. Racine been asleep for 2 years at county asylum, Warkesha, Wisconsin. [D; 1145.1. (London Daily Chronicle, September 7, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1920 Sept 9-10 / Severe shocks in Swiss Alps. / D. Express 11-1-6 / q. of 8th / 174 people killed. / Express 17-5-6 / N.M. [X; 1140. (London Daily express, September 17, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Sept 10 / Reported on 10th—Italy in the q. zone, active volcano in the Capuan Range. / Ev. News 10-5-5. [X; 1141. (London Evening News, September 10, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Sep 13 / Dull rumbling sound and q felt at Comrie. / Times, Sept. 14 / See July 20. [X; 1142. (London Times, September 14, 1920.) See: 1920 July 20-21, (X; 1110).]

1920 Sept 13 / Thought injury / D. Express / Woman with evil eye in Louvecinnes (Seine et Oise), France, Frightened people of town appealed to police. Said she was overcharged by a hotel keeper. She cursed him. 2 minutes later he fell and broke his leg. [D: 1145.2, 1145.3. (London Daily Express, September 13, 1920.)]

1920 Sept 14 / William Hughes, of Broadstairs, aged 90, missing, up to D. News, 29-5-6. [D; 1146. (London Daily News, September 29, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Sept 15 / Ev, Standard, 16th / 2 fires that broke out simultaneously in the Government offices in Tothill-street, Westminster. 2 simultaneously, then 2 more more simulataneously. Origin of each described as “doubtful”. [D; 1147. (London Evening Standard, September 16, 1920.)]

1920 Sept. 15 / Outbreaks of fires in 3 different Government offices in London. / D. Mail 16-7-4 / See Ap. 28. [D; 1148. (London Daily Mail, September 16, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.) See: 1920 Ap. 28, (D; 1060).]

1920 Sept. 15 / Fire / Govt office / See Ap 28, 1920. [D; 1149. See: 1920 Ap. 28, (D; 1060).]

1920 Sept. 17 / ab. 11 p.m. / 3 different fires in the Congregational Curch, Mitcham-road, Totting. / Sunday Express, 19-7-5. [D; 1150. (London Sunday Express, September 19, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 Sept 17 / Night. / Three myst fires, Congregational Church of Totting. / D. Chronicle 20-3-6. [D; 1151. (London Daily Chronicle, September 20, 1920, p. 3 c. 6.) “Mysterious Fires in a Church.” Dundee Courier, September 21, 1920, p. 4 c. 4. The three fires were in cupboards, and apparently the work of an incendiary.]

1920 Sept 19 / Sunday Express, 5-3 / Myst fires at Ongar, Essex. 2 men accusend arrested, but fires continue. [D; 1152. (London Sunday Express, September 19, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Sept 19 / (The People), 16-6 / Wild animal reported in Pennsylvania. Supposed ape. [D; 1153. (People, September 19, 1920, p. 16 c. 6; not at BNA.) “Posses Hunt Ape.” Phildelphia Evening Public Ledger, August 23, 1920, p. 6 c. 2.]

1920 Sept 20 / waterspout / 10 miles off Savona, near Milan, Italy. Gigantic waterspout est. a mile high shot out of the sea. Italian seismologists thought had something to do with the recent q's. / D. Chronicle, Oct 2-5-6. [X; 1143. (London Daily Chronicle, October 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Sept. 20 / Severe q. recorded. West Bromwich. Estimated 8,000 miles away, probably in the Pacific. / D. Express 23-5-5. [X; 1144. (London daily Express, September 23, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Sept 21 / In England, violent th. storms. / A waterspout over the sea at Lowestoft. 2 thunderbolts" at Lowestoft. One tore up road. / D. Mail 22-7-4. [X; 1145. (London Daily Mail, September 22, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 Sept. 21 / Severe q. recorded at W. Bromwich (near Birmingham). Thought been in Pacific. / D. Mail 22-7-4. [X; 1146. (London Daily Mail, September 22, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 Sept 23 / D. Express of, 5-6 / Cloudburst at Leghorn. [X; 1147. (London Daily Express, September 23, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Sept 24 / Floods, from torrential rains, in Savoy. / Ev. News 25-5-4. [X; 1148. (London Evening News, September 25, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 Sept 27 / Vesuvius explosive after activity of 3 months. / D. Express, Oct 4-1-3. [X; 1149. (London Daily Express, October 4, 1920, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1920 Sept 27 / BO / late at night / D. Chronicle 29-3-4 / Young man found in road at Kensworth, near Dunstable, in great distress—not know how got there, lost memory. Recovered his memory and said he was Leonard Wadham, employed by the Ministry of Health, Wlworth, London. / No idea how got to Kenworth. / Ab 30 miles from London. [D: 1154.1, 1154.2. (London Daily Chronicle, September 29, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1920 Oct, about / See Feb. 19, 1921. / Joan Lippincott, of Philadelphia, goes into a sleep of 130 days. [D; 1155. See: (1921 Feb. 19).]

1920 Oct 1-2 / night / Ev. News 2-5-3 / Severe shock, Cairo. Pajama-clad crowd in a panic. [X; 1150. (London Evening News, October 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Oct. 2 / Series of cloudbursts at Toulon. / Ev. News 2-5-5. [X; 1151. (London Evening News, October 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Oct 2 / Daily Mail of, 4-7 / Toads / Walter V. Brans, of 20 Wyncombe-road, Pokesdown, Hants, writes that on Ealing Common been thunder for some time, when rained long toads. "I can safely say by the million." He collected hundreds and took home to his mother, who at time of writing still had some in her garden. [X: 1152.1, 1152.2. (London Daily Mail, October 2, 1920, p. 4 c. 7.)]

1920 Oct 4 / (Fr) / morning / Clermont-Ferrand / q / MWR '20-623. [X; 1153. (Monthly Weather Review, 1920-623.)]

1920 Oct 8 / Destructive q / Philippines / Nature 110-61. [X; 1154. (Nature, 110-61.)]

1920 Oct 8 / q. / Vera Cruz, Mexico / Bull Amer 10-317. [X; 1155. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 10-317.)]

1920 Oct 13 / Twins / D. Chronicle of, 1-6 / Clarence Marsh, of Akron, Ohio, ill recently and placed under an anesthetic. At very instant, his twin sister, Clara, living with their parents, in Frederi[c]k, Maryland, was seized with nausea and fever. Then learned that some time before, had had nosebleeding simultaneously. [D; 1156. 1, 1156.2. (London Daily Chronicle. October 13, 1920, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1920 Oct 14 / D. News, 5-5 / Naked man running wild near Hythe. [D; 1157. (London Daily News, October 14, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Oct. 14 / N[u]de. / Nothing in Hythe Advertiser. [D; 1158. (Nothing in BNA search.)]

1920 Oct 15 / bet. 1 amd 2 p.m. / Deluge and damage at Borunemouth / D. Chronicle 16-3-3. [X; 1159. (London Daily Chronicle, October 16, 1920, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1920 Oct 16 / Thomson's Weekly News, 15-2. / 4 persons said had seen a figure of a woman in black, appearing and then vanishing, on the grounds of Gides Hall, Cardiff. [D; 1159. (Dundee Weekly News, October 16, 1920, p. 15 c. 2.)]

1920 Oct 16 / Vanishing woman in black. / Several in 1892. / See early in 1892. [D; 1160. See: 1892 Feb 8, (B; 1256); 1892 Aug 5, (C; 35); 1892 Sept 12, (C; 53); 1892 Sept 15, (C; 55); and, 1892 Oct 3, (C; 63).]

1920 Oct 17-19 / Giants / 3 mutilated bodies cast up at Deal, one a “giant”, 6 feet 5 inches, tattooed butterflies on each shoulder. In July-Sept, 1925, about 3 bodies of “giants” were cast up on English shores. These bodies nude and “terribly mutilated”. [D; 1161. (Ref.???)]

1920 Oct 18 / morning / On rocks, near Deal, body of a tattoed “giant” found. 20-stone; and 6 feet, 5 inches. / D. Chronicle 19-5-2 / Tat = birds, etc. [D; 1162. (London Daily Chroicle, October 19, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.) “Mystery on Deal Coast. Three Bodies Washed Ashore.” Belfast Telegraph, October 20, 1920, p. 4 c. 4.]

1920 Oct 18 / D. Chronicle 20-3-6 / “Sea mystery depends. 2 more bodies within few miles of each other—all three “terribly mutilated, and nude or almost. Details of tattoo of “giant here”. Butterflies, an anchor, etc. [D; 1163. (London Daily Chronicle, October 20, 1920, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1920 Oct. 18 / D. Chron., Nov. 3—said all mystery solved—from description of tattoo, Mrs Brown, of Sittingbourne, identified body as of her husband. [D; 1164. (London Daily Chronicle, November 3, 1920.)]

1920 Oct 19 / 8:15 p.m. / Brilliant meteor / Surrey / Nature 106-292. [X; 1157. (Nature, 106-292.)]

1920 Oct 19 / 9:15 p.m. / Ac to witnesses, the most brilliant meteor known to have been seen at Oxted. / Ev. Standard, 20th. [X; 1158. (London Evening Standard, October 20, 1920.)]

1920 Oct 19 / D. Mail of, 7-6 / Winnipeg / Great migration of lizards. [X; 1159. (London Daily Mail, October 19, 1920, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1920 Oct 19 / (F) / (20?) / (Fr) / Hautes-Pyrenees / q / MWR '20-623. [X; 1160. (Monthly Weather Review, 1920-623.)]

1920 Oct. 19 / Ev. News, 5-2. / The other body besides that of the “tattooed giant” was of a big tattooed man. Both supposed to be sailors from an unknown wreck. [D; 1165. (London Evening News, October 19, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1920 Oct. 22 / 9:30 p.m. / Shock / Granada, Spain / D. Express 25-1-4. [X; 1161. (London Daily Express, October 25, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Oct 22 / morning / Severe q / Rand, S. Af. / D. Express 25-1-4. [X; 1162. (London Daily Express, October 25, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Oct. 23 / Great bolide / France and Germany / 20 h., 40 min / Bull Soc Astro de F 1920-547. [X; 1163. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-547.)]

1920 Oct 23 / D. Mail, 7-6 / At Selby, Yorkshire, supposed ghost in white—several weeks before, a woman savagely attacked by it, or by someone disguised. [D; 1166. (London Daily Mail, October 23, 1920, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1920 Oct. 23 / Shortlands / disap house / Nothing in West Kent District Times. [D; 1167.]

1920 Oct 25 / D. Express, 5-4 / For 3 months a ghost been terrorizing Selby. [D; 1168. (London Daily Express, October 25, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 Oct. 25 / Ev Standard, 9-3 / Selby ghost. / Mrs Brewin saw a white figure crossing and re-crossing a field. [D; 1169. (London Evening Standard, October 25, 1920, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1920 (Oct 26) / BO / Disap / D. Chronicle, Oct 26, 1920 / House known as Hillside, at Shortlands, on Kingswood-road. Owner, named Brown, disappeared some years before. Early in 1920, the vicar of Shortlands Church found a boy unaccountably insensible in the grounds of the house. [D; 1170.1, 1170.2. (London Daily Chronicle, October 26, 1920.)]

1920 Oct 27 / [source unidentified], 5-3 / Mystery man, found, suffering from a haemorrhage, 2 weeks before, at Gravesend. Loss memory. [D; 1171. (Unidentified source, October 27, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Oct 28 / bet noon and 2 p.m. / Wide Area, Devonshire, shocks and sounds like gunfire. / D Mail 29-5-7. [X; 1164. (London Daily Mail, October 29, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Oct. 28 / q. / Chile / Ref, July 26. [X; 1165. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 Oct. 28 / 1 p.m. / Moretonhampstead / Shock. Doors rattled and windows shook several minutes. / E. Mec, Nov. 12. [X; 1166. (English Mechanic, November 12, 1920.)]

1920 Oct 28 / Noon and for 2 hours, "mysterious rumblings" at Exeter. Not known whether q or big-gun firing at sea. / D. Express 29-1-4 / Windows rattled and doors shook. / Heard in many other towns and villages. / Heard at Whitechurch-on-Thames, and then more distinctly from 6:45 to 7 p.m. / (Nov 1-4-7). [X: 1167.1, 1167.2. (London Daily Express, October 29, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.) (London Daily Express, November 1, 1920, p. 4 c. 7.)]

1920 (Oct 28 / D. Chron, 3-4) / Lost-memory man of ab. a month in Gravesend identified as a Londoner. [D; 1172. (London Daily Chronicle, October 28, 1920, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1920 Oct. 28 / Thomson's W. News, 4-[column not given]—Mr and Mrs. W.H. Robbins, or Dysart, Iowa, said that their child who died in Oct., 1919, aged 5 days, had been restored from grave to them ab. a year later. Said that an infant, one night, was placed between them, in bed—and a light—and a voice telling them that the child was restored, because of their faith. Said they had identified it by a birth-mark. [D: 1173.1, 1173.2. (Dundee Weekly News, October 28, 1920, p. 4.) “Spirit Restores Dead Baby Alive, Is Parent's Claim; Others Scoff.” Washington Times, September 13, 1920, p. 3 c. 2-3.]

1920 Oct 31-Nov 1 / night / Fire at Wapping and tremendous explosion, Oliver's Wharf. / gas-explosion / In a cottage nearby, 2 women died—Mrs Reynolds, aged 44, and her daughter, Jane Reynolds, aged 17, supposed from fumes from the fire. / D. News—2-5-4. [D; 1174. (London Daily News, November 2, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 Nov. 1 / (+) / At Antwerp / 0 h., 10 m / Brilliant bolide 53 seconds to 90 from near Alpha of the Whale to Alpha of Lyra. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1920-529. [X; 1168. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1920-529.)]

1920 Nov. 2 / Miss Lilian Tatham, aged 45, of Oxted, who had gone to Bath, for her health—went for a walk—disap. / Ev. Standard 20-6-2. [D; 1175. (London Evening Standard, November 20, 1920, p. 6 c. 2.)]

1920 Nov. 3-4 / night / Red sand / (Antibes) / An. Soc Met de F 64/119. [X; 1169. (Annuaire de la Societe Meteorologique de France, 64-119.)]

1920 Nov 4 / Storm "terrific", "Cyclonic", "one of the most severe" in Victoria. / Melb. Argus 5-7-2. [X; 1170. (Melbourne Argus, November 5, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Nov 4 and 6 / Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), orange red rain. On 6th, at Menton. / L'Astro 135-42. [X; 1171. (Astronomie, 135-42.)]

1920 Nov. 4 / Body of man thrown from a railroad carriage? / near Hereford / D. Express 5-5-4 / Thought to have climbed out window, because doors of carriage he was in were locked. / 6-3-1. / Name—Charles Haslam Smith, of Wrexham. No known troubles. [D; 1176. (London Daily Express, November 5, 1920, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1920 Nov. 6 / Saturday before Nov. 8 [X; 1172. Confirmed.]

1920 [Nov. 8] / ["Rain of Blood" in Riviera. / The New York Times]. [X; 1173. Newspaper clipping. ("Rain of Blood in Riviera." New York Times, November 8, 1920, p. 13.)]

1920 Nov. 8 / Red rain / Riviera / D. Mail 9-7-3. [X; 1174. (London Daily Mail, November 9, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1920 Nov 9 / A gale and "great clouds of dust" in Sydney. / Sydney Morning Herald 10-15-5. [X; 1175. "Boisterous Southerly." Sydney Morning Herald, November 10, 1920, p. 15 c. 5.]

1920 Nov. 14 / Lloyd['s] S. News, 3-6 / Loss memory man / Newmarket. [D; 1177. (Lloyd's Sunday News, November 14, 1920, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1920 Nov 15 and 16 / Leonids at Bristol, in moderate numbers. / Nature 106-451. [X; 1176. (Nature, 106-451.)]

1920 Nov. 15 / D. Chronicle, 5-3 / “Mystery man”, loss of memory, found wandering in Edgeware Road. / One the week before at Hornsey. [D; 1178. (London Daily Chronicle, November 15, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Nov. 17 / Bld. / Prof Brun's account / La Nature 1880/2/262. [X; 1177. (La Nature, 1880 pt. 2 p. 262.)]

1920 Nov. / Red like pollen / Ap 25, 1880. [X; 1178. See: (1880 Ap 25).]

1920 Nov. 17 / Bld / Aug 15, 1852. [X; 1179. See: (1852 Aug 15).]

[1920 Nov. 17. Wrong date. See: 1917 Nov. 17, (X; 1180).]

1920 Nov. 17 / Red rain / Wales / June 30, 1849. [X; 1181. See: (1849 June 30).]

1920 Nov. 17 / Gowman / Prof Brun / Bld / 1880. [X; 1182. See: (1880).]

1920 Nov 17 / Bld / See Dec 6, 1852. [X; 1183. See: (1852 Dec 6).]

1920 Nov. 17 / Blood / China / See Dec 13, 1887. [X; 1184. See: (1887 Dec 13).]

1920 Nov 17 / Like Gowman;s / May 1, 1863. [X; 1185. See: (1863 May 1).]

1920 Nov. 17 / D. Chronicle, 7-2 / Dogs dying of paralysis, in the Cray and Oprington districts of North Kent—veterinary surgeons baffled. [D; 1179. (London Daily Chronicle, November 17, 1920, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1920 Nov 17 / Orpington / See Dec 2, 1922. [D; 1180. See (1922 Dec 2).]

1920 / ab. Nov. 20 / Cambridgeshire / Sheep-panic + mets (?) / London Ev. News, Dec 18. [X; 1186. (London Evening News, December 18, 1920.)]

1920 Nov 23 / E Mec 112/214 / Cor saw projection from moon or a spot so bright it appeared to project from S.W. limb of moon, though telescope, made it out in region of Funerius and Stevinus. [X; 1187. (English Mechanic, 112-214.)]

1920 Nov. 26 / At Vergato, Italy, near Milan, explosion in a bomb-factory, heard 30 miles away. / Sunday Express 28-1-5. [X; 1188. (London Sunday Express, November 28, 1920, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1920 Nov. 26 / q. / Spain—Portugal / Ref, July 26. [X; 1189. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 Nov. 28 / Mrs Helen Gadd, of Tulse Hill, disappeared. / Lloyds S. News, 1921, Jan. 2-6-3 / A Mrs. Gadd in the Rugby woman chase. [D; 1181. (Lloyd's Sunday News, January 2, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.)]

[D; 1182. Note missing.]

1920 (Dec. 3) / At hospital in Fleet, man myst disappeared. Thought jumped from a window, but he had a broken leg. / James World / D. News, Dec 4-5-6. [X; 1190. (London Daily News, December 4, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Dec. 4 / myst wound / D. Mail of, 5-6 / Mis Gladys Rigden, 98 High-street, Whitstable. Ab 6 weeks before—struck on left knee in the street, by a missile. Immediately afterward a pain in her right leg. Pain continued. Ab. Dec one, an operation—and a 3½ inch piece of lead pencil removed. Thought been fired from air rifle with such velocity lost to view. [D; 1183.1, 1183.2. (London Daily Mail, December 4, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Dec 5 / W. Dispatch / Near Barmouth, more than 100 sheep found dead. [D; 1184. (London Weekly Dispatch, December 5, 1920.)]

1920 Dec 6-7 / D. Mail 8-7-5 / night / “Lonely house” fire near Billericay, Essex. Police passed it, 1 a.m. of 7th. / Man going to work, 4 a.m., saw 4 tottering walls where houe had been. 3 persons dead in.

[D; 1185, (London Daily Mail, December 8, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1920 Dec 7 / D. Chronicle, 3-2 / “Mysterious epidemic among sheep” upon farms along coast of Merionethshire, Wales. One farm alone, 100 died. [D; 1186. (London Daily Chronicle, December 7, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Dec 8 / Violent shocks / Nicaragua / D. Express 11-5-3. [X; 1190. (London Daily Express, December 11, 1920, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1920 Dec. 10 / Sheep Stampede / [Earthquake on Island in Adriatic.] / London Ev. News, [December 18, 1920.] [X; 1191. Newspaper clipping. (London Evening News, December 18, 1920.)]

1920 Dec. 10 / The sheep stampede in 30 flocks in 12 parishes all in one straight line in Cambridgeshire. / D. Mail 18-7-5 / See Nov 4, 1888. [X; 1192. (London Daily Mail, December 18, 1920, p. 7 c. 5.) See: (1888 Nov 4).]

1920 Dec 10 / Camb. D. News, 20th / Chief Constable had heard from a constable in Hampshire, who, at 3:30 in the morning, had seen a brilliant light. Another man had seen in the sky a brilliant light which he had watched 3 minutes, then going indoors—"a most startling light". [X: 1193.1, 1193.2. (Cambridge Daily News, December 20, 1920.)]

1920 Dec. 10 / sheep / Cambridge Daily News, Dec 13—that in elevn parishes all in a straight line from Hadstockamb. and Essex to Lode, Cambridgeshire, sheep broke out of their folds, Chief Constable Webb of Camb. was investigating but said that in 26 years experience he had never heard anything like it, "As far as can be ascertained the sheep do not appear to have been worried by dogs. It was thought that they might have been frightened by aircraft, but inquiries have elicited the fact that no aircraft was flying on Friday night." [X: 1194.1, 1194.2, 1194.3. (Cambridge Daily News, December 13, 1920.)]

1920 Dec 11, ab. / Albania / q's. / A mountain broken in 2 parts. / D. Express 15-5-7. [X; 1195. (London Daily Express, December 15, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Dec 11 / News in (Rome), (Italy), of disastrous q in Albania. / D. Express 13-7-3. [X; 1196. (London Daily Express, December 13, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1920 Dec 11 / qs and volc / Valdivia, Chile / D. Express 13-7-3. [X; 1197. (London Daily Express, December 13, 1920, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1920 Dec 11 / (q) / Dispatch from Rome so dated in Guernsey Star—q at Telefani. 200 killed. Town destroyed. [X; 1198. (Ref.???)]

1920 Dec 12 / Leaves not told of in Guernsey Star of 10th-17th. [X; 1199.]

1920 Dec 12 / leaves / For second time in month, a whirl at Guernsey. For ¼ hour, leaves fell from sky. / D. Chronicle 14-1-4. [X; 1200. (London Daily Chronicle, December 14, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Dec 13 / early morning / Bournemouth / Remarkable Geminids. 150 counted in ½ hour. / Nature 117-63. [X; 1201. (Nature, 117-63.)]

1920 Dec. 14 / The escaped Navy balloon landed near Moose Factory, Ontario. / Papers of Jan. 4. [X; 1202. (Ref.???)]

1920 Dec 14 / Sheep Myst / D. News of, 5-6. / Said that foot-and-mouth-disease prevalent among sheep at this time. But told that sheep dying daily on a farm at Fairbourne, Merionethshire, “without showing any outward sign of disease”. Fifty sheep had been found dead near Barmouth. [D: 1187.1, 1187.2. (London Daily News, December 14, 1920, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1920 Dec. 16 / Unexplained explosion of Lyghe powder mills, near Tonbridge. / D. Chronicle 18-3-2. [X; 1203. (London Daily Chronicle, December 18, 1920, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1920 Dec 16 / Prof. H.H. Turner, in L. Times, Dec 21, estimated be in Gulf of Mexico. [X; 1204. (London Times, December 221, 1920.)]

1920 Dec 16 or about / Fearful q. / Mendoza, Argentine. Chasms in earth and gigantic geysers. / D. Chronicle 22-5-7. [X; 1205. (London Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Dec 16 / Dec 20, date of dispatch about "recent q in Albania. / D. Chronicle 22-5-7 / Several villages suffered severely. [X; 1206. (London Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1920, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1920 Dec. 16 / Alfano, "Italy's foremost living authority on earthquakes, said was most liekly in Central America. / D. Chronicle 18-1-7. [X; 1207. (London Daily Chronicle, December 22, 1920, p. 1 c. 7.)]

1920 Dec 16 / q. / Kansu / See May 23, 1927. [X; 1208. See: (1927 May 23).]

1920 Dec. 16 / early morning / 2 violent shocks in Algiers. / D. Mail, 17th. [X; 1209. (London Daily Mail, December 17, 1920.)]

1920 Dec 16 / q. / China / Again, Aug 26, 1921. / See. [X; 1210. See: (1921 Aug 26). The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.]

1920 Dec 16 / Seis wrong / In W. Dispatch of 20th, Mr. J.J. Shaw, comparing records at Chicago and at his own observatory at W. Bromwich, placed q either in center of South America, "where earthquakes do not occur", or in Alaska. "There is little doubt,: he said, "that the Aleutian Islands are the center of the earthquake." [X: 1211.1, 1211.2. (London Weekly Dispatch, December 20, 1920.) The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.]

1920 Dec 16 / 12 h., 17 m / W. Bromwich / "Much interest has been aroused by the registration on December 16 of one of the greatest earthquakes, and the interest has been increased by the mystery which at present attends the position of its origin." / (Nature 106-542) / The oscillations so violent that the seismograph was thrown out of action. Various places suggested—China, Gulf of Mexico, South Pacific, Alsaka. / (See Times.) / Very mysterious—if in remote place, said that it must have been felt hundreds of miles from its center. / Nature 107-21, 370, 473 / Said in China (I think). [X: 1212.1, 1212.2., 1212.3. (Nature, 106-542.) The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.]

1920 Dec 16 / The great q in China. / La Nat Sup, July 9, 1921 / Estimated 180,000 perished. [X; 1213. ((La Nature Supplement, July 9, 1921.) The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.]

1920 Dec. 16 / q. was in province of Kansu, N.W. China, and shocks continued till 25th. / The People—Feb. 27, 1921 / Destruction over an area of 40,000 sq. miles. Thousands perished. Shock felt at Hong Kong. [X; 1214. (People, February 27, 1921; not at BNA.) The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake.]

1920 Dec 16 / D. News, 18-5-2 / "There was nothing in the evidence at the inquest held at Tonbridge last night to elucidate the mystery of the explosion at Lyghe powder mills. / The q. shockwas recorded Isle of Wight on 16th at 12:17 p.m. (17-5-2). / Explosion, I think, at night. Said that the two victims were upon the night shift. [X: 1215.1, 1215.2. (London Daily News, December 18, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.) (london Daily News, December 17, 1920, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1920 Dec 16 / (+) / q—[LT], 1921, Feb 22-6-d. [X; 1216. (London Times. February 22, 1921, p. 6 c. 4.)]

1920 Dec 17 and after / Violent on 28th / Shocks / Mendoza, Argentina / Ref, July 26. [X; 1217. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 Dec 17 / evening. / q. / Saseno Island, north of Valona Bay, in the Adriatic. Houses collapsed. 17 persons killed. / Ev. News 18-5-5. [X; 1218. (London Evening News, December 18, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Dec 17 / (+) / Boston police baffled by disap of Jane England, aged 50, a one-legged invalid, who had for two years been unable to leave her chair without help. / D. Express 17-1-1. [D; 1189. (London Daily Express, December 17, 1920, p. 1 c. 1.)]

1920 Dec 17, etc. / Noth. ab. Ottawa man, to Texas, in Ot. Ev. Citizen. [D; 1188. Ottawa Evening Citizen.]

1920 Dec 18 / (q's) / [18]—200 killed, Albania / 19—400, Argentina / 22—disaster at Yap Island, 1,800 miles south of Japan / D. Express 24-1-4. [X; 1219. (London Daily Express, December 24, 1920, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1920 Dec 22 / Volcano Asama, in Japan / D. Mail 28-6-4. [X; 1220. (London Daily Mail, December 28, 1920, p. 6 c. 4.)]

1920 Dec 23 / Tenn / q and rumbling sounds. / MWR '20-744. [X; 1221. (Monthly Weather Review, 1920-744.)]

1920 Dec 24 / N.Y.T., 5-5 / q. / Tenn. [X; 1222. (New York Times, December 24, 1920, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1920 Dec. 25 / “No news has been received of Mrs Elizabeth Littleboy, of Elm-road, Kingston, who disappeared Chrismas morning. he went downstairs at 5:30 to fetch her children's stockings, but did not return. / Lloyds Sunday News, Jan 2-2-5 / See L.T., Jan 3-7-d. [D:1190.1, 1190.2. (Lloyd's Sunday News, January 2, 1921, p. 2 c. 5.) (London Times, January 3, 1920, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1920 Dec. 28 / q / Mendoza, Argentina / 400 killed / Bull-Amer 11-84 / and Jan 3, 1921. [X; 1223. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-84.)]

1920 Dec 29 / 19 h., 45 m / At La Chaussée-sur-Marne (Marne), whole Eastern sky lighted by the explosion of a bolide. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1921-109. [X; 1224. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-109.)]

1920 Dec 29 / q. / Willow, Cal. / Ref., July 26. [X; 1225. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1920 Dec. 29 / Ghost said appeared in house of Mr. Robert Wright, Stansted, Essex. / D. News, 30-1-6 / The People, Jan 2-10-2. [D; 1191. London Daily News, December 30, 1920, p. 1 c. 6; not at BNA.) (People, January 2, 1921, p. 10 c. 2; not at BNA.)]

1920 Dec 30 / At time of heavy rains in Europe, a drought in Australia broken. In Symons', Jan., 1921, described as "a curious coincidence, if such it is". [X; 1226. (Meteorological Magazine, January 1921.)]

1920 Dec 31 / date of Eng. Mec. / Reports terrific q's, Caroline Islands, followed by hurricane. Date of q. ot given. [X; 1227. (English Mechanic, Deccember 31, 1920.)]

1920 Dec 31 / Dispatch of, from B. Ayres / D. Chronicle, Jan 1-5-2 / Alarming fresh shocks in Chile and western slopes of Andes. [X; 1228. (London Daily Chronicle, January 1, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1920 Dec, last of/ In “Aeroplane”, account of an aerodrome ghost. [D; 1192. (Aeroplane, ca. Dec., 1920.)]