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1921

1921:

[1921] / B.M. / Times / Ph. ships / Goodwin's / May 14-14-? / 1921 / See March 25, 1923. / See later note. [X; 1229. (Refs.???) See: (1923 March 25).]

1921 / Mostly in blue notes, California q's left out. / So many of them. [X; 1230.]

1921 / Lloyd's Sunday News to Sept 18. [X; 1231.]

1921 / Saturn and Jupiter in Leo-Virgo to Oct. / Saturn, Mars, Venus there in Oct. / Saturn and Mars in Nov. / Saturn there in Dec. [X; 1232. (Ref.???)]

1921 / Evil Eye / Kalamazoo, Mich. / See July 18. 1929. [D; 1193. See: (1929 July 18).]

1921 / H H / East Barnet, Herts. / See Dec. 26, 1926. [D; 1194. See: (1926 Dec 26).]

1921 / Phe house in Lymm, near Warrington, Chesire / See Sept 19, 1926. [D; 1195. See: (1926 Sept 19).]

1921 / Robberies at Barberton, Ohio. / See Sept 25, 1927. [D; 1196. See: (1927 Sept 25).]

1921 / H.H. / Kingston, England / See 1909. [D; 1197. See: 1909, (D: 262).]

1921 / Phe—home of Kendricks, at Bradford / See Aug 10, 1924. [D; 1198. See: (1924 Aug 10).]

1921 / Myst house / Chiswick / See Jan 28, 1925. [D; 1199. See: (1925 Jan 28).]

1921 / Stigmatic girl (Rose Ferron), of Woonsocket, R.I. / See March 25, 1928. [D; 1200. See: (1928 March 28).]

1921 Jan-May / 20 vanished vessels / See June 22. [D; 1201. See: (1921 June 22).]

1921 Jan / Woman found, wandering in Rugby, not yet identified. / D. Mail, Oct. 28, 1921. [D; 1202. (London Daily Mail, October 28, 1921.)]

1921 Jan / Sleeping sickness / See May 15, 1905. [D; 1203. See: 1905 May 15, (C; 976).]

1921 / ab. Jan. 1 / Augs / Several irregular black objects that crossed sun, looking like pieces of burnt paper. / Rev. Wm. Ellison / E Mec 112/276. [X; 1233. (English Mechanic, 112-276.)]

1921 Jan 1 / Thomson's W. News, 8-3 / Ghost—appearance of a strange man, calling “Mother”—wearing only shirt and trousers—in home of Robert Wright, retired farmer. of Hensham. [D: 1204.1, 1204.2. (Dundee Weekly News, January 1, 1921, p. 8 c. 3.)]

1921 Jan.2 / Lloyd['s] S. News, 3-3 / Nude man terrorizing women of Cardiff, of the year before, appears again. Nude under a cloak. [D; 1205. (Lloyd's Sunday News, January 2, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1921 Jan 3 / Rain of stars / At Serqueux (Seine-Inférieure), at 5:20 a.m., a bolide in Bernice's Hair. Aussitot, 4 or 5 other meteors. During 8 minutes, 16 were counted. / From 5:20 to 5:47, 35 were noted. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1921-109. [X; 1234. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-109.)]

1921 Jan 3 / Another strong shock, Mendoza. / See Dec. 17. [X; 1235. See: 1920 Dec 17 and after, (X; 1217). Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 Jan 3 / Loc. Mets like Jan 3-4, 1918. [X; 1236. (Ref.???)]

1921 Jan 4 / [LT], 10-e / Unknown Disease. [D; 1206. (London Times, January 4, 1921, p. 10 c. 5.)]

1921 Jan. 6 / nude / Nude body of a man found in a field at Greenstreet, near Sittingbourne. Identified—D. Chronicle 10-7-5; 11-5-6—as body of Arthur Osmund Maudy, aged 34, of Newham, (Kent), who had run 7 miles, wearing only socks—found dead of exposure. His brother had attempted to stop him, but overpowered. [D; 1207.1, 1207.2. (London Daily Chronicle, January 10, 1921, p. 7 c. 5.) (London Daily Chronicle, January 11, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Jan 8 / Towns in San Gabriele Valley, 20 miles east of Los Angeles, "rocked by what was declared to be a series of explosions. 3 from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Each was accompanied by a loud report. Otherwise the trembling resembled an earthquake." / MWR '21-50. [X; 1237. (Monthly Weather Review, 1921-50.)]

1921 Jan 8 / D. Express of, 5-2 / 12 cases had been treated, in Charing Cross Hospital, of hiccoughs. Cases on the Continent. [D; 1208. (London Daily Express, January 8, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Jan 10 / Hickman, Ky. / 3:54 p.m. / q / Bull Amer 11-85. [X; 1238. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-85.)]

1921 Jan. 10 / 0 h., 40 m / Mayenne / q and deep rumbling sound / Bull Soc Astro de F 1921-82. [X; 1239. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-82.)]

1921 Jan 18 / early morning / D. News 19-1-5 / Girl, Mary Sutton, of 34 Brocas-street, vanished from her bedroom. Window if room open, In nightdress, but without hat or shoes, and thought without skirt over nightdress. [D; 1209. (London Daily News, January 19, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Jan 18-19 / In North Dakota, ground covered with snow but great clouds of dust precipitating. / M.W.R., July, 1921 / Consisting of cinders thought to have come from local railroad tracks and fibrous matter. [X; 1240. (Monthly Weather Review, July, 1921.)]

1921 Jan 19 / q / Glens Falls / MWR '21-50 / Also Jan. 27. [X; 1241. (Monthly Weather Review, 1921-50.) See: (Jan. 27).]

1921 Jan 19, 27 / q's / region of Glens Falls, N.Y. / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1243. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 Jan. 19 / Corinth, NY / (q.) / 5 o'clock, sic / 7, at Lake George / NY Times, Jan 20-7-1. [X; 1242. (New York Times, January 20, 1921, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1921 Jan 19 / Fires broke out, different partss of Worcester. / D. News. 20-1-3. [D; 1210. (London Daily News, January 20, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Jan 22 / dispatch, NYT 23-1-5 / Investigation demanded by residents of Stokes County, N. Car. Sounds like distant blasting in Hat Shvat Mt. [X; 1244. (New York Times, January 23, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Jan. 22 / Thomson's W. News, 7-4. / In Montreal, William Holland killed by Major Robert Griffiths, who thought that Holland had hypnotic or occult control of him. [D; 1211. Dundee Weekly News, January 22, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.) (Major Robert Griffiths, not Mayor.)]

1921 Jan 23 / Hair / The People, 9-7. / At Glenshamrock Farm, Anchinleck, Ayrshire, a burglar, who also took money and other valuables, entered the bedroom of Miss N. Kennedy and cut off her plait of hair. [D; 1212. (People, January 23, 1921, p. 9 c. 7; not at BNA.)]

1921 Jan 23 / The People, 16-6 / In Dietersheim, in the home of a servant, in the presence of her nine-year-old daughter, Marie Paetsch, objects flying about whenever she entered the house. Investigated and vouched for by Dr. Schnifzstein, of the neighboring village, Neustadt-on-Aisch. Outside house, stones and clods of earth dropped around her—but rose first. [D: 1213.1, 1213.2. (People, January 23, 1921, p. 16 c. 6.; not at BNA)]

1921 Jan 24 ./ Polts—fire / D. Chronicle, 5-5—at home, in Sevres, suburb of Paris, of M. Gelin, father-in-law of the War Minister's chief secretary, a cook and polt. phe. She dismissed. A man appeared. Said was a corcerer and told other girl to go out. She did, House found later in flames. Supposed the man had stolen things. [D: 1214.1, 1214.2. (London Daily Chronicle, January 24, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Jan 25 / 2 a.m. / Flashes of light / Sunbury-on-Thames / Symons 57/13 / (1921 or 22?) / Flashes of light, as brilliant as lightning in the summer, following one another in quick succession, lighting up the whole countryside. In the north, but working around to the west and then to the southwest but a lull and in the north again, and then seemingly from all directions. Cor watched till 2:45 a.m. Says he heard that they, or lightning, seen in London between 11 p.m. and midnight. Says that no reports upon lightning had been received b the Meteorological Office. No storm mentioned. [X: 1245.1, 1245.2, 1245.3. (Meteorological Magazine, 57-13.)]

1921 Jan 26 / 6:45 p.m. / Violent explosion felt in southern N.J. and E. Penn. / Philadelphia, 100 inquiries at Weather Bureau alone. / (q) / NYT 27-3-1. [X; 1246. (New York Times,January 27, 1921, p. 3 c. 1.)]

1921 Jan 26 / Philadelphia / an earth tremor or an explosion of great violence / MWR '21-50. [X; 1247. (Monthly Weather Review, 1921-50.)]

1921 Jan 27 / 3rd shock in less than 2 weeks in Lake George region. / NYT 28-9-6. [X; 1248. (New York Times, January 28, 1921, p. 9 c. 6.)]

1921 Jan 28 / N.Y. Times, 24-2 / Metite / Somerset, Pa / (not found). [X; 1249. (New York Times, January 28, 1921, p. 24 c. 2.)]

[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1215-1217.]

1921 Jan 28 / BO / (Rugby) woman / For six or seven months she was in charge of the Board of Guardians. The Board advertised for three months in the “War Cry” but without avail. Then women of Rugby became so interested that they formed a committtee, named “Our Neighbor Committee”, and she was taken to live; first with Mrs Gadd, 61 Manor Road; and then with Mrs Grey, 23 Sandown Road, Rugby. “The woman is very refined and ladylike, and has evidently moved in good society. She speaks French and Italian fluently and is an accomplished pianist and needle woman.” All she could say was that she believed her name was Nina Elizabeth with a surname that ended with “leigh”. She had faint ideas of the island of Guernsey, of hunting and of an Irish jaunting car.” The Committee had aroused interest in the Press, throughout Great Britain, and many letters received, but not one that identified her, and no findable observation before she appeared in the market place. / Rugby Advertiser, Oct 28. [D: 1215.1 to 1215.5. (Rugby Advertiser, October 28, 1921.)]

1921 Oct 28 ./ BO / D. News, 5-6—photo published of “the mystery-woman of Rugby, found there, loss memory, many months before, and not identified. Anyone recognizing, asked to communicate with the Secretary of “Our Neighborhood Committee, 61 Manor-road, Rugby. / In D. News, Oct 31-5-5, said she had appeared in Rugby, one Sunday morning, at 4:15 o'clock. The most puzzling circ. was that she was wearing high-heeled Court shoes and could not have walked far. No one like her noticed at the railroad station nor seen on a road. [D: 1216.1, 1216.2, 1216.3. (London Daily News, October 28, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.) (London Daily News, October 31, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Jan 23 / BO / 5:45 a.m. / The myst woman of Rugby / Rugby Advertiser, Feb 1. [D; 1217. (Rugby Advertiser, February 1, 1921.)]

1921 Jan. 28 / A Mrs Gadd disap—See Nov 28, 1920. [D; 1218. See: 1920 Nov. 28, (D; 1181).]

[1921 Jan 28] / Cor / Myst woman of Jan 28, 1921 / Write—Mrs. Gadd, 61 Manor Road / Mrs Grey, 23 Sandown Road, Rugby. [D; 1219.]

1921 Jan 28 / Rugby / My letter to Mrs Grey returned—not known at that address. [D; 1220.]

1921 Jan 31 / D. Mail of / 1st story of Polts at Hornsey. / Lumps of coal leaping out of the fire. They thought explosives in the coal. [D; 1221. (London Daily Mail, January 31, 1921.)]

1921 Feb. / Hornsey / Coal “exploded”. / See before and next year. [D; 1222. (Refs.???)]

1921 Feb / Hornsey / Coal explosions later, see Sept. 15, 1921. [D; 1223. See: (1921 Sept 15).]

1921 Feb., etc. / Polt and coal / March 14, 1909. [D; 1224.1. See: 1909 March 14, (D; 295).]

1921 Feb / Hornsey / See Elec. boy, Dec 24, 1885. Not elec if not iron, etc., objs. [D; 1224.2. From Box E. See: (1995 Dec 24).]

1921 Feb. / Frost house / At first, when big lumps of coal leaped out of the fire and broke the kitchen windows, Mr. Frost thought explosives been mixed in the coal. / See other coal-explosion cases. / Light, Feb 5, 1921. [D: 1224.3, 1224.4. From Box E. (Light, 41 (no. 2,091; February 5, 1921): .)]

1921 Feb / In one of the accounts in the Hornsey Journal is mentioned the “tragic death” of these children. [D; 1224.5. From Box E. (Hornsey Journal, ca. Feb. 1921.)]

1921 Feb. / (Hornsey) / In a letter published in the Wisbech Advertiser, Feb. 28, 1923, the Rev. A.L. Gardiner (Bounds Green, No. 11, London) said that the phe continued 6 months and ceased only when the 2 boys were sent to live somewhere else, and that he could attrib to nothing but a poltergeist. [D: 1224.6, 1224.7. From Box E. (Wisbech Advertiser, February 28, 1923.)]

1921 Feb / Hornsey / Nothing of Mrs. Parker in L.T., Ap., 1920. [D; 1224.8. From Box E.]

1921 Feb. / Coal explosions / See Sept 15, 1921. [D; 1224.9. From Box E. See: (1921 Sept 15).]

1921 Feb / polt / In Liverpool Echo, May 2, said that the boy Gordon taken with convulsions. Had been sent to the Lewisham Hospital, where the doctors could identify no known disease. Also lost his memory. On April 25th, after his departure, objects flew about rooms. [D: 1224.10, 1224.11. From Box E. (Liverpool Echo, May 2, 1921.)]

1921 Feb / polts / T.S. Frost. [D; 1224.12. From Box E.]

1921 Feb / Hornsey / See coal explosions—Jan., 1923. [D; 1224.13. From Box E. See: (1923 Jan.).]

1921 Feb. / Frost. polt / Coal explosions / See Dec 5, 1922. [D; 1224.14. From Box E. See: (1922 Dec 5).]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. D: 1224.15 & 1224.16.]

1921 Feb / Hornsey / North Middlesex Chronicle, 26—that the boy Gordon taken to Broadstairs, and Bertie to Bounds Green—point here is that no phe from them in these other places. / Name of the children was Parker. / March—5, about a column by A.L. Gardiner, vicar of St. Gabriels, Bounds Green, who had taken one of the boys. As to him the phe did occur when he was in the house—he especially mentions objects moving as if thrown around. / March 12—account by Dr Herbert Lemerle, of Hornsey. The usual, and “an unaccountable disappearance of a small clock”. Also—breakable objects being thrown to floor without damage—swinging of a pot from a tripod, when no human being was near it—all occurring only when one or both of the boys in the house—says that of members of family he could, as medical adviser of the family, certify that all were physically well and mentally fit.

[D; 1224.17 to 1224.22. From Box E. (North Middlesex Chronicle, February 26, 1921.) (North Middlesex Chronicle, March 5, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 17 / Explosions / Sickness / (Hornsey) / Ev, Standard, 7-3 / 3 weeks, at No. 8 Ferrostone-road, family of Mr. Frost and their grandchild Gordon, an anaemic boy whose mother had died in April before. Pieces of coal mysteriously dropping or whizzing around the room. Said that a police inspector picked up one piece and it broke into 3 pieces and vanished. There were explosion and rumblign sounds. The boy finding a piece of coal in the bathroom kicked it down the stairs. Whereupon the police said that he had thrown all the pieces of coal. The boy was taken from home one night—and no phe in his absence. But moment returned and opened the front door, brushes flew off the hat stand. [D; 1224.23 to 1224.26. From Box E. (London Evening Standard, February 17, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb 1 / D. Mirror / At first all phe in coal. Coal so suspected that Mr. Frost sent back what was left of it to the merchant who had supplied it. [D: 1224.27, 1224.28. From Box E. (London Daily Mirror, February 1, 1921.)] 1224.m.1&2

1921 Feb 3 / night / severe q / Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1250. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 Feb. 4 / Great q. in S. Mexico. / D. Chron, 7th. [X; 1251. (London Daily Chronicle, February 7, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 4 / Destructive q / Tehuantepec, Mexico / Nature 106-769. [X; 1252. (Nature, 106-769.)]

1921 Feb. 4 / At Georgetown Seismological Observatory, D.C., a greater q than of Dec 16th recorded. 3:28 a.m. till 4:45 a.m. / D. Chronicle, Feb. 5. [X; 1253. (London Daily Chronicle, February 5, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 4 / q. recorded, estimated 78° W. Long; 7 N. Lat. (near Panama), by Prof. Turner. / L.T. 8-6-c / 10-6-c—Turner says was at Tehuantepec, NW of Panama. [X; 1254. (London Times, February 8, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.) (London Times, February 10, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb 4 / Hornsey Journal of, 8-4—The account is of “haunted coal” which exploded and moved around mysteriously—also (+) with fFlames—“a showerbath of glowing embers which rained from the walls and seemed to come through the ceilings without leaving marks”—that is so alleged. / began ab last of Jan. / Feb 25-8-5—phe continuing—that ac to a Hornsey newspaper man he had seen a clothes horse “gallop” around a room, and a flatiron, a coal scuttle and other objects dance. / 4 instances of runaway horses, different days, during the week in North London here recorded (25-8-4). / March 11-8-4—Mrs Frost fallen into the hands of a spiritualist “Circle” and communication established—“Are you the spirit of my daughter? If so knock!” The spirit knocks. Other questions. Other knocks. / Ap. 1-6-3—a tree on fire or Hampstead Heath (N.M.) / (+) Ap. 1-8-1—“We are sorry to learn that the child Muriel, aged five years, the sister of the boys Gordon and Bertie, at 8 Ferrestone-road, Hornsey, died yesterday morning. The child was obviously unwell last week, and the family then thought her sickness had been accelerated, if not caused by, the strange manifestations which have occurred there. For some time the child took no notice of the happenings, but on one occasion a chair fell over quite near her and she bit her tongue. After that she showed signs of extreme nervousness. (Since Gordon, the elder boy, returned home last week, and joined his brother, the manifestations have resumed. Both boys were sent round to a neighbor's house yesterday morning, and then the house was quiet again.” / Meanwhile several cases of runaway horses. One death by—Ap 8-3-2. Ap 8-8-3—an account of the funeral and that when the boys in the house the phe continuing. / Ap 15-8-3—Interview with the Rev. A.L. Gardiner, who had been interested himself in the case from the eraliest phe—what he calls the cruelty of saying that it could have been trickery by the children. He thinks of possibility that an imp had been imprisoned for ages in coal. The first phe were of explosions and moving coals. / Ap. 22-8-1—outbreak of window scratching in North London—92 windows in Hampstead—however all over London. / Ap. 29-6-3-+—damage to windows continuing in N. London. / Ap. 29-8-3—More phe at the house, where the boy Bertie was at home. The boy Gordon, at Brockley, was in such a condition that it was thought desirable to place him in an infirmary. “He apparead to have lost his memory, but is better now.” / May 13-7-1—on 8th a public meeting had been held in Hornsea to debate the phe. / May 20-8-5—Berrtie, the younger boy, seldom home—when wa shome the phe revived. Gordon was still in the hospital but his condition was improving. Said that when Bertie was absent there were no phe. / Find no more. [D: 1228.29 to 1228.45. From Box E. (Hornsey Journal, February 4, 1921, p. 8 c. 4.) (Hornsey Journal, February 25, 1921, p. 8 c. 5.) (Hornsey Journal, February 25, 1921, p. 8 c. 4.) (Hornsey Journal, March 11, 1921, p. 8 c. 4.) (Hornsey Journal, April 1, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.) (Horsnsey Journal, April 1, 1921, p. 8 c. 1.) (Hornsey Journal, April 8, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.) (Hornsey Journal, April 8, 1921, p. 8 c. 3.) (Hornsey Journal, April 15, 1921, p. 8 c. 3.) (Hornsey Journal, April 22, 1921, p. 8 c. 1.) (Hornsey Journal, April 29, 1921, p. 6 c. 3+.) (Hornsey Journal, April 29, 1921, p. 8 c. 3. (Hornsey Journal, May 13, 1921, p. 7 c. 1.) (Hornsey Journal, May 20, 1921, p. 8 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb 4 / Hornsey / to May / (Hornsey Journal), 8-4 / Phe to death of one child, And illness of other—not at first anaemic? [D; 1228.46. From Box E. (Hornsey Journal, Febryary 4, 1921, to May.)]

1921 Feb 11 / q. / Farenza (Ravenna), Italy / on Adriatic coast / Ref, July 26, 1920. [X; 1255. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 Feb. 17 / [LT], 7-c / 18-7-d / Polt / Hornsea. [D; 1228.47. From Box E. (London Times. February 17, 1921, p. 7 c.3.) (London Times, February 18, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.)] p

1921 Feb. 18 / D. News of. / Hornsey /Ages were Gordon—11; Bertie—9. First phe were bomb-like explosions. [D; 1228.48. From Box E. (London Daily News, February 18, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 18 / D. Mail, 5-4 / The Hornsey, London, ghost. Not Hornsea. Said that night of 16th the boy Gordon spent night in anothe rpart of town, but the phe went on. There were the two other children in the house. / Yes. [D: 1228.49, 1228.50. From Box E. (London Daily Mail, February 18, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb. 20 / Sunday Express, 7-6. / Condition of Mr. Frost—“haggard and ill and seemed on the verge of collapse”. [D; 1228.51. From Box E. (London Sunday Express, February 20, 1921, p. 7 c. 6.)]

[1921 Feb 4] / It's the Hornsey and Finsbury Park Journal. [D; 1228.52. From Box E.]

1921 Feb / In North London papers—number of sudden deaths. [D; 1225. (Refs.???)]

1921 Feb / The missing ships told of in June start. / But Deering on Jan 31. [D; 1226.1.]

1921 Feb / Sleeping Sickness / See Feb., 1920. [D; 1226.2. From Box E. See: (1920 Feb).]

[The following seven notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1227-1233.]

1921 Feb 1 / Sleeping Sickness / D Mail / 3 more cases in Birmingham, one proving fatal. / At Oldham (+) Union Infirmary a young woman died after 10 days unconsciousness. “This mysterious disease, which bears no resemblance to the sleeping sickness of Africa, is said by a medical authority to leave its victim with a 'mask-like face.” In a Leader said that cases in France and in Sweden. / 3-5-3—76 new cases in London in a month. 271 in England and Wales. Four of them in Bradford. The disease was first noticed in England in 1918. It often lasts several months. Sometimes the victims do not recover mentally. [D: 1227.1, 1227.2, 1227.3. (London Daily Mail, February 1, 1921) (London Daily Mail, February 3, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb 12 / D. Express, 1-3 / Myst cat disease like the human victims of the sleeping sickness. They inconscious and die. Hundreds of cats dying in London shelters. Mostly kittens and young cats. Broke out first at Saffron Walden, Essex. [D; 1228. (London Daily Express, February 12, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb. 26 / Thomson's W. News, 1-5. / Miss Amy Duckworth, Surrey village, 6 miles from Brighton. Trance 6 days. No apparent beating of heart. [D; 1229. (Dundee Weekly News, February 26, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb 11 / D. Mail of, 5-6 / Cats with sleeping sickness in Saffron Walden, North Essex, and 10 miles around. Cats lie in a sleeping condition a few hours and then die. [D; 1230. (London Daily Mail. February 11, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 (Jan 15-22) / Acton District Post (London), Feb 4-2-6 / During the week ended Jan 22, 21 caes of sleeping sickness in London. 2 in Fulham, 1 in Hammersmith, 1 in Fulham, 1 in Kensington. [D; 1231. (Acton District Post, London, February 4, 1921, p. 2 c. 6.)]

1921 Feb 18 / Kensington Express, 6-3—Sleeping sickness among the dogs of Hayes, Kent. In Aberdeen, a woman and a boy to the hospital. The boy had been almost continuously asleep for 11 days. [D; 1232. (Kensington Express, February 18, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb. 22 / Ev. Standard, 6-1 / “The mysterious epidemic among dogs, at Hayes, Kent, has now spread to cats and ferrets.” [D; 1233.1. (London Evening Standard, February 22, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 Feb / See (Warwick) for child burned ab. March first. [D; 1233.2. From Box E. See: (1921 March???).]

1921 Feb. / Polts and fires / See Oct 6, 1880. [D; 1233.3. From Box E. See: (1880 Oct 6).]

1921 Feb / The fire near Downham / Times, 1920, Dec 8-9-d. [D; 1233.4. (London Times, December 8, 1920, p. 9 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb / Myst Malady, France—Dec 4-9-c / 11-9-f. [D; 1233.5. From Box E. (London Times, December 4, 1920, p. 9 c. 3.) (London Times, December 11, 1920, p. 9 c. 6.)]

1921 Feb. / As the fires of 1913 were in a period of suffragist outrages, so Feb., 1921, Sinn Fein fires in England. [D; 1233.6. From Box E.]

[1921 Feb 4 / [Hampstead Fire Mystery.] / [The Evening Standard]. [D; 1234. Newspaper clipping. (London Evening Standard, February 4, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 4 / In Webbe's house. There were 8 persons in the house, including 3 servants. / D. Mail, Feb 5-5-5 / 7-5-4—at Addington, near Croydon, 10:30 p.m., Feb 5, 16 ricks burst into flames. Someone said he saw 6 men, wearing soft hats and black coats, and carrying a heavy bag, near the farm. [D; 1235.1, 1235.2. (London Daily Mail, February 5, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.) (London Daily Mail, February 7, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb 4 / Standard, Feb 15-6-1 / “Second Mysterious Outbreak at Oldham / at cotton-spinning mill / Said that at week-end there had been evidence of incendiarism but that for fire of 13th, “Nothing of a suspicious nature could be discovered.” [D: 1235.3, 1235.4. From Box E. (London Evening Standard, February 15, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 Feb 8 / D. News, 5-6—in little village of Fleur de Lys, Monmouthshire, a woman who been blind 23 years recovered her sight. / News, 11-5-4—that in Pengam, seems the same illage, a girl who supposed to be dead of lung disease recovered on 3rd day. / News of 12th says that this story of the girl could not be confirmed. [D: 1236.1, 1236.2. (London Daily News, February 8, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.) (London Daily News, February 11, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.) (London Daily News, February 12, 1921.)]

[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1236.3-1236.6.]

1921 Feb 8 / Date of firing from trains, in D Mail 11-5-5 / quote Mail.   [D; 1236.3. From Box E. (London Daily Mail, February 11, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb 18 / Story in Kensington (London) Express of, 6-3, near Basingstoke and at Compton. Near Winchester—troops firing from a train. A colt and a cow—at diff times in the day—so not from the same train. [D: 1236.5, 1236.6. From Box E. (Kensington Express, February 18, 1921, p. 6 c. 3.)]

1921 Feb 11-12 / Oldham Standard of Feb 19-7-4 / “In a ring round Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham, and Stockport, fires were reported almost simultaneously in various mills, showing undoubtedly a concerted plan of outrage—Four Oldham mills are mentioned—Three of the fires were on the 12th—7:20 p.m.; 7:29 p.m.; and 10:30 a.m. of 13th (Sunday).No circumstances suggesting arson mentioned, but the fires were supposed to be Sinn Fein outrages. / The next Saturday night at 11:50 a fire in still another mill. A tram driver said that he saw two men jumping over the gate of the mill, at the time—but his story not accepted—“The authorities, we are informed, have, however, satisfied themselves that there were no suspicious circumstances about the fires.” And 2:59 p.m. of the 20th (Sunday) a fire of unknown origin broke out in a pile of lumber in the yard of a second-hand furniture dealer / Had been a mill fire 9th and evening of 11th—These fires of unknown origin, but no circumstances suggesting arson mentioned. The extraordinary thing is the 1913 and 1921 fires in periods of fire outrages. It is as if Suffragists and Sinn Feiness thought fires, and they broke out. [D: 1236.7 to 1236.14. (Oldham Standard, February 19, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.)]

[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1237-1239.]

1921 Feb 11 / Hampstead and Highgate Express, 12th / “Between early morning yesterday week (4th) and early on Monday morning (7th) no fewer than 13 mysterious fires in home of Lieut Col Weber.” Ac to L.C. Weber: “A search showed that someone had concealed little bits of wax candles wrapped in paper in various places. One was found in my bed, which was set on fire an hour after I got out of it. A lead0loaded stick which I put at the side of my bed after the first series of fires was afterward found beneath the mattresses. Whoever put it there evidently intended I should not use it. Having regard to the action I have taken on the advice of the police I do not think I shall be troubled with any further outbreaks.” / Though I do not now find it so stated, I think that he caused the arrest of his servant girl and that she was convicted. / I should write to Col. Webber about this. Did he find those bits of candle or did a detective find them? [D; 1237.1 to 1237.5. (Hampstead and Highgate Express, February 12, 1921.)]

1921 Feb  /Hampstead Fires / [source unidentified], Feb 5-5-6. [D; 1238. (Source unidentified, February 5, 1291, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb. 4 / On night of Feb 7, four more fires. / Ev Standard 8-6-2 / In the bathroom, 1st and second floors; and in front rooms on 1st floor. / N.M. / (3). [D; 1239.1.  (London Evening Standard, February 8, 1921, p. 6 c. 2.)]

[The following two notes were clipped together by Fort. D: 1239.2-1239.4.]

1921 Feb 13 / Hospital Fires / Story told same (6 p.m.) in Leamington Chronicle 18-4-5. Said that it was at once surmised that the fires had been of incendiary origin because it was seen that books and papers had been soaked in paraffin—as to the incendiary nothing could be supposed except “a weak-minded individual bent on some obscure vengeance, or an uncertified lunatic. / It was house governor's office. [D; 1239.2. From Box E. (Leamington Chronicle, February 18, 1921, p. 4 c. 5.)]

1921 (Feb 4) / Feb 13 / night / Leamington / at Warneford Hospital / (Standard 14-8-2) / “One out-break was in the house-surgeon's sitting room, another in the house-governor's office, and a third in th matron's store-room. [D: 1239.3, 1239.4. From Box E. (London Evening Standard, February 14, 1921, p. 8 c. 2.)]

1921 Feb / Warrford / [Letter to Fort, from W. Russel Rudall, May 26th, 1924.] [D; 1239.5. (Letter from W. Russel Rudall to Fort; May 26, 1924.)]

1921 Feb. 14 / Jour. Soc. for Psychic Research. 20-199—In the village of Hopfgarten, near Weimar, young man who had been giving public exhibitions in hypnotism and spiritualism, named Otto Sauerbrey. His step-mother, Frau S., was suffering from an incurable internal complaint of long standing. On the 10th, Otto returned home, and went away on 12. On 14th, sounds like pounding in the house. Frau. became worse. Phe centered around her. She feared her stepson and said his eyes she always saw before her. She died March 27, of her old ailment. [D: 1239.6, 1239.7, 1239.8. "The Hopfgarten Poltergeist Case." Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 20 (January 1922): 199-207.]

1921 Feb. 17 / (Standard 17-2-1) / “Unsolved Fire Mystery—lonely villa that disappeared in the night”—The inquest held, after a wait of 2 months. Mr and Mrs Stanley Wilton, and Robert Palph, a servant. It was at Downham, Essex, in Dec. It burned downed and nothing known of the fire until next day the ruins of it seen and the 3 charred bodies. [D: 1240.1, 1240.2. (London Evening Standard, February 17, 1921, p. 2 c. 1.)]

1921 Feb. 19 / Sleeper / Thomson's W. News, 2-1—Miss Joan Lippincott, of Philadelphia, awakes after a sleep of 130 days. [D; 1241. (Dundee Weekly News, February 19, 1921, p. 2 c. 1.)]

1921 Feb. 19 / Drean-Came True / Thomson's W. News, 11-2. / As brought out at the inquest of Charlotte Johnson, aged 19, School Street, Tursdale Colliery, near Coxhoe. She had told her mother that she had dreamed she had been knocked down by an engine. A few dayes later, her body was found on the main line of North Eastern Railway. Verdict was suicide. [D: 1242.1, 1242.2. (Dundee Weekly News, February 19, 1921, p. 11 c. 2.)]

1921 Feb. 19 / A child in London stabbed by someone unknown. Later in the year—People, Nov 13-16-6—a child four years old, Nancy Michaels, of Collins street. West minster, London, in the street found stabbed in back and untraced by unknown person. [D: 1242.3, 1242.4. From Box E. (People, November 13, 1921, p. 16 c. 6; not at BNA.)]

1921 Feb. 21 / (morning) / Ev. Standard 21-6-4 / Just before 7 a.m., policeman saw a young woman, in her nightgown, walking in South-End-road, Hampstead. He took her, still sleeping, to the Hamp. General Hospital. Here it was learned that her home was in Mansfield-road, half a mile from where policeman met her. Yet people in street, but had attracted no attention. [D: 1243.1, 1243.2. (London Evening Standard, February 21, 1921, p. 6 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb 21 / D. Express, 5-4 / Mr. W. Tipper, an engraver—a green fly alighted on his hand. Not said stung him, but that he flicked it off and then, several hours later, his hand and arm swelled and operated on for blood poisoning. Thought the green fly from a tropical country with a consignment of fruit. [D; 1243.3, 1243.4. From Box E. (London Daily Express, February 21, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb 22 / early morning / Barn burned at Woodley. No known origin but suspected to be “another incendiary outrage”. / Ev. Standard 22-10-2. [D; 1243.5. From Box E. (London Evening Standard, February 22, 1921, p. 10 c. 2.)]

1921 Feb. 23 / D. Mail / Venus visible at noon, rather high toward southeast. [X; 1256. (London Daily Mail, February 23, 1921.)]

1921 Feb. 24 / D. Express, 1-6 / Inquest of a child died in Mile End, London, said been killed by septic poisoning of a rat's bite. Its mother testified that it had been bitten by a rat that she had seen running from it, a month before. [D: 1243.6, 1243.7. From Box E. (London Daily Express, February 24, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Feb. 25 / D. Chronicle, 5-4 / Ghst in white reported been seen by many people in village of Cressing, near Braintree, Essex. Farmer driving along road saw object, and struck it with whip—dummy figure, rigged up with strings, by boys—that said be it. [D; 1244. (London Daily Chronicle, February 25, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

[The following twenty-one notes were clipped together by Fort. E: 1-21.]

1921 Feb 26 / Ev Standard 26-6-4 / “Mystery farm fire—barns and haystacks at Hunston, Suffolk. Night before, a mysterious rick fire at Barnet. Had been one there several weeks before. [E.1, (London Evening Standard, February 26, 1921, p. 6 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb 4 / St LT Larger Index. Arson case. I think a Jewish name. / On 14th, man on trial for setting fire to premises, 11 Arthur St., E.C. Ac to one witness there had been four different fires; ac to other tesimony only one fire. He was acquitted. So no origin known. / Standard 14-3-2. [E.2. (London Times Index, ca, February, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 8 / [LT], 7-c / Rick fire / West Molesey Farm. [E; 3. (London Times, February 8, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

[The following two notes were clipped together with the paper clip by Fort. E: 4 & 5.]

1921 Feb. 12 / Sinn Fein Fires? / Manchester Guardian, Feb 14 / That this night, fires—Manchester, Rochdale, Failsworth, Royton, Hollinwood, and Stockport. The watchman of Holt Town Oilworks told a story of how he had prevented three armed men from setting fire there. No trace of them found by anyone else, except a mark said be a mark of a bullet that one of the men fired at him. Evidence not clear. One place found bits of a bottle that may have contained paraffin. Another place a can of lubricating oil found tilted so that it would pour on oil; ashes said been of some handkerchiefs supposed been soaked in oil; windows said been cut and not broken by the firemen. But another story by a watchman, that two men woth revolvers made him stand with his face to a wall, while they started a fire. It was such a small fire that he put it out with a bucket of water. At Rochdale, the sprinklers in a mill put out a fire. Here said was found a bottle of water from the sprrinklers, but that paraffin had been in the bottle previously and that spent matches were found. / Guardian, 15th—some Irishmen had been detained but all released. Though the fires had occurred early in the evening no one had come forward to tell of anything that would corroborate the stories told by the two watchmen. [E: 4.1 to 4.7. (Manchester Guardian, February 14, 1921.) (Manchester Guardian. February 15, 1921.)]

1921 Feb 12 / Manchester fires / The two watchmen and their unsupported stories. Anything to do with hypnotic delusion? Story of one might be of some watchman trying to be credited with efficiency. [E; 5.]

1921 Feb 15 / Fires / D. News, 1-6, to tracing fires in Lancashire to Sinn Feiners, Chief Constable Sir Robert Peacock quoted: “Statement[s] that we have traced the affairs to Sinn Fein are baseless.” [E; 6. (London Daily News, February 15, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

[1921] F[eb] 11th / Standard / Fire unknown origin at Preston. / Standard 12-3-2 / Fire of unknown origin in a mail car that [note cut off] Paddington. 9 p.m. / 11th / (Standard, 12th, 6-2). [E; 7. (London Evening Standard, February 11, 1921.) (London Evening Standard, February 12, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.) (London Evening Standard, February 12, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1921 Feb. 9 / A fire of origin described as “doubtful” in the pawnshop of Mr. S. J. Thomson, in Hammersmith road, West Kensington. On 21st, two more like it. / Ev. Standard 22-12-2. [E; 8. (London Evening Standard, February 22, 1921, p. 12 c. 2.)]

1921 Feb 13 / D. Mail 14-7-5 / Part of the roof of Kensington Court Mansions destroyed by “a mysterious outbreak of fire”, 3:40 p.m. [E; 9. (London Daily Mail, February 14, 1921, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb 11 / D. News of, p. 3 / Crown forces burning houses at village of Abbeydorney, Ireland. [E; 10. (London Daily News, February 11, 1921, p. 3.)]

1921 Feb. 5 / night / At Croydon, near London, 18 stacks of wheat, in 3 different fields, simultaneously burst into flames. / D. News. 7-1-6. / Police scoured the district but no evidence of any kind found. [E; 11. (London Daily News, February 7, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Jan. 29 / 3 serious rick fires simultaneously in the High Barnet district, near London. / D. News. 31-5-6. [E; 12. (London Daily News, January 31, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Feb / Fires / See March 26. / See July 9. [E; 13. See: 1921 March 26, (E: 14 & 15), and (1921 July 9).]

1921 March 26 / night / About 40 farm fires in South Northumberland, North Durham, and North Yorkshire. / D. News 28-1-3 / “In many cases, oil was found.” [E; 14. (London Daily News, March 28, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 March 26 / near Newcastle / ab 8 p.m. / Fires / Wallsend, Jarrow, Consett, Stanley, Kenton, South Shields. [E; 15. (Refs.???)]

1921 March 21 / W. Dispatch, 7-5 / Epidemic of wheat-rick-burnings near St. Albans. [E; 16. (London Weekly Dispatch, March 21, 1921, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1921 March 9 / After 8 p.m., around Liverpool, 11 farm fires. / D. Mail 10-7-6. [E; 17. (London Daily Mail, March 10, 1921, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1921 March 2 / night / Near Manchester, hayricks on 5 farms burned. / D. News 3-5-3 / Said that near one of the fires bottle of paraffin found. [E; 18. (London Daily News, March 3, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 March 2 / night / 6 fires in 17 minutes in farmyards over an area 2 miles wide in the Hendon district. Bottles containing paraffin found, so attrib to Sein Finn agents. / D. Express 4-5-5. [E; 19. (London Daily Express, March 4, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Feb 21-22 / night / Fires in large barns. One near Stockport; one near Bury. Unknown origin. / Manchester Guardian, Feb. 23-4-4. [E; 20. (Manchester Guardian, February 23, 1921, p. 4 c. 4.)]

1921 Feb. 17 / [LT], 6-a / Air Mystery. [E; 21. (London Times, February 17, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 Feb. 27 / 9:36 p.m. / q registered at Eskdalemuir (dumfires-shire), estimated to be in Central Italy. / D. Express, March 1. [X; 1257. (London Daily Express, March 1, 1921.)]

1921 March 1 and 2 / 1st—2 large meteors, Bristol / 2nd—3 others / Nature 107-55. [X; 1258. (Nature, 107-55.)]

1921 March 9 / D. Express, 1-6 / Phe, St Tomas' Church, Regent-street. Ac to the Rev. Clarence May, uncanny knockings had been heard by the caretaker and her nephews; and early one morning he had seen a ghostly figure cassocked, kneeling in the church. [E; 22. (London Daily Express, March 9, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 March 11 / 10 p.m. / Shock / Fairbanks, Alaska / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1259. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 March 11 / D. Express, 5-4 / 4 missing girls at Hull. / See Ap. 17. [E; 23. (London Daily Express, March 11, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.) See: 1921 Ap. 17, (E; 39).]

1921 March 14 / New comet / Johannesburg Observatory / D. News 19-1-3. [X; 1260. (London Daily News, March 19, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 March 14 / 6:15 a.m. / Terre Haute, Ind / q. / Bull Amer 11-86. [X; 1261. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-86.)]

1921 March 15 / N.Y.T., 32-3 / q. / Illinois and Indiana. [X; 1262. (New York Times, March 15, 1921, p. 32 c. 3.)]

1921 March 16 / 8:33 p.m. / Magnif met, Scotland and north of England. Brilliant illuminations. Loud detonations. / Nature 107-153. [X; 1263. (Nature, 107-153.)]

1921 March 16 / D. Mail, 5-6 / At Sutton, Surrey, a girl who set house afire several times, “I do not know what made me do it.” / D.M., 19th—several haystack fires at Sutton, night of 18th. / Mail, 26th—girl admitted 2 of these fires. [E; 24. (London Daily Mail, March 16, 1921, p. 5 c.6.) (London Daily Mail, March 19, 1921.) (London Daily Mail, March 26, 1921.)]

1921 March 19 / [LT], 9-d / Comet. [X; 1264. (London Times, March 19, 1921, p. 9 c. 4.)]

1921 March 24 / bet 5:30 and 6 p.m. / Yuma, Arizona / shock / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1265. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 March 24 / Disastrous q / Kansu and Shensi, China / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1266. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 March 25 / 13 h, 13 m / 29—7 h, 27 m / Fireballs / London and S.E. Eng / Nature 107-182. [X; 1267. (Nature, 107-182.)]

1921 March 27 / Thunderstone said fallen upon the Place St Pierre, at Rome. Lightning? Stone not found. / La Nature Sup, Ap 23, 1921. [X; 1268. (La Nature Supplement, April 23, 1921.)]

1921 March 27 / with fires of this period / The People, 9-5 / At Sutton Police Court, Lottie Drake, aged 18, domestic servant, accused by her employer, Mrs. Seaver, of “Lynton”, Station road, Belmont, of 3 times setting house afire, remanded for mental examination. Said to have confessed, adding, “I had no reason for doing the fires.” [E: 25.1, 25.2. (People, March 27, 1921, p. 9 c. 5; not at BNA)]

1921 March 28 / 2:55 a.m. to 5 a.m., maximum at 3:01 a.m. / Tremors recorded at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Center calculated 1,900 miles away. / D. News 29-3-3. [X; 1269. (London Daily News, March 29, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1921 March 28 / 2 a.m. / San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua / strong shock / Ref—July 26, '20. [X; 1270. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 March 29 / NY Times, 10-1 / Personal ghost / Trenton, N.J. [E; 26. (New York Times, March 29, 1921, p. 10 c. 1.)]

1921 March 31 / N.Y.T., 1-7 / Syracuse, N.Y. / q. [X; 1271. (New York Times, March 31, 1921, p. 1 c. 7.)]

1921 April / [untitled clipping about will-o'-the-wisp] / C.F. Talman / H Trib, July, 1931. [E; 27. Newspaper clipping. (Unidentified source, Refs.???) (New York Herald Tribune, July, 1931.) (Talman, Charles F. “Strange Lights Are Unexplained.” Maclean's Magazine, November 1, 1931, p. 43; from Herald Tribune. Prof. L.A. Hausman, of Rutgers, observed five small blue lights in a marsh.)]

1921 April / Lights / Cayutaville, N.Y. / See other notes. [E; 28. See: 1921 Ap. 7, (E; 36).]

1921 April / (See earlier in year.) / Window slashing began in London ab. Ap. 15 and spread over England. Attrib to Sein feinners. [E; 29. (Refs.???)]

1921 Ap. 1 / Sharps, Va. / Stone meteorite / Pop. Astro 38-260. [X; 1272. (Popular Astronomy, 38-260.)]

1921 Ap 1 / D. Chronicle, 3-2 / Ghst in empty house where a woman had died, in Wellingborough. Said been seen. It shook house and windows. Northamptonshire. [E; 30. (London Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1921 Ap. 2 / D. Express of / Mr. Frost quoted—when the 2 boys returned to his house, middle of March, the phe renewed. Chairs and lumps of coal thrown around. The little girl, their sister, Muriel Parker, aged 5, had a nervous breakdown and died Ap. 1. / BO. [E; 31. ("Ghosts Cause a Child's Death." London Daily Express, April 2, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Ap 2 / D. Mail / Child Muriel said died of meningitis. Said had been badly scared since a bedstead rose, knocking her down, causing her to bite her tongue. [E; 32. (London Daily Mail, April 2, 1921.)]

1921 Ap. 3 / Sunday Express, 7-1 / Spectre of a owman said be haunting house occupied by a Mr. Forshaw on a lonely road at Withnell, near Chorley, Lancashire. [E; 33. (London Sunday Express, April 3, 1921, p. 7 c. 1.)]

1921 Ap. 3 / W. Dispatch, 1-4 / Ghost near Trenton, N.J., ac to N.Y. Ev. World. [E; 34. (London Weekly Dispatch, April 3, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.) “Ghost Watchers See Queer Things But Nary A Spook.” New York Evening World, April 1, 1921, p. 6 c. 1-8.]

1921 Ap. 6 / Holbrook, Arizona—west to Winston and east to Gallup, N.M. / shock / Ref, July 26, '20. [X; 1273. Refer to: 1920 July 26, (X; 1113). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-83.)]

1921 April 6 / 2 shocks at Holbrook, Arizona. / B Seis Soc Amer 11/140. [X; 1274. ( (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-140.)]

1921 April, about / Inf. conjunction Venus-sun. / 1916 / 5 / 6/ June 7. [X; 1275. (Ref.???)]

1921 Ap 6 / D. Chronicle, 5-3 / Man found dazed in Hampstead. Later said name was Merrick, of Stafford—how got there could not explain. [E; 35. (London Daily Chronicle, April 6, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Ap. 7 / Near Cayutaville, N.Y., “fine display of will-o-the-wisp. / N.Y. Times, July 3, 1927 / Described by Prof L.A. Hausman, in the Mentor, May, 1925. [ E; 36. (New York Times, July 3, 1927.) (Hausman, Leon Augustus. “The Mystery of the Will-o'-the-Wisp.” Mentor, 13 (May 1925): 58; at E.J Pratt Library, Victoria University, University of Toronto, 71 Queen's Park Crescent East.)]

1921 Ap. 8 / Eclipse of sun / London. [X; 1276. (Ref.???)]

1921 Ap. 9 / Parkers / Thomson;s W. News, 2-3 / Mr. Frost quoted. “There is not the slightest doubt that Muriel's death was caused by the strange happenings in the house. The doctor reported meningitia as the cause, but said that nerve-shock had accelerated death.” [E; 37. (Dundee Weekly News, April 9, 1921, p. 2 c. 3.)]

1921 Ap 11 / D. News of / Frost phe / Rev. A.L. Gardiner, Vicar of St. Gabriel's Wood Green, quoted. “There can be no doubt of the phenomena. I have seen them, myself.” As co him the phe began with explosions in coal and appearance of coal in rooms where there had been none. [E; 38. (London Daily News, April 11, 1921.)]

1921 Ap 15 / Dust fell on a vessel in Yellow Sea—coincided with a cyclone in Mongolian Desert. / M.W.R. 1922-301. [X; 1277. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-301.)]

1921 Ap. 17 / See March 11. / Sunday Express, 7-2 / Myst disap child, Carrie Boddy, at Hull. [E; 39. (London Sunday Express, April 17, 1921.) See: 1921 March 11, (E; 23).]

1921 April 18 / meteor / noon / 15 miles off Halifax, from Cunarder S.S. Saxonia / Meteor, burst, leaving a huge column of smoke. Radio operator reported unusual electric disturbances (at Halifax?) 24 hours before meteor—then stopping. / D. Chronicle 20-1-6. [X: 1278.1, 1278.2. (London Daily Chronicle, April 20, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Ap. 19 / night / Thunderbolt at Edmonton. / D. Mail 20-5-6. [X; 1279. (London Daily Mail, April 20, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Ap. 19 / early morn. / 3 waterspouts at Mentone. / D. Mail, Ap. 20. [X; 1280. (London Daily Mail, April 20, 1921.)]

1921 Ap. 19 / N.Y.T., 3-6 / Met / Halifax. [X; 1281. (New York Times, April 19, 1921, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1921 Ap. 19 / Myst hair-cutting in London. / D. Express 20-5-3 / One case—Miss Daisy Taylor, aged 16, Salisbury Ave, Barking. Coming from underground train, found her long plait severed, holding by several strands. [E; 40. (London Daily Express, April 20, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 April 20 / Pitts, Georgia / Iron meteorite / Pop. Astro 38-359. [X; 1282. (Popular Astronomy, 38-359.)]

1921 Ap 20 / 350 windows in London slashed. / D. News 21-1-4 / Next day hundreds more, and in Dover and Worcester. [E; 41. (London Daily News, April 21, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Ap. 24 / The People, 7-3 / Miss Daisy Tyler, aged 16, a golden-haired typist, of Salisbury-ave., Barking, leaving an Underground train, found that her one long plait of hair had been cut so as to hang by a slender strand. “The extraordinary thing is that, though the train was crowded at the time, nobody saw the offender at work.” Said that other cases had been reported. [E: 42.1, 42.2. (People, April 24, 1921, p. 7 c. 3; not at BNA.)]

1921 Ap. 24 / Sun. Exp., 7-2 / Myst disap. Maud Samuels, 16-year-old girl of Swansea. [E; 43. (London Sunday Express, April 24, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 Ap. 24 / Body of a young well-dressed colored man found in a gorse bush, at Beechy Head, near Eastbourne. If suicide, cause not known. / D. News 25-1-4. [E; 44. (London Daily News, April 25, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Ap. 27-28 / Meteor-train of long duration / Antwerp / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-20 / Bull 1922-171 / at 12 h, 40 m / The train from Ophiuchus toward Leo, visible till 13 h, 20 m. [X; 1283. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-20.) (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-171.)]

1921 Ap. 30 / At Comrie. brilliant sunshine—then sky murky and a shock. Houses severely shaken. / D. Express, May 2-5-3. [X; 1284. (London Daily Express, May 2, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Ap. 30 / (1) / D. News of / Gordon Parker had been with friends, at Brockley, and while there had to be forcibily restrained in his convulsions. Taken to L. Hospital. Had lost his memory. [E; 45. (London Daily News, April 30, 1921.)]

1921 (May) / Woman at Deal / See Sept. 7, 1921. [E; 46. See: (1921 Sept 7).]

1921 May 1-7 = 4th / This week, sometime during th. storm, something like a bomb fell from sky and set a tree on fire near Bath. / D. Chronicle 7-3-5. [X; 1285. (London Daily Chronicle, May 7, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1921 May 1 / Disap of Mr. Arthur Goodrop, one of the best-known trademen of Bath. Seen in the street, last Sunday, May 1, and no other trace of him. / D. News 7-5-3. [E; 47. (London Daily News, May 7, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 May 3 / Body of a well-dressed man found hanging from a tree at Leatherhead. Face disfigured with warts. / D. News 4-5-1. [E; 48. (London Daily News, May 4, 1921, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1921 May 4 / At Midford, near Bath—a fireball fell. A hedge burst into flames and smouldered despite falling rain. Had been a copper-colored patch in sky. / D. Mail, 6-5-3. [X; 1286. (London Daily Mail, May 6, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 May 8 / In th. storm, at Raukokore, N. Zealand, hailstones more than an inch long and wide fell so slowly they only "pattered". / Symons, Oct., 1921. [X; 1287. (Meteorological Magazine, October 1921.)]

1921 May 8-14-21 / middle of May / Large group of sunspots. / Nature 107-369, 399, 427. [X; 1288. (Nature, 107: 369, 399, 427.)]

1921 May 9-18 / Big sunspot / E. Mec 113/212. [X; 1289. (English Mechanic, 113-212.)]

1921 May 11 / (+) / See June 22. / Off Aberayon, Cardiganshire. Fishing boat, 2 men in it, seen to sink without apparent cause. Bodies of the men not found. / D. Mail, 12th. [E; 49. (London Daily Mail, May 12, 1921.) See: (1921 June 22).]

1921 May 13-15 / Aurora / 13-17 / mag. storm / Nature 107-392. [X; 1290. (Nature, 107-392.)]

1921 May 13 / Phantom ships—Goodwins / See March 25, 1923. [X; 1291. See: (1923 March 25).]

1921 May 13 / 10 p.m., until 14 at 8 a.m. / Magnetic effects in Sweden so strong that impossible to speak through telephone between Copenhagen and Stockholm. / Great aurora, too. / W. Dispatch 15-1-5. [X; 1292. (London Weekly Dispatch, May 15, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 May 13 / Mirage of land and ships in the sky off the Goodwin Sands. No ships visible on the sea. / D. Chronicle 14-1-6. In the sky. [X; 1293. (London Daily Chronicle, May 14, 1921, p.  c. 6.)]

1921 May 13-16 / The mag. storm at Samoa. / Met. Mag. 56-188. [X; 1294. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-188.)]

1921 May 14 / B.M. / N.Y. Times, 10-2 / 15-1-4 / 17-1-7 / 17-4-3 / 18-12-2 / 22-II-1-1 / 26-18-1 / Great aurora / and elec. disturbance. / P.P. / 9760.a. [X; 1295. (New York Times, May 1921: 14 / B.M. / N.Y. Times, 10-2 / 15-1-4 / 17-1-7 / 17-4-3 / 18-12-2 / 22-II-1-1 / 26-18-1.)]

1921 May 14 / Aurora / Science, N.S., 54/14, 183. [X; 1296. Douglass, Andrew Ellicott. "The Aurora of May 14, 1921." Science, n.s., 54 (July 1, 1921): 14. Lindley, J. Gary. "The Aurora Seen from Sinaloa, Mexico in Latitude 27° N." Science, n.s., 54 (July 1, 1921): 14. "Observations of the Aurora at the Lowell Observatory May 14, 1921." Science, n.s., 54 (September 2, 1921): 183-187.]

1921 May 14-15 / Aurora in Argentina. / M.W.R. 1922-20. [X; 1297. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-20.)]

1921 May 14 / [source unidentified], 14-? / Phantom ships on the Goodwins. [E; 50. (Unidentified source, May 14, 1921, p. 14.) (“Phantom Ships.” London Daily Herald, May 14, 1921, p. 5 c. 5. A mirage of sailing ships and a steamer was observed but the actual ships could not be seen.)]

1921 May 15 / 2 a.m. / Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey / musical aurora / E Mec 113/211. [X; 1298. (English Mechanic, 113-211.)]

1921 May 15 / Brilliant aurora / Australia and N. Zealand / D. News 18-5-2. [X; 1299. (London Daily News, May 18, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 May 15 / D. Chron. 17-5-4 / A reindeer appeared on a farm. / Wales. At Penlrhyn, Deudraeth. Thought escaped from Abergele Park, 80 miles away. [E; 51. (London Daily Chronicle, May 15, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 May 15 ./ Reindeer / As told in Abergele and Pensarin Times, May 21, a stag had appeared at the place 80 miles away, and surmised the animal had escaped from Kimmel Park, Abergele. [E; 52. Abergele and Pensarin Times, May 21, 1921.)]

1921 May 15 / Said in Liverpool Echo, 17th, that in the chase, the reindeer lost its antlers, which were picked up. [E; 53. (Liverpool Echo, May 15, 1921.)]

1921 May 19 / [LT], 7-d / Sunspots and Earth storms. [X; 1300. (London Times, May 19, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1921 May 20 / At Kingsclere, Newbury, young man with loss of memory. / D. Express 25-5-4 / His underclothes marked G.M. Willey. [E; 54. (London Daily Express, May 25, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 May 21 / [LT], 8-a / Q recorded in Scotland. [X; 1301. (London Times, My 21, 1921, p. 8 c. 1.)]

1921 May 21 / Standard of / Gibraltar / That recently, in a thunderstorm, thousands of frogs (little) had fallen. / See May, 1915. / See May, (?) 1915. / 1822 / May 14. [X; 1302. See: 1915 May 28, (X; 442), and, (1822 May 14; not here).]

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1921 May 21 / D. Express of, 5-5 / At church at Thaxford, Essex, of which the red-flag flying, Rev. Conrad Noel was pastor, been an attempt to revive the old industry of weaving church vestments. This work in a church had shocked many people. Looms left locked in a room—yet next day, found to be tampered with. Threads in warp pulled out so that took long to set right. Thought spirits at work. [E: 55.1, 55.2. (London Daily Express, May 21, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 May 21 / D. Chronicle, 1-5 / Many people of Thaxted objected to use of looms in a church—perhaps their thoughts had something to do with interferences. My idea—not copied. [E; 56. (London Daily Chronicle, May 21, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 May 22 / W. Dispatch, 5-4 / Sudden atmospheric disturbances at Dijon, th. storms and hailstorms noted at times of magnetic disturbances and sunspots. [X; 1303. (London Weekly Dispatch, May 22, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 May 22 / Sunday Express, 7-3—Plague of snakes, South africa. Python discovered in a shed of the convent at King's Rest, Durban. 12 feet long. / A cobra appeared in grocery store of Mr. D.H. Achse, at Graff-Reinet. As told—“The plague of snakes continues.” [E; 57. (London Sunday Express, May 22, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 May 24 and 25 / D. Express of / A human head said been seen floating in the pond in Hampstead Heath, but it could not be found. Dragging operations 2 days. [E; 58. (London Daily Express, May 24, 1921.) (London Daily Express, May 25, 1921.)]

1921 May 24 / D. Chronicle, 7-4 / “Mass madness” in East Prussia, near battlefield of Tannenberg. People flocking to the top of a mountain where said was a buried city of gold. [E; 59. (london Daily Chronicle, May 24, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1921 May 25 / D. News of / Samuels girl of Swansea said been found. [E; 60. (London Daily News, May 25, 1921.)]

1921 May 25 / D. News 25-5-7 / 3 girls missing from Cosham, near Portsmouth. Near Tipnor Magazine had been discovered clothing and human hair. Not thought to relate to them. [E: 61.1, 61.2. (London Daily News, May 25, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 / end of May / Remarkable black spot on Jupiter by Sargent. / Bull Soc Astro de F., 1921-478 / 1922-18. [X; 1304. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-478, 1922-18.)]

1921 June / Liverpool Echo, July 1 / Been the driest June in 100 years. [X; 1305. (Liverpool Echo, July 1, 1921.)]

[1921 June] / [Seasonal Changes in Lunar Craters.] / W.H. Pickering. / (Roy. Astron. Soc., M.N. 81. pp. 490-495, June, 1921.) [X; 1306. Magazine clipping. Pickering, William Henry. "Seasonal Changes occurring in Certain Lunar Craters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 81 (June 10, 1921): 490-495.]

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1921 June / Invisible hands / In D. Mail, Oct 14, 1921, T. Gifford writes that at a point by a brook on the road near Medmoor, a doctor riding on his motor bicicle, with 2 children in a side-car, called to them to jump. Next instant the machine swerved and the doctor killed. hildren unhurt. Several weeks later, at this point a motor coach suddenly swerved, and several passengers thrown out. Upon Aug 26, a Capt. M. was thrown from his motor-cycle here. Interviewed by Mr. Gifford. After some evasions he told that invisible hands had siezed upon his, forcing the machine into the turf. / In Daily Mail, Oct 17, told that point was on the road nearer the Dartmoor village of Post Bridge. In first instance, the doctor was Dr. E.H. Helby, Medical Officer of Princetown Prison. [E: 62.1 to 62.4. (London Daily Mail, October 14, 1921.) (London Daily Mail, October 17, 1921.)]

1921 June / [Evil Ghost of a Moorland Road.] / Sunday Express, Sept 12, 1926. [E; 63. Newspaper clipping. (London Sunday Express, September 12, 1921.)]

1921 / The road mishaps. A cor. in “Light”, Aug 26, 1922, writes, “A further accident at the same spot was narrowly averted less than a month ago.” [E; 64. “The Hairy Hands of Dartmoor.” Light, 42 (no. 2,172;  August 26, 1922): 540.]

1921 June / Ape story / Another on L.I., Nov 4, 1922. [E; 65. (Ref.???)]

1921 June 1 / Enormous waterspout burst, at Douro, Portugal, destroying four parishes. / D. News 2-1-7. [X; 1307. (London Daily News, June 2, 1921, p. 1 c. 7.)]

1921 June 4 / Clbrst / D. Chronicle, 6th / Great cl. brst, Pueblo, Colorado. More than 500 drowned. Sudden, as if dam had burst. [X; 1308. (London Daily Chronicle, June 6, 1291.)]

1921 June 4 / Colorado / Cloudburst / Sc Am 124-494. [X; 1309. (Scientific American, n.s., 124-494.)]

1921 June 4 and 5 / Hottest June days, with one exception—June 10, 1915—ever recorded in Germany. / D. Chronicle 7-7-3. [X; 1310. (London Daily Chronicle, June 7, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 June 4 / dispatch dated from Vienna / Heavy cloudburst and enormous damage in different places in Lower and Upper Austria and Styria. / D. Chronicle 6-9-3. [X; 1311. (London Daily Chronicle, June 6, 1921, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1921 June 5 / Terrific th storms. 15 farms set on fire by lightning on island of South Zealand. Reported from Copenhagen. / D. Chronicle 7-1-5. [X; 1312. (London Daily Chronicle, June 7, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 June 6 / Reported from Berlin—worst floods ever known around Franfort-on-Main. / D. Chron—7-7-3. [X; 1313. (London Daily Chronicle, June 7, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 June 6 / "Waterspouts" hit Lille, France. / D. Chron, 7-1-6. [X; 1314. (London Daily Chronicle, June 7, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 June 7 / D. Chronicle of / "Weather conditions resulting in waterspouts, cloudbursts, and violent rain have nothing to do with sunspots," said the Director of the Meteorological Department to a 'Daily Chronicle' representative yesterday. [X: 1315.1, 1315.2. (London Daily Chronicle, June 7, 1921.)]

1921 June 8 / See hail, etc, and magnetic, May 22. [X; 1316. See: 1921 May 22, (X; 1303).]

1921 June 8 / Tremendous thunderstorms, fatal strokes of lightning, floods, damage to crops, throughout France. / D. Chronicle 9-5-2. [X; 1317. (London Daily Chronicle, June 9, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 June 8 / Polt and burnings / Daily Mail and Empire (Toronto), 1-4 / In the town of Knechtenhofen, near Augsburg, family named Blenck—whole family; B, his wife, and 9 children, of whom 5 were grown. Said that their house ruined and furniture burned. Neighbors saved one of the children whom they were trying to burn at command of ghosts. [E: 66.1, 66.2. (Toronto Mail and Empire, June 8, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 June 9 / ab. 9 p.m. / Great det met. / Blanco, Texas / Pop. Astro 29-450. [X; 1318. (Popular Astronomy, 29-450.)]

1921 June 11 / Severe drought, British Honduras. / On 11th, floods following a heavy storm in San Salvador. / Meteorological Magazine 56-172. [X; 1319. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-172.)]

1921 June 11 / Shower fishes / Gulf of Mexico / An and Mag Nat Hist 10-3-23. / [note cut off] Loo, / Tree shipped / Sept 1, 1[note cut off]. [X; 1320. (Gudger, Eugene Willis. "More Rains of Fishes." Annals and Magazine of Natural History, s. 10 v. 3 (1929): 1-26, at 23.)]

1921 June 11 / After a prolonged dry period—great forest fires in Nova Scotia. / N.Y. Herald 12-2-7. [X; 1321. (New York Herald, June 12, 1921, p. 2 c. 7.)]

1921 June 12 / was Sunday / Nothing in N.O. Picayune, nor N.Y. Herald, 10-15. [X; 1322. (No reference apart from Gudger.)]

1921 / ab. June 12 / [magazine clipping] / Sat. E. Post, [October 9, 1926] / Sent by D.F. Gorman, 166 Mauzer St., St. Paul, Minn. [X; 1323. (Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1926.)]

1921 June 14 / 10 a.m. / Thousands of persons stood in the streets of New York, looking [at] a dot of light in the southern sky, not far from the meridian, and was seen in the west long after noon. Ac to Leon Barrett, publisher of the "Monthly Evening Sky Map, it must have been planet Venus, then nearing elongation, and would reach maximum brilliance, July 1. / N.Y. Herald, June 15, p. 24. [X: 1324.1, 1324.2. "Wasn't a Comet At All That New York Gazed At." New York Herald, June 15, 1921, p. 24 c. 2-3.]

1921 June 15 / After a drought in Georgia, equalling a record in 1879, torrrential rains. / N.O. Times-Picayune, 16th. [X; 1325. (New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 16, 1921; @ Newsbank.com.)]

1921 June 15 / Tennessee / Torrential rain broke drought and saved the crops. / N.O. Times-Picayune, 16th. [X; 1326. (New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 16, 1921; @ Newsbank.com.)]

1921 June 18 / Shocks /  Sydney, N.S.W. / Had been some before. / D. Express—20-1-3. [X; 1327. (London Daily Express, June 20, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 June 18 / NY Times, 9-4 / Many mysterious accidents in Alps believed been suicide. / See Aug 3. [E; 67. (New York Times, June 18, 1921, p. 9 c. 4.) See: 1921 Aug 3, (E: 99).]

1921 June 18 / Thomson's W. News, 10-3. / Rumor that house in At. Agnes Place, Kennington, Lambeth, was haunted. 2 boys arrested for climbing over a gate, to investigate. [E; 68. (Dundee Weekly News, June 18, 1921, p. 10 c. 3.)]

1921 June 19 / W. Dispatch, 3-5. / At Guildford, destruction of chickens. Thought by mongooses escaped from somewhere. [E; 69. (London Weekly Dispatch, June 19, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1921 June 19 / Guildford / Nothing in Surrey Weekly Press. [E; 70.]

1921 June 20 / 3 young women, in diff. parts of New York, found dead. [E; 71. (Ref.???)]

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1921 June 21 / N.Y. Times, 1-8 / 3 American ships had disappeared. Difficult ro think of piracy but seemed no other explanation. Five departments of the Washington Government were investigating. / Several months before, the Carol Deering, of Portland, went ashore near DIamond Shoals, North Carolina. All sails set—5-masted schooner. Everything in good shape—good food—had been abandoned about the time a meal was to be served. A little later a bottle came ashore. In it a message signed by the mate—“An oil-burning tanker had boarded us and placed our crew in irons. Get word to headuqarters of Company at once.” / 22-1-5—“More ships added to the mystery list—almost simultaneous disappearance without a trace regarded as significant.” Four of them had disappeared in Feb. off South Atlantic coast. Three of them sailed from Norfolk about the same time. / The Deering was found Jan 31, 1921. Had been seen sailing past Cape Lookout lighthouse, N. Car., on the 29th. / Idea that agents of the Russian Soviet Govt. had been stealing vessels—but the Deering had not been stolen. / 24-2-7—other explanations that disregard something—Weather Bureau officials that it was Feb. gales, but Deering in Jan, and vessels had disappeared before the Deering—about a dozen vessels now in the list. [E: 72.1 to 72.6. (New York Times, June 21, 1921, p. 1 c. 8.)]

1921 June 21 / Ships / I have not looked up NY Times, July 11-10-3; Aug 2-6-[column not given]. [E; 73. (New York Times, July 11, 1921, p. 10 c. 3.) (New York Times, August 2, 1921, p. 6.)]

1921 June 22 / Hail, weighing 4 ounces, inHerault and Gard, France. / Liverpool Echo, 22nd. [X; 1328. (Liverpool Echo, June 22, 1921.)]

1921 June 22 / Excitement over disap of 3 steamships off Amer. coast. The Deering case was several months before. [E; 74. (Ref.???)]

1921 June 22 / D. Mail, July 9—that one of the sailors of the Deering had written to his mother from Paris. [E; 75. (London Daily Mail, July 9, 1921.)]

1921 June 23 / evening— / Series of shocks in North Devon. / D. Chronicle 25-1-3. [X; 1329. (London Daily Chronicle, June 25, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 June 24 / D. Chron, 5-6 / Woman unable to give account of self, at Deal. / See Sept. 7. [E; 76. (London Daily Chronicle, June 24, 1921, p. 5 c.6.) See: (1921 Sept. 7).]

1921 June 24, etc. / D. News / Details of woman of Deal. [E; 77. (London Daily News, June 24, 1921, etc.)]

1921 June 25 / See the other notes for 1921. / The day before, Steer on his bicycle had been thrown off by two big dogs, scratching his arm and chin. Whether by this or by the flies, inflammation in chin and elbow, of which he died, set in. [E; 78. See: (1921).]

1921 June 26 / At St John's Wood, in the storm. fireball in sky = to 3 diamateres of the moon, width, and 4 or 5 long, Pear-shaped—floating in sky—visible 2 minutes. / D. Chronicle, Aug 1-3-2. [X; 1330. (London Daily Chronicle, August 1, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1921 June 26 / The People, 1-3—at Hyde Park Corner Tube Station, a man, Cecil Lee, run over by a train, and seriously injured. At address, where he was a lodger, 50 Meadow Court Road, Lewisham, found that his landlady, Mrs. A.F. Taylor, had been dead several days. / Ghost did it? Or Lee suicide and murder? [E: 79.1, 79.2. (People, June 26, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.; not at BNA.)]

1921 June 30 / 15 h, 30 m / Metite / Cochin, China / Bull Soc Astro de France 1922-91. [X; 1331. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-91.)]

1921 / ab. last of June / Stone, light and porous as pumice stone, at Shrewsbury. / L.T., June 30 / Fell upon grounds of the Salop County Asylum. [X; 1332. (London Times, June 30, 1921.)]

1921 / summer / The drought in England / M.W.R. 1922-93. [X; 1333. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-93.)]

1921 / summer / Drought / England / See Feb-June, 1895. [X; 1334. (See: (1895 Feb-June).]

1921 / summer / See migration and drought. / summer of 1907. [X; 1335. See: (migration and drought), and, (1907 Summer).]

1921 / summer / Drought—only those who "bastard-trenched" had success with vegetables. / Lloyds S. News, Jan 15-10-3, 1922. [X; 1336. (Lloyds Sunday News, January 15, 1922, p. 10 c. 3.)]

1921 / summer / Drought in France. In the Avesnes district, water selling at 10 d. a bucket. / Ev News, July 9-1-3. [X; 1337. (London Evening News, July 9, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 / summer / BO / Ev. News, July 4—people gathering wild flowers wherre a London reservoir had been. [X; 1338. (London Evening News, July 4, 1921.)]

1921 / summer / BO / Large copper butterfly. / An account of some sales, up to £7.10s, in the Field, July 25, 1903. [X; 1339. "The Large Copper Butterfly." Field, July 25, 1903, p. 191.]

1921 / summer / The drought in Italy. / M.W.R. 1923-86. [X; 1340, (Monthly Weather Review, 1923-86.)]

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1921 / summer / Insects / See Dec 13. [X; 1341. See: (Dec 13).]

1921 / summer / If this the insect and drought summer / See summer of 1893. [X; 1342. See: (1893 summer).]

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1921 June 25 / Flies . Charles Steer, aged 19, of Einu-road, Battersea, on bicycle, near Worthing came upon a swarm of flies so thick that he could scarcely make his way through them. The insects bit or stung him. Blood poisoning set in and he was taken to St. Thomas' Hospital, where he died. / Ev. Standard, July 4-10-4. [X: 1343.1, 1343.2. (London Evening Standard, July 4, 1921, p. 10 c. 4.)]

1921 June 30 / Metite / Tuantuc / Nature 116-191. [X; 1344. (Nature, 116-191.)]

19921 / summer / BO / Scarcity of houseflies noted in Ev. News, July 13. [X; 1345. (London Evening News, July 13, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 24 / Ev. News, 1-4 / Swarms of locusts doing great damage near Paris. First time ever been seen so far north. [X; 1346. (London Evening News, August 24, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Dec 13 / D. Chronicle, 1-5 / House in Cardiff, empty for a while, found in possess of enormous numbers of insects, though to be of Eastern origin. Had eaten bedclothes, etc. Sticking in masses to walls and furniture. Said multiply extremely fast. / 15-3-1—a mite, scarcely size of a pinhead. / 17-5-6—reported from Bideford, North Devon—houses over-run. [X: 1347.1, 1347.2. (London Daily Chronicle, December 13, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.) (London Daily Chronicle, December 15, 1921, p. 3 c. 1.) (London Daily Chronicle, December 17, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 July 8 / D. Chronicle, 3-4 / Large copper butterfly, supposed extinct for 60 years, reported from Surrey. [X; 1348. (London Daily Chronicle, July 8, 1921, p. 3 c. 4.) Lycaena dispar dispar was supposedly last spotted in Cambridgeshire in 1851.]

1921 July 8 / Ap. 4, 1922, a large copper butterfly sold for £17.10s., in London. / D. Chronicle, Ap 5-3-3. [X; 1349. (London Daily Chronicle, April 5, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 23 / A Camberwell Beauty caught by Mary C. Bond, Corfe Castle, Dorset. Only 3 other captures of this butterfly in Dorset recorded from year 1877. / Entomologist, Oct., 1921 / Ent., Nov—records one caught in Sussex. / December —one in Forest of Dean. [X; 1350.1, 1350.2. Bond, Mary C. "Vanessa Antiopa in Dorset." Entomologist, 54 (October 1921): 243-244. Hanbury, Frederick J. "Euvanessa Antipoa in Sussex." Entomologist, 54 (November 1921): 267-268. Heslop, Ian R.P. "Euvanessa Antiopa in Gloucestershire."| Entomologist, 54 ( December 1921): 291.]

1921 July 6 / Ev. Standard, 6-1 / Midges, "billions of them", in suburbs of London. [X; 1351. (London Evening Standard, July 6, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 / summer / Early in October, a Camberwell Beauty caught in Sunderland. / Field, Nov. 5 / Editor writes that this butterfly rare in Gt Britain that been only about 20 recorded captures in England and Scotland in 10 years. [X; 1352. (Field, November 5, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921/ summer / Cor to Field, Nov. 12, notes frequency, as compared with numbers in other years, of the hummingbird hawkmoth. [X; 1353. (Field, November 12, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921 / (summer) / Oct. 15 / Field of / Cor writes from Beverly that he could not remember ever before having seen so many Red Admiral butterflies. "So tame are they that as I sit in the gardne, they sometimes alight on my shoulder and show no fear if even the hand is held out toward them, not moving away until touched. [X: 1354.1, 1354.2. (Field, October 15, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921 Sept. 24 / D. Express of, 5-6 / Cloud sof ladybugs at Epsom and Kingston. Prof Lefroy quoted, that they only a coincidence with the unknown fly. [X; 1355. (London Daily Express, September 24, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept. 26 / Spider webs in London. / D. Mail, 27th. [X, 1356. (London Daily Mail, September 27, 1921.)]

1921 / summer / Sept 5 / D. News, 5-7 / Plague of wasps in South Lincolnshire, causing havoc in orchards. [X; 1357. (London Daily News, September 5, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 July 8 / Ev. Standard, 7-2 / Interviewed with an official of the Ministry of Agriculture—"The insect pest is perfectly appalling. No matter what the crop, fruit, or plant, it is suffering in this respect. Woolly aphis is worse thatn I have ever known it." [X; 1358. (London Evening Standard, July 8, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 June 29 / aphids / Clouds of little black flies / Edmonton / D. Chronicle 30-1-5. [X; 1359. (London Daily Chronicle, June 30, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Sept. 21 / D. Express 22-5-2 / Sheffield invaded by millions of midges. [X; 1360. (London Daily Express, September 22, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Aug 5 / wasps / D. Chron., 3-6 / At Addington Hills, near Croydon, in one day more than 70 persons treated for wasps' stings. [X; 1361. (London Daily Chronicle, August 5, 1921, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept. 25 / Locust caught at Mansfield. / Entomologists' Record 33-199. [X; 1362. (Entomologists Record, 33-199.)]

1921 / summer / "1921 was probably the direst year since 1788 in England and Wales. / Nature 110-55. [X; 1363. (Nature, 110-55.)]

1921 / summer / The drought was mainly in northwestern Europe. / Nature 108-16. [X; 1364. (Nature, 108-16.)]

1921 May 29 / Sunday Express, 7-7 / "Million of gnats infest the river, the country, and even the town. Gardens swarm with them. [X; 1365. (London Sunday Express, May 29, 1921, p. 7 c. 7.)]

1921 / summer / Swarms of ladybirds at Hexham, Northummberland, and green flies as far north as Carlisle. Not again (l. birds) until Aug 10, 1926. / See date Aug 10, 1926. [X; 1366. Se: (1926 Aug 10).]

1921 July 9 / [LT], 7-g / Aphides / Chancery Lane, [X; 1367. (London Times, July 9, 1921, p. 7 c. 8.)]

1921 / summer / Tyrone, Ireland / "Wonderful abundance" of butterflies. / Entomologists Record, Nov. 15, 1921. [X; 1368. (Entomologists Record, November 15, 1921.)]

1921 July 6 / Ev. Standard, 6-1 / Mention that locusts been reported. [X; 1369. (London Evening Standard, July 6, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 / summer / Aug 8-5-1 , D. News. / Plague of wasps infesting golf courses, gardens, and houses, told of. [X; 1370. (London Daily News, August 8, 1921, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1921 July 6 / D. Express, 1-3 / Unusual drought and appearance of locusts in England, [X; 1371. (London Daily Express, July 6, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 17 / D. Chron., 5-4 / Scientists puzzled by plague of mosquitoes, because so many pools been dried up by the drought. [X; 1372. (London Daily Chronicle, August 17, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Aug 1 / D. Chron., 3-6 / At Clingford, 80 wasps' nests destroyed in a fortnight. [X; 1373. (london Daily Chronicle, August 1, 1921, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1921 July 10 / Weekly Dispatch, p. 16 / Photo of a locust caught in London. [X; 1374. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 10, 1921, p. 16. )]

1921 July 5 / D. Chron., 5-5 / Black flies said be aphides. With them, 2 locusts. Caught in a garden in Edmonton. Aphs so dense as to cause tram car drivers to stop. [X; 1375. (London Daily Chronicle, July 5, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 / summer / In Field, Dec 17, p. 802, several cors tell of "strange disappearance of grouse, in Wales and Yorkshire; no disease; no moor-flies—no known cause. [X; 1376. (Field, December 17, 1921, p. 802; not at BNA.)]

1921 July 9 / Field of—a cor. telling of the drought, notes scarcity of insects. Tells of walking through the sun-burned fields and scarcely a butterfly of the commoner kinds of sight. [X; 1377. (Field, July 9, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921 / summer / In the Entomologists' Record, Nov. 15, 1921, a writer comments upon the remarkable paucity of butterflies, at least around Chichester. "Even of the commonest species few were to be seen. [X; 1378. (Entomologists Record, November 15, 1921.)]

1921 July 5 / Ev. Standard, 3-3 / Reports from various districts in England upon the increasing scarcity of swallows. [X; 1379. (London Evening Standard, July 5, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1921 / summer / Aug 13-5-7 / D. News / "Rabits are so numerous in parts of Lincolnshire that they are almost a plague. In a 10-acre field, 145 were killed; and in a 3-acre field, 66 were caught. In an issue week or so before, in telling of the effects of the drought, it was said that rabbits were dying by hundreds. / Teleport? [X: 1380.1, 1380.2. (London Daily News, August 13, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 / summer / (+) / See March 19, 1922, as a hangover from 1921. [X; 1381. See: (1922 March 19).]

1921 July 1 / Max. of Venus / 1st or 2nd? [X; 1382. (Ref.???)]

1921 July 1 / Liverpool Echo of / Been the driest June in 100 years. [X; 1383. (Liverpool Echo, July 1, 1921.)]

1921 July 20 / D. Chronicle of, 6-1 / Thousands of young frogs in Claremont Woods, Asher. [X; 1384. (London Daily Chronicle, July 20, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.)]

1921 July 16 / Liverpool Echo / On account of drought, there was a riot over water-rights at Raunds (Northants). [X; 1385.. (Liverpool Echo, July 16, 1921.)]

1921 July 13 / Ev. Standard, 8-1 / In 3 days from London fire drigade had been called to 65 heath fires. [X; 1386. (London Evening Standard, July 13, 1921, p. 8 c. 1.)]

1921 July / 200 common fires in month of July, at Chislehurst. / Ev Standard, 29th. [X; 1387. (London Evening Standard, July 29, 1921.)]

1921 / after 1869 / BO / That might be unknown principle of exceptional fertility of insects in times of exceptional hardships; there are data of appearances of the rare, the exotic, and the unknown. [X; 1388.]

1921 July 16 / Lloyds Sunday News of 17th / Drought broken in many places by torrential rains—floods at Thetford. / However, temporary relief. [X; 1389. (Lloyds Sunday News, July 17, 1921.)]

1921 July 17 / BO / Lloyds Sunday News, 13-3 / drought / Fish in a pond, Guildford, dying, the pond so shallow and tepid. [X; 1390. (Lloyds Sunday News, July 17, 1921, p. 13 c. 3.)]

1921 July 25 / Disastrous floods in N.S. Wales and Queensland. / Ev. News 25-1-3. [X; 1391. (London Evening News, July 25, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 July 26 / Ev. News, 1-3 / Small rivers dried up in Holland. [X; 1392. (London Evening News, July 26, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 July 29 / Ev. News, 5-6 / Plague of vipers in the Bernese Alps. [X; 1393. (London Evening News, July 29, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Aug 2 / D. News, 5-3 / Drought / Welsh Harp Lake, near London, almost fully disappeared. [X; 1394. (London Daily News, August 2, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 / (summer) / Oct 1 / Field of—Cor writes of a snake he had seen swimming across the Gloucestershire Coln. It was not a grass snake nor an adder, but of a species that he had seen in Bavaria. The color was a pale chocolate brown. But because of white spots upon the neck, the Editor thought it was a grass snake. [X: 1395.1, 1395.2. (Field, October 1, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921 / summer / BO / Aug 13 / Garden Life of / Aphides gradually dwindling, until by end of June had nearly all disappeared. / Aug 27—that one advantage of the season was the absence of mosquitoes, due to drying up of ponds. / Sept 10—not one dragon fly seen by this writer all summer. Writer of dept "The Naturalist in the Garden". / Oct 1—scarcely any ants. Midges almost entirely absent. ordinary flies less numerous, and bluebottles disappeared. [X: 1396.1, 1396.2. (Garden Life, August 13, 1921.) (Garden Life, August 27, 1921.) (Garden Life, September 10, 1921.) (Garden Life, October 1, 1921.)]

1921 / summer / Camberwell Beauties prevalent. / See autumn, 1872. [X; 1397. See: (1872 autumn).]

1921 July 9 / Heat so great, "Mr. Justice Sankey, in the King's Bench Division, today removed his wig, and suggested that Counsel should follow his example. [X; 1398. (Ref.???)]

1921 July 11 / afternoon / A large motor lorry caught fire near Crawley and burned fiercely. "The outbreak was caused by the tarpauling becoming ignited by the sun's rays. / Ev. Standard 11-2-3. [X; 1399. (London Evening Standard, July 11, 1921, p. 2 c. 3.)]

1921 July 11 / Liverpool Echo of / Bishop of Toronto had requested his congregation to pray for rain. A deluge, especially at Guelph, Ontario, came. [X; 1400. (Liverpool Echo, July 11, 1921.)]

[This is the endof Fort's clips after X; 1400.]

1921 / summer / In Belgium, the drought which was from Aug, 1920, to Oct., 1921, was “apparently without precedent in historic times”. / Nature 120-783. [E; 80. (Nature, 120-783.)]

1921 July / Hornsey phe continue till. / See Feb salmon note. [E; 81. See: (1921 Feb).]

1921 July / [Rainstorm of Frogs.] / N.Y. American, July 3, 1921. / [duplicate copy]. [X; 1403. Newspaper clipping. ("Rainstorm of Frogs." New York American, July 3, 1921.)]

1921 July, early / "Complete drought" in northern Bombay and north-west India relieved by rains. / Met. Mag 56-204. [X; 1401. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-204.)]

1921 July 1 / Shrewsbury Chronicle of / Date not given. Dr. Hallsworth of the Bicton Asylum heard a whirring sound and saw obj "like a large. kidney potato" on the ground. Picked up and found it hot. Was of a light, porous material. Was placed in the Shrewsbury Museum. / Said that a similar object had fallen at Bridgenorth ab 17 years before. [X: 1402.1, 1402.2. (Shrewsbury Chronicle, July 1, 1921.)]

1921 July 2 / Occultation of Venus by the moon. [X; 1404. (Ref.???)]

1921 July 2 / Constantinople / Venus occulted by crescent moon—at noon, seen equidistant from horns of crescent. / D. Mail, 5th. [X; 1405. (London Daily Mail, July 5, 1921.)]

[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. E: 82-84.]

1921 July 9 / Fires (on Saturdays) / Cemetary fires. Singular outbreaks at East Ham and Bromley. / Lloyd's Sunday News / The dry grass took fire. Origin unknown—Thought by lighted matches. [E; 82. (Lloyd's Sunday News, July 9, 1921.)]

1921 July 16 / Grass fires in various parts of Colchester. 2 often simultaneously. / Lloyd's Sunday News 17-1-5. [E; 83. (Lloyd's Sunday News, July 17, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 July 23 / Great moor fires in Scotland. “Families fly from wall of flame.” About the same time, in London, a boy of 17 was setting fire to furze on Eltham Common. His explanation that he had nothing else to do. / Lloyd's Sunday News 24-1-3. [E; 84. (Lloyd's Sunday News, July 24, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 July 10 / Period of Ship Mysteries / “The People” of, 10-5 / At Baltimore, the Muhalbro, 4293 tons, bound for Boston from Cuba, had reported a mysterious ship 200 miles off coast, the night before. The strange vessel appeared at midnight, July 5-6, and approached at high speed, carrying no lights except one on foremast, sailed around and made off. / Thought a pirate and related to the 20 missing ships. / People 17-10-3 / Capt of another ship, the Croxteth Hall, reported been pursued by a “pirate”. A vessel 780 miles s.e. of Halifax overtook the vessel, ran parallel for a while and then turned and disappeared. Supposed was a rum runner.” / Seems far out at sea. [E: 85.1, 85.2, 85.3. (People, July 10, 1921, p. 10 c. 5.) (People, July 17, 1921, p. 10 c. 3.; not at BNA.)]

1921 July 11 / Many heath fires reported. An Evening Standard correspondent (11-2-1) made a motor tour of Surrey and saw between 20 and 30 large fires. [X; 1406. (London Evening Standard, July 11, 1921, p. 2 c. 1.)]

1921 July 11 / 16 h, 35 m / Kerinou (Finistère) / Trombe violent. / Sky—"superbe, complètemart de couvert" Sudden, violent. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-361. [X; 1407.1. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-361.)]

1921 July 12 / Cardiff W. Mail—strange insects reported from Tongwynlais, Wales. Magnificent fireflies, some of them 4 or 5 inches long. [X; 1407.2. “Wales Day By Day.” Cardiff Western Mail, July 12, 1921, p. 4 c. 7.]

1921 July 12 / Sun—spon / Ev. Standard, 2-1 / Sun's rays "focussed through a window pane" set fire to the house upon New Hall Farm, near Maldon, Essex. Spread to other buildings, burning cattle and pigs. / July 12 / Ev. Standard, 2-2 / Heat in Paris. Summonses served upon 20 persons of both sexes, in Paris, for being too lightly clad. [X: 1407.3, 1407.4. (London Evening Standard, July 12, 1921, p. 2 c. 1.) (London Evening Standard, July 12, 1921, p. 2 c. 2.)]

1921 July 13 / Liverpool Echo of / Drought and burning moors in Jutland. [X; 1407.5. (Liverpool Echo, July 13, 1921.)]

1921 July 13 / At Stockbridge, Mass (Berkshires), from a cloudless sky, bolt of fire with a "terrifying noise". A barn was seen in flames—hole in ground—thought meteorite had fallen. / NYT, July 15-1-5-2. [X; 1408. (New York Times, July 15, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 July 14 / Fumes / Ev. News, 5-5. / Residents of a house in Putney thought that their neighbor, Frank Gordon Hatton, was “administering poisonous fumes down the chimney” and so charged him in the London South Western Court. Saying that the complainant had failed to prove the case, the magistrate dismissed the charge. [E: 86.1, 86.2. (London Evening News, July 14, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 July 15 / q / Virginia, W. Va., Tennessee / Bull Seis Soc Amer 11/197. [X; 1409. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 July 15 / BO / Manchest Ev. News of—home of Mr. Joseph Peacock, a retired miner, in Crabtree-lane, Atherton, a suburb of Manchester. Mysterious tappings on a bedpost. Then stones descended “apparently from nowhere upon one of the beds. Children, terrified, refused to sleep there, and their bed removed downstairs. Here a pillow was whisked away. Crowds outside and neighborhood excited. No more findable in News. / Cor. this. [E: 87.1, 87.2. (Manchester vening News, July 15, 1921.)]

1921 July 15 / D. Express, 5-6—In home of Mr. John Peacock, wife and 9 children, Crabtree-lane, Atherton, near Manchester—bricks and stones violently thrown across rooms. [E; 88. (London Daily Express, July 15, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 July 15 / Atherton polt. / Liverpool Echo, 16th—an inspector and sergeant of police visited the place—an apron appeared apparently from nowhere and dropped at the sergeant's feet. [E; 89. (Liverpool Echo, July 16, 1921.)]

1921 / July 15 / BO / Stones / Nothing in Manchester Guardian. [E; 90.]

1921 July 17 / K. bog / W. Dispatch, 1-1 / Man at Elmer's End, Kent, stung on mouth by wasp. Soon died. [E; 91. (London Weekly Dispatch, July 17, 1921, p. 1 c. 1.)]

1921 July 18 / Liverpool Echo—a man living at Elmer's End said a wasp had stung his mouth—face swelled and in walking home, he died. [X; 1410. (Liverpool Echo, July 18, 1921.)]

1921 July 18 / Heath fires bursting out. Men accused as in psychic fires. / Ev. Standard, 18th, 2 men arrested for causing a heath fire, but acquitted. / Standard, 19th, 2 men at Brentford accused of havig set a hedge on fire, but their explanation, that theys sitting near it had had nothing to do with it, accepted. / See the other 1921 notes. [E: 92.1, 92.2. (London Evening Standard, July 18, 1921.) (London Standard, July 19, 1921.) See: (1921).]

1921 July 18 / Ev. Standard, 7-2 / Woman / amnesia / Leicester. [E; 93. (London Evening Standard, July 18, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 July 19 / Drought in France broken by violent rains. / D. Chronicle 20-6-2. [X; 1411. (London Daily Chronicle, July 20, 1921, p. 6 c. 2.)]

1921 July 21 / Rain of sand in villages of Cretets and Sauge, Switzerland. Said been caught up in a cyclone. / D. Express 23-1-4. [X; 1412. (London Daily Express, July 23, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 July 23 / At Gravesend, the left hand of a woman found in sea. At Porthcawl, during a half-gale in Bristol Channel, a headless and legless body cast ashore. / Sunday Express 24-1-4. [E; 94. (London Sunday Express, July 24, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 July 25 / "A loud report, followed by a sharp tremor and a rumbling sound, at Comrie, Perthshire. / L.T., July 27, 1921. [X; 1413. (London Times, July 27, 1921.)]

1921 July 25 / 4 p.m. / Comrie / loud report and shake / Ev. Standard, 26th. [X; 1414. (London Evening Standard, July 26, 1921.)]

1921 July 26 / St John's Wood, London—during th. storm. Large luminous mass in sky, stationary several minutes. / D. Mail, July 30-3-5 / See Roy Met Jour. [X; 1415. (London Daily Mail, July 30, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.) (Royal Meteorological Journal, ca. 1921???)]

1921 July 26 / morning / D. Chron 27-1-3 / Heard many miles—at the Navy shell-fitting establishment at Priddy's Hard, Gosport. [X; 1416. (London Daily Chronicle, July 27, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 July 26 / D. Chron., 3-3 / 2 boys, one 10 months and other 3 years, found on Southsea beach. [E; 95. (London Daily Chronicle, July 26, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.)]

1921 July 30, ab / Mystery lights in belfry church, Jersey City. [E; 96. (Ref.???)]

1921 July 31 / Enquiry published in Hartford Courant, June 24, 1924. [X; 1417. (Hartford Courant, June 24, 1924; @ newspapers.com.)]

1921 [July 31] / [Shower of Little Frogs in a Duck Farm. / The Evening World]. [X; 1418. Newspaper clipping. "Shower of Little Frogs Falls On a Duck Farm." New York Evening World, July 31, 1921, p. 2 c. 1. "Sterling, Conn., Aug. 1.—Anton Wagner, owner of the duck farm here, declares that during yesterday's thunder shower, when lightning was ripping up things further north and hailstones were cutting up tobacco west of here, a shower ot little frogs about an inch long fell on his farm, and the greedy ducks gorged themselves with live frog meat." "Wagner says he swept up the little fellows and placed them in barrels in shallow water, furnishing live meat feed for his ducks for several days."]

1921 Aug 1, ab / Disap in Westminster / wife and 2 children / Lloyd's Sunday News 14-1-4. [E; 97. (Lloyd's Sunday News, August 14, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Aug 1 / (Ref) / Violent q. / Leghorn, Italy / Bull Seismological Soc. Amer 11-197. [X; 1419. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Aug 1 / Daylight / met / evening / Haiti / Pop Astro 29-521. [X; 1420. (Popular Astronomy, 29-521.)]

1921 Aug 1 / [LT], 5-c / Ball lightning in London. [X; 1421. (London Times, August 1, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 2 / Stabbing / Ev. Standard, 3rd. / At Kingsbury, Miss Hare, walking in a field, passed a man she had never seen before. He stabbed her in the side and ran away. [E; 98. (London Evening Standard, August 3, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 3 / Ball of fire or th. bolt at Ealing. / D. Chron, 4-1-4. [X; 1422. (London Daily Chronicle, August 4, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Aug 3 / D. Chron., 1-4 / Mrs. Harrott, of Long Buckley, Northants, stung in throat by a wasp—died. [X; 1423. (London Daily Chronicle, August 3, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Aug 3 / (See Aug 20.) / (mts) / D. News, 3-7 / In past few weeks, five young men, most of them Viennese, had mysteriously disappeared from various summer resorts in the Sazkammergut district of the Alps. Might been lost in accidents, but no bodies found. / See June 18. [E: 99.1, 99.2. (London Daily News, August 3, 1921, p. 3 c. 7.) See: (1921 Aug 20), and, (1921 June 18).]

[The following three notes were folded together by Fort. E: 100-102.]

1921 Aug. 3 / Mrs. Goddard, of Eastwood street, Streatham, seated at tea with husband, suddenly exclaimed that something was wrong and so disturbed not finish the meal. 10 minutes later, news that their son, Gilbert, aged 19, been drowned at Surbiton. / D. Chronicle 4-5-2 / In fuller account, said at time of his drowning—at dinner at 2 o'clock—5-3-5. [E: 100.1, 100.2. (London Daily Chronicle, August 4, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.) (London Daily Chronicle, August 5, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1921 Aug 3 / See Aug 20. [E; 101. See: (1921 Aug 20).]

1921 Aug 4 / D. News, 1-3. / Mrs. Wm. Godard. 65 Eastwood street, Streatham, had, ac to testimony at inquest, telepathic warning, while at tea, of something wrong—10 minutes later, learned of drowning of her son. [E; 102. (London Daily News, August 4, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 4 / Light fall of snow in Melbourne—very unusual. / Ev. News 4-5-2 / Heavy snow in other parts of Victoria. [X; 1424. (London Evening News, August 4, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Aug. 4 / D. Express of, 5-2 / During time of drought, in a few days the Air Ministry had record 63 letters from various parts of England upon falls of fireballs. Also masses of fire travelling earthward. Whether in th storms which had been relievinf the drought or not, not said. [X: 1425.1, 1425.2. (London Daily Express, August 4, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Aug 5-7 / Long continuous rains and flood in Wales, though drought in England, / D.C. 8-1-3. [X; 1426. (London Daily Chronicle, August 8, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 (Aug 5) / E Mec 114/211 / Col Markwick lists also at Detroit, U.S.A.; Ferndown, Dorset; Planen, Germany. [X; 1427. (English Mechanic, 114-211.)]

1921 Aug 5 / Like the Aug. 8—seen by Prof. M. Wolf, in Germany. At 11 h, 15 m—a long, very bright cloud west of the Pleiades, brightest near delta Arietis. / Nature—108-69. [X; 1428. (Nature, 108-69.)]

1921 Aug 5 / See Sept 4. [X; 1429. See: (Sept 4).]

1921 Aug 5 / Beam / 11:15 to 11:36 p.m. / Germany / "A long, very bright cloud west of the Pleiades. By Prof Wolf. / Nature 108-69. [X; 1430. (Nature, 108-69.)]

1921 Aug 5 / Beams as noted at the Konigstuhl and Sonneberg Observatories. / Nature 108-69—from Astr. Nach. / From 11 hr, 15 m, to 11:36, G.M.T. Very bright cloud west of the Pleiades. Brightest near delta Airetis. [X; 1431. (Nature, 108-69.)]

[1921 Aug 5] / See E. Mec. / Beam / March 13, 1895 / Observatory 19/231 / Nature, March 28 / Knowledge 19/113 / (Times). [X; 1432. (English mechanic, ca. 1895.) (Observatory, 19-231.) (Nature, March 28, 1895.) (Knowledge, 19-113.) (London Times, ca. 1895.)]

[1921 Aug 5 / Thames / A beam in the sky that does not associate with a comet, but not its tail. / Beginning with comet of March 184? / See May 19, 1910. [X; 1433. See: (March 184?), and, (1910 May 19).]

[1921 Aug 5] / beam / to Jan, 1887, when tail and no comet. [X; 1434. See: (1887 January).]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam and comet / July, 1893. [X; 1435. See: (1893 July).]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam and Comet / Nov 7 and 25, 1853. [X; 1436. See: (1853 Nov 7 & 25).]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam / May make it hit at astronomers. Quote some great comet. 1843 (?) [X; 1437. See: (1843).]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam / Nature, etc? / Beams of Oct. 18, 1896, from a point. [X; 1438. See: (1896 Oct 18).]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam / Nature 28-54. [X; 1439. (Nature, 28-54.)]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam / Not from comet but from sun. / See Ap 9, '52. / Comets assoc with. / Sun more luminous and shows bodies near, for instance. [X; 1440. See: (1852 Ap 9).]

1921 Aug / Beam then a comet / Nov 25, 1853 / said 25. [X; 1441. See: (1853 Nov 25).]

1921 Aug / Obj near sun / See June 18, 1882. [X; 1442. See: (1882 June 18).]

1921 Aug / Comet-like / See June, 1882. [X; 1443. See: (1882 June).]

1921 [Aug] / obj Aug 1921 / Seen near sun, evening of 9th in Japan. / Pubs Astro Soc Pacific 34-69. [X; 1444. (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 34-69.)]

[1921 Aug 5] / Beam / Nature—98, etc. / Oct. 16, 1916. [X; 1445. (Nature, v. 98???) See: (1916 Oct 16).]

1921 Aug 6 / N.Y.T., Oct 30-II-8-3 / Comet by Rickenbacker. [X; 1446. (New York Times, October 30, 1921, s. II p. 8 c. 3.)]

[1921 Aug 6] / [Rickenbacker Saw It First.] / N.Y. Times, ab. Aug 11. [X; 1447. Newspaper clipping. (New York Times, August 11, 1921, p. 13.)]

1921 Aug 7 / Campbell was beaten by one day. / See Eng Mechanic 114-211 for a list of 4 amateurs ahead of him. [X; 1448. (English Mechanic, 114-211.)]

1921 Aug 7 / Obj position / R.A.—9 h, 22 m / N. dec. -16° / Nature, Aug., 18. [X; 1449. (Nature, August 18, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 7 / Probably a nova. [X; 1450. (Ref.???)]

1921 Aug 7 / E Mec 114/49 / S. Fellows, of Wolverhampton, writes, saw 8:30 p.m., saw above setting sun, obj like planet Jupiter—ab. 3 min.—then clouds. [X; 1451. (English Mechanic, 114-49.)]

1921 Aug 7 / Seen on 6th and 7th—brilliant thing seen, neither going to nor returning from the sun, as a comet should be. [X; 1452. (Ref.???)]

1921 Aug 7 / (+) / Severe shock at New Canton, Va. Prof Stephen Taber's conventional explanation that the shock had probably originated in the state belt of Buckingham County, and that the intensity was probably about V on the R-f. scale. But then it is said that ac to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, according to the authorities of the McCormick Observatory, it was concussion from an explosion in the sky ("meteoric"). If so—3 weeks before there had been a similar concussion around Mendota, Va. / Bull Seis Soc Amer. 11-197. [X: 1453.1, 1453.2, 1453.3. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, ca. 1921.) (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Aug. 7 / BO / Lloyds S. News / Theodore Clarke, of arwen-road, Ealing, London, found unconscious lying on a road near Thornton, Lancashire. Could not tell how he got there. [E; 103. (Lloyd's Sunday News, August 7, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 8-9 / [Illustration] / All stars in Arcturus. [X; 1454. (Ref.???)]

1921 Aug 8-9 / (+) / These four beams from Arcturus seen by 6 astronomers of the Observatory of Heidelberg—also by one at La Ferreère (Jura Bernois) at 3 a.m. The sketch is his. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1921-434 / Here the question is asked—whether a comet or a nova. [X: 1455.1, 1455.2. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-434.)]

1921 Aug 9 / Beam from Arcturus to Vega / Sept. 16, 1838. [X; 1456. See: (1838 Sept. 16).]

1921 Aug 11 / evening / Great meteor / Glamorgan. / Cardiff Western Mail, Sept. 14. [X; 1457. “Wales Day By Day.” Cardiff Western Mail, September 14, 1921, p. 4 c. 7.]

1921 Aug 11 / Saint Clement-des-Levées (Maine-et-Loire) / 7 h, a strong concussion and detonation. / At 7 h, 45 m, a fainter concusssion. / Bull Soc A de F 1921-372. [X; 1458. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-372.)]

1921 Aug. / Perseids of Bristol listed in Nature 118-280 as unusually abundant. [X; 1459. (Nature, 118-280.)]

1921 Aug 11-12 / Perseids very active in France. At Nice, 50 counted in 10 minutes. / Bull Soc Astro de F. 1921-402. [X; 1460. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1921-402.)]

1921 Aug / Perseids / 250 per hour / Observatory 46-169. [X; 1461. )Observatory, 46-169.)]

1921 Aug 11 / D. News, 3-1 / Somnabulism—a girl—at Redhill found returning—soaking wet as if beenin pond. 3 cuts and daubed with tar. [E; 104. (London Daily News, August 11, 1921, p. 3 c. 1.)]

1921 Aug 12 / Beam / Dispatch from the Koenigstahl Observatory, that night of Aug 8, earth had passed through tail of a comet. / NY Times, Aug 13-3-2. [X; 1462. (New York Times, August 13, 1921, p. 3 c. 2.)]

1921 Aug 12 / A.M. / One observer counted 250 meteors per hour. / Not said where. / Denning / E. Mec 116-298. [X; 1463. (English Mechanic, 116-298.)]

1921 Aug / Beam and Vesuvius / July 31, 1883 / from a star / Aug 20, 1886. [X; 1464. See: (1883 July 31), and, (1886 Aug 20).]

1921 Aug 12 / (Insects) / During a hot south "sirocco" wind, at Bienne, Switzerland, clouds of mosquitoes fell into the streets. "They died rapidly." / Sunday Express, 14-7-2. [X; 1465. (London Sunday Express, August 14, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 Aug 13 / At Skegness, waterspout see, during a torrential rain. / Ev News 15-5-3. [X; 1466. (London Evening News, August 15, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 14 / 21 h, 30 m / Great bolide / Italy / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-171. [X; 1467. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-171.)]

1921 Aug 14 / on Red Sea / Violent q at Massowah. / Cardiff Western Mail, 25th / See Sept. [X; 1468. “Earthquake Shock.” Cardiff Western Mail, August 25, 1921, p. 6 c. 4. Massowah is now identified as Massawa, Eritrea. See: 1921 Sept 21, (X; 1508).]

1921 Aug. 14 / Sun. Exp., 5-3 / Myst disap of Swansea girl, Mamie Stuart, still unsolved. [E; 105. (London Sunday Express, August 14, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.) See: 192-, [1920s], (D; 936).]

1921 Aug 14 / W. Dispatch / Ghosts at sea at Leigh-on-Sea. Said two youths in a boat caught. [E; 106. (London Weekly Dispatch, August 14, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 16 / [LT], 6-e / Fine Meteor Shower. [X; 1469. (London Times, August 16, 1921, p. 6 c. 5.)]

1921 Aug 16 / Liverpool Echo of / 40 persons drowned by cloudburst in town of Klausen, in Tyrolean valley of Eisbach. [X; 1470. (Liverpool Echo, August 14, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 17 / BO / date of frgs / Whetstone, northern part of Greater London, near Barnet / D. Express 18-1-6 / D. News—Aug 18th—Impossible to walk on pavements without crushing some. Said that there was a brook, skirting the district, but that though frgs on ground here, large numbers appeared in streets remote from this brook. Also told of in Finchley Press of 19th. Not said seen to fall—but appeared in the gutters soon after rain started to fall. Daily Express, 19th—scientists at the Museum of Nat History interviewed—thought had been carried in a whirlwind. [X: 1471.1 to 1471.4. (London Daily Express, August 18, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.) (London Daily News, August 18, 1921.) (London Daily Express, August 19, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 17 / Date of letter to Finchley Press is—July 11, 1926. [X; 1472. (Fort's letter???)]

1921 Aug 17 / Paris, night, luminous streak in sky from near earth toward moon. Said that explosive sounds were heard. Meteor? / D. News 20-5-1. [X; 1473. (London Daily News, August 20, 1921, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1921 Aug 18 / Vesuvius had been active several days. / D. Mail of [Aug 18]. [X; 1474. (London Daily Mail, August 18, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 19 / BO / D. Express of, 1-4 / Thousands of little frogs after a rainstorm in streets of Whetstone—so many, impossible to walk without stepping on some. [X; 1475. (London Daily Express, August 19, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Aug 20 / mt. disaps / Thomsons W. News, 16-5 / Salzkammergut, the Austrian Alps / Since May, 5 young men, tourists, at different times, had vanished. No bodies found, no explanation. / See Aug 3. [E; 107. (Dundee Weekly News, August 20, 1921, p. 16 c. 5.) See: (1921 Aug 3).]

1921 Aug 21 / The People, 9-5 / An Oxford chemist, Albert Luff Lewin, on holiday, at Bournemouth wa stung on chin by a mosquito—septic poisoning—he died. [E; 108. (People, August 21, 1921, p. 9 c. 5; not at BNA.)]

1921 Aug. 21 / Helvellyn lights under Lum objs. [E; 109. See: (Lum Objs).]

1921 Aug 22 / 19 h, 40 m / near Naples / Sunset at 18 h, 51 m / Meteor larger than Venus / B. Soc A de F 37-87. [X; 1476. (bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 37-87.)]

1921 Aug 23 / 10:30 p,m, / Large meteor, South Wales—had been 2 others in preceding nights. / Cardiff Western Mail, Sept 3. [X; 1477. Mee, Arthur. “Astronomical Notes.” Cardiff Western Mail, September 3, 1921, p. 6 c. 4.]

1921 Aug 23 / 21 h., 17 m / moderate q. recorded at Eskdalemuir Observatory. Calculated 1,000 miles away. / Me.t Mag, 56/232. [X; 1478. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-232.)]

1921 Aug 25 / Cardiff Western Mail—Cows in Rogerstone, Monmouthshire, dying of a strange disease. Seen blood poisoning, but veterinarians could give no opinion. [E; 110. “A Cattle Mystery.” Cardiff Western Mail, August 25, 1921, p. 6 c. 1.]

1921 Aug 26 / D. Express of, 1-3 / In recent great q in China, 200,000 victims. Same province as the q of preceding December. province of Kan Su, N.W. China. [X; 1479. (London Daily Express, August 26, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 26 / BO / Liverpool Echo of / "The people of Llandrindod Wells, residents and visitors, have been seeing a snake with aerial proclivities. Hundreds of people testify that they saw a gigantic snake rushing down on them from the sky. The townsfolk were out on the common. There had been a sharp thundershower, and the clouds were lifting, when someone perceived what appeared to be a mammoth snake overhead, coming downward. Soon there were groups all around staring in terror. Several spectators called out that they could see eyes in its head and smoke belching from its open mouth. A man of world-wide travel experience believed it to be a waterspout. After descending some way towards the earth, it turned with a 'kink' in its body such as a snake shows. Then, moving more rapidly than the upper clouds, it rose, dived behind a dark cloud, and disappeared. Scoffers suggest that the vision was merely a peculiar formation of cloud." [X; 1480.1 to 1480.5. "Great Snakes." Liverpool Echo, August 26, 1921, p. 4 c. 6. Fort's paraphrased version has been replaced with the original article.]

1921 Aug. 26 / Unseen hands / Sune June, 1921. [E; 111. See: 1921 June, (E: 62 & 63), and, 1921 (E; 64).]

1921 Aug 27 / NY Times, 9-3 / Ghost / Staten Island. [E; 112. (New York Times, August 27, 1921, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1921 Aug 28 / N.Y.T., 2-7 / q / NY / Up-State. [X; 1481. (New York Times, August 28, 1921, p. 2 c. 7.)]

1921 Aug 28 / Liverpool Echo, 29th / Death from wasp sting, of M. Henrik G. Castenskiold, the Danish Minister, in London. [E; 113. (Liverpool Echo, August 29, 1921.)]

1921 Aug 28 / The People 28-8-6 / Hundreds of persons at Tunbridge Wells, spellbound, looking at what seemed to them an enormous serpent in the sky, after a thunderstorm. It was, of course, a waterspout. But the workding is about the same as that of the other story. “One reliable witness, a man of world-wide travel experience, believed it to be a waterspout.” / See 1922? [E: 114.1, 114.2. (People, August 28, 1921, p. 8 c. 6; not at BNA, nor found in other newspapers.)]

1921 / ab. Sept / Polt in Kennebunk. Said been investigated by Booth Tarkington. / Light, Oct. 15. [E; 115. “From the Lighthouse Window.” Light, 41 (no. 2,127;  October 15, 1921): 669. (Boston Post, Mass., ca. September, 1921.)]

1921 / ab. Sep. 1 / People 4-8-6 / New York / Gerardo Catonigri gave self up to police, saying had killed a man in Nov., 1919, and been haunted by his ghost. [E; 116. (People, September 4, 1921, p. 8 c. 6.) “Confessing Murder, Says Ghost Called Him Back.” New York Herald, August 14, 1921, p. 7 c. 6-8. “Prisoner Denies Ghost Forced Him To Admit Murder.” New York Tribune, August 14, 1921, p. 6 c. 7-8. Catoniigri soon after recanted his confession.]

1921 Sept 1-2 / night / and 8th / Aurora / New Hampshire / Science, NS, 54-329. [X; 1482. Brooks, Charles F. "Grand Aurora of September 1-2, 1921 (at Silver Lake, N.H., Lat. 43.9° N.)." Science, n.s., 54 (October 7, 1921): 329.]

1921 Sept 2 / night / Metite / Tammin, W. Australia / Sci Amer—Feb., 1922. [X; 1483. (Scientific American, n.s., February 1922.)]

1921 Sept. 3 / D. News, 3-4 / Loss memory, girl, 28, at Epping. [E; 117. (London Daily News, September 3, 1921, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1921 Sept 4 / Dispatch dated 4th, at Milan—great q in Italian colony of Eritree, on Red Sea. / D. Chron. 5-5-1. [X; 1484. (London Daily Chronicle, September 5, 1921, p. 5 c. 1.)]

1921 Sept 4 / Bright object, low in west, just after sunset, at Ottawa, by Dr. W. Bell Dawson. / Nature 108-193. [X; 1485. (Nature, 108-193.)]

1921 Sept 6 / [source unidentified], 5-5 / Death of a man at Macclesfield. Verdict at inquest—“Death from septicemia, due to a sting by an unknown insect”. [E; 118. (Source unidentified, September 6, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.) “A Fatal Sting.” Nottingham Evening Post, September 6, 1921, p. 3 c. 3.]

1921 Sept 6 / Ev. News, 9-7. / An army of cats that had appeared near Rome. “The phenomenon can not be explained in scientific circles.” [E; 119. (London Evening News,September 6, 1921, p. 9 c. 7.)]

1921 Sept 7 / D. Chron., 1-5 / The American woman found at Deal, in May, who been sent to National Hospital, Queen-square, London, remembered her name as Diana Hamilton Morgan, of somewhere in Virginia. [E; 120. (London Daily Chronicle, September 7, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.) (“Victim of Amnesia Regaining Memory.” New York Times, September, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 8 / Ext. whirl at Aldershot. Column of dust and papers rose with a roar to the sky—came without warning, and in ½ minute subsided. / D. News, 9-1-5. [X; 1486. (London Daily News, September 9. 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Sept 8—etc. / Clbrst at San Antonio, Texas, like at Puebla. [X; 1487. (Ref.???)]

1921 Sept 8 / Ext. whirlwind at Aldershot. People spun around dust lifted. Came suddenly and lasted ½ minute. / D. Express 9-1-6. [X; 1488. (London Daily Express, September 9, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept 8-10 / Violent storms / S. Africa / Met Mag 56/271. [X; 1492. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-271.)]

1921 Sept. 9 / Taylor, Texas / Greatest 24-hour rainfall of record in U.S.A. Forty-minute fall was 8.02 inches. / M.W.R. 1922-369. [X; 1489. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-369.)]

1921 Sept. 9 / Clbrst / great / San Antonio, Texas. [X; 1490. (Ref.???)]

1921 Sept 9 / Times, 9-c / Prof. Lefroy not very [word missing] state of activity explain insects of this season. Some been killed by the drought. Others bred abundantly by the warm weather. [X; 1491. (london Times, September 9, 1921, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1921 Sept 9 / Ev. News, 3-6 / On farms, near Berkhampstead, “A mystery animal”—like a squirrel—killing chickens. [E; 121. (London Evening News, September 9, 1921, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept 11 / The People, 13-6 / Fred Barton (33), at Macclesfield, stung [on] lip by a unkown insect and died from septicemia. [E; 122. (People, September 11, 1921, p. 13 c. 6.) See: 1921 Sept 6, (E; 118).]

1921 Sept 11 / People, 9-6. / While travelling from Brighton to London, an iron stay of the engine became detached, and crashing through a window, killed Mr. L.S. Prince, of Beckham. [E; 123. (People, September 11, 1921, p. 9 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept 11 / Trains / See Jan 27, 1922. [E; 124. See: (1922 Jan 27).]

1921 Sept 11 / [source unidentified], 16-3 / Village of Box, near Bath, body of a strolling musician found, badly battered. “An extraordinary circumstance is that the body was partly nude.” [E; 125. (Unidentified source, September 11, 1921, p. 16 c. 3.)]

[The following six notes were clipped together by Fort. X: 1493-1498.]

1921 Sept. 13 / Plymouth, Wis. / obj. / [Letter to Fort, from Joe Babcock, July 28, 1924.] [X; 1493. (Letter; Babcock, Joe, to Fort; July 28, 1924).]

[1921 Sept. 13] / 1922 Jan. 24 (?) / (geode) / "According to the Farmer's Tribune, of Minneapolis, Jan 24, 1922, Mr. Joseph Babcockm a farmer of Waukesha, Wisconsin, found a hole in the ground with dirt thrown up around it that had not been touched by rain. He dug down seven feet and found a 15-pound fragment of a meteor. The fragment was a half sphere of stone of mixed formation which had apparently been hollow. "Leading toward the center, in circles, were successive formations of blue, red and green agate-like stone, then small white crystals, and finally large pyramid crystals grouped about what had been a hollow center." The farmer thought the white crystals were diamonds. [The description sounds like that of a geode of earthy formation rather than that of a meteoric stone. [Fort's brackets] / (Pop Astro 30/194). [X: 1494.1 to 1494.4. (Popular Astronomy, 30-194.) (Farmer's Tribune, Minneapolis, January 24, 1922.)]

[1921 Sept. 13] / 1922 Jan / Another Geode / Am. J. Sci 2/28/276. [X; 1495. (American Journal of Science, s. 2 v. 28 p. 276.)]

[1921 Sept. 13] / 1922 Jan. 24 / See Carus Wilson obj. [X; 1496. See: (Carus Wilson).]

[1921 Sept. 13]/ 1922 Jan. 24 / Geode / Dec. 8, 1888. [X; 1497. See: (1888 Dec 8).]

[1921 Sept. 13] / 1922 Jan 24 / Geode / See Dec 8, 1888. [X; 1498. See: (1888 Dec 8).]

1921 Sept 14 / Shock / Dixie, Wash / Ref, Aug. 1. [X; 1499. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Sept 14 / Cardiff Western Mail of—"A strange and ferocious bird was recently reported to have been discovered on the Gower coast, the most striking feature of which was its powerful, flat, elongated, crimson-colored beak, 1½ in. both in length and breadth, and shaped like the head of a fish." Said description of a puffin similar, but the colors were different. [X: 1500.1, 1500.2.“Wales Day By Day.” Cardiff Western Mail, September 14, 1921, p. 4 c. 7.]

1921 Sept 14 / q / Dixie, Washington / Sharp blow and then 3 others sound. / Bull Seis Soc Amer 11-195. [X; 1501.  (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-195.)]

1921 Sept 14 / Clbrst / date of dispatch from Milan—cl. burst devastated northwestern part of Sardinia. / D. Chron. 16-5-2. [X; 1502. (London Daily Chronicle, September 16, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Sept 15 / Period of coal explosions began. / Dec 5, 1922. [E; 126. See: (1922 Dec 5).]

1921 Sept 15 / Ev News, 1-4 / Edith Lipscombe, at Guildford, killed by coal exploding in a stove. [E; 127. (London Evening News, September 15, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.)]

1921 Sept 15 / Coal / D. News 16-5-3 / Edith Lipscombe, aged 21, in kitchen of cottage, near Guildford, killed by explosion of coal in the grate. Walls of the room damaged. [E; 128. September 16, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Sept 15 / Exploding coal / See back to Hornsey Coal and Polt—in Feb., 1921. [E; 129. See: (1921 Feb).]

1921 Sept 17-19 / Very heavy rain, Corrèze, France. Severe floods; the Murat viaduct swept away. / Met Mag, 56-271. [X; 1503. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-271.)]

1921 Sept 20 and 21 / Disastrous th. storm and flood, Lisbon. People swept into sewers. / Cardiff Western Mail, 23rd. [X; 1504. “Lisbon Swept by Flood.” Cardiff Western Mail, September 23, 1921, p. 7.]

1921 Sept 20 night and 21 / Violent th. storms and floods, Lisbon. Water in great waves through streets—people drowned in houses. / D. Express 23-5-6. [X; 1505. (London Daily Express, September 23, 1921, p. 5 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept 20 / Big gun firing at Shoeburyness. / D. Chron. 21-3-6. [X; 1506. (London Daily Chronicle, September 21, 1921, p. 3 c. 6.)]

1921 Sept. 21 / Explosion of the Badische Aniline Works at Oppau, germany. 800 killed—said worst industrial catastrophe recorded. 7:45 a.m. / Cause unknown. / Registered by seismographs, at Stuttgart, 82 miles away. / D. Express 23-1-3. [X; 1507. (London Daily Express, September 23, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Sept 21 / Another violent shock at Massowa, on the Red Sea. / See Aug 14. / Cardiff Western Mail, 23rd. [X; 1508. “Earthquake in North-East Africa.” Cardiff Western Mail, September 23, 1921, p. 7 c. 2. Massowa is now identified as Massawa, Eritrea. See: 1921 Aug 14 , (X; 1468).]

1921 Sept 21 / Explosion in Oppau, Germany, heard in London, 400 miles. / D. Mail, 27th. [X; 1509. (London Daily Mail, September 27, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 22 / 11:20 a.m. / Shock / portland, Oregon / Ref, Aug 1. [X; 1510. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Sept. 22 / Exceptionally violent th. storm, Rome. / Met Mag 56-271. [X; 1511. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-271.)]

1921 Sept 22 / 11:20 a.m. / Slight q / Portland, Oregon / Bull-Amer 11-198. [X; 1512. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-198.)]

1921 Sept 23 / 18 h., 47 m. / at Djibouti / met size of moon from zenith westward. / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-107. [X; 1513. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-107.)]

1921 Sept 24 / D. Express of / Invasion of Surrey and Berkshire by swarms of unknown small poisonous flies. Prof. Lefroy quoted as unable to identify them. "The flies bite with exceptional severity, causing swollen limbs from bites on hands and ankles. 10 cases in one London hospital. [X: 1514.1, 1514.2. (London Daily Express, September 24, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 24 / Spanish village of Quintanar wiped out by floods. / Cardiff W. Mail, 26th. [X; 1515. (Cardiff Western Mail , September 26, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 24 / Sicily / Cyclone / Cardiff W. Mail, 26th. [X; 1516. (Cardiff Western Mail, September 26, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 24 / D. News, 5-7 / Village of Shillington, S. Bedfordshire, poisoning of dogs and myst fires. [E; 130. (London Daily News, September 24, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 Sept. 26 / Ev. News, 5-2 / Loss memory girl at Gravesend. [E; 131. (London Evening News, September 26, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. E: 132 & 133.]

1921 Sept 26 / D. News, 5-7. / Following the mysterious fires at Silvermine Warren, a large residence near Hersham, Surrey, 3 domestic servants, Helen Morfey, Edith Sharpe, Doris Rose, were arrested, charged with maliciously setting the house afire, and stealing jewellery valued at £400. Empty jewel cases were found by the firemen in the rooms where fires occurred. Jewels and silverware found hidden in house. [E: 132.1, 132.2. (London Daily News, September 26, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 Sept / Jewels and fire / Surrey / Women on trial. Charge against Helen Morfey withdrawn. Others pleaded not guilty. “Charred jewel case” found. / D. News, Sept 29-[page and column not given]. [E; 133. (London Daily News, September 29, 1921.)]

1921 Sept 27 / A “Magnet” / For list, see Aug., 1883. [ A.C. Holms' “Facts of Psychic Science, p. 279. / Sept 27, Miss Mary Richardson gave performances at the Olympia Music Hall, Liverpool. Small and frail. Easily lifted one moment; next, 6 men could not lift her. She, like Mrs Abbott (1891/), balancing a billiard cue in her hands and 6 men could not push it endwise. When the cue was placed vertical on the floor and six men pressed it downward, she pressed against the 6 and prevailed. According to special observations, she used no muscular force. By touching a man, she could throw him to the floor. Thirteen men in a queue pressed against her, so forcefully that the queue was forced out of line, but without effect. Holms says that he put his hands between her body and the hands of the first man in the queue, and felt no pressure, convincing himself that pressure could not reach her. [E: 134.1 to 134.4. Holms, Archibald Campbell. The Facts of Psychic Science and Philosophy. Jamaica, N.Y.: Occult Press, 1927, 279-280. “Variety Gossip.” Stage, September 22, 1921, p. 12 c. 4-6 & p. 13 c. 1-2, at p. 12 c. 5. “The committee on the stage are too numerous, and at times block the view of the house while the 'confederates' have been insufficiently rehearsed and are too obviously helpers of the permanent kind.” (“Two Pounds Less Than an Elephant.” Popular Mechanics, March 1928: 402-407.) See: (1883 Aug).]

1921 Sept 28 / Typhoon and destructive wave / Japan / D. Chron 29-1-5. [X; 1517. (London Daily Chronicle, September 29, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Sept 29 and Oct 1 / Elsinore, Utah / q / several pages in Bull. Seis Soc Amer 11-156. [X; 1518.  (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-156.)]

1921 Sept. 29 / (Fires) / D. News, 5-7 / 6 fires in 6 weeks in a London warehouse. One of them while the insurance officials were investigating a previous fire. [E; 135. (London Daily News, September 29, 1921, p. 5 c. 7.)]

1921 / autumn / Argentine ant eating up flowers in Cannes, France. / D. Chronicle, Dec 29-5-4. [X; 1519. (London Daily Chronicle, December 29, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Oct / Mars, Saturn, Venus in Leo-Virgo. [X; 1520. (Ref.???)]

1921 Oct / Revival / East Anglia / Ipswich. [E; 136. (Ref.???)]

1921 Oct 1 / 3 a.m. / 2 shocks / Harrisburg, Ill. / Ref, Aug 1. [X; 1521. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Oct 1 / N.Y.T., 1-7 / 2-1-2 / q. / Utah. [X; 1522. (New York Times, October 1, 1921, p. 1 c. 7.) (New York Times, October 2, 1921, p. 1 c. 2.)]

1921 Oct 1 / 3 a.m. / 2 distinct shocks believed to have been earthquakes. / Harrisburg, Ill / Bull-Amer—11-198. [X; 1523. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-198.)]

1921 Oct 2 / Pollen in Oct. / At Chateaudun (Saint-Denis-les-Ponts), ab 16 hr., in violent rain but of short duration. Mixed with a yellow dust. The substance fell in great quantities, covering the ground in a thick deposit—sent to a chemist, who said pine pollen. / An. Soc. Met de France, 1921-156. [X: 1524.1, 1524.2. (" Annuaire de la Société Météorologique de France, 1921-156.)]

1921 Oct 6 / (Transported) / D. Mail of. / Major Harding Cox, of Newick, Sussex, writes. A pond several acres near his home haad been drained. All the mud scooped out, and it was dry from July to Nov., when re-filled. In the following May, it teemed with tench averaging ½ pound. In one day he caught 37. In the previous pond not one tench had ever been caught and not one when drained. As to in bottom of pond—clay bottom had been excavated 2 feet deeper and became baked hard as bricks. Wondering if fell in a shower from sky. / Seems to me (C.F.) been seen on shores. Hit pond exactly? / (As to re-filling, he says it was allowed to re-fill.) / (D.M., 19th—other cor says may been spawn on plumage of wild duck.) [E: 137.1, 137.2, 137.3. ("Fish from the Clouds." London Daily Mail, October 6, 1921, p. 6 c. 6.)]

1921 Oct 10 / night / Ball of fire fell into Channel near Brighton. / D. Chronicle, 13th. [X; 1525. (London Daily Chronicle, October 13, 1921.)]

1921 Oct. 10 / Brighton / Ball lightning / D. Mail 12-7-3. [X; 1526. (London Daily Mail, October 12, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 Oct 11 / N.Y.T., 21-2 / q. / Maine. [X; 1527. (New York Times, October 11, 1921, p. 21 c. 2.)]

1921 Oct 12 / [source unidentified], 5-5 / Loss of memory man at Reigate. [E; 138. (Unidentified source, October 12, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Oct 12 / D. Mail, 7-2 / Ghst shading woman on doorstep of 27 Lamb's Conduil-street, Holborn. [E; 139. (London Daily Mail, October 12, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 Oct 12 / D. Chron, 3-5 / Youth—loss memory—Merstham. [E; 140. (London Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1921 Oct 15 / 12:27 a.m. / Shocks registered at U.S. Weather Bureau, Chicago, Ill. Center estimated to be ab. 3000 miles, southwest of Chicago, probably in Pacific Ocean. / Ref., Aug. 1. [X; 1528. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Oct. 16 / BO / The People, 14-3. / Girl of 20 found, in the early morning, wandering the streets of Romford, unable to give an account of herself. Afterward identified as Edith Harrington, of South Hornchurch. / See May 15, 1922; Jan 14, 1920; Sept 4, 1923. [E; 141. (People, October 16, 1921, p. 14 c. 3.) See: 1920 Jan 14, (D: 974 & 975); (1922 May 15); and, (1923 Sept 4).

1921 Oct. 17 / Shock / Panama / Ref, Aug 1. [X; 1529. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Oct 17 / Rose City, Mich / aerolite / Amer Museum. [X; 1530. (Ref.???)]

1921 Oc 17 / metite / Rose City, Michigan / Pop Astro 38-359. [X; 1531. (Popular Astronomy, 38-359.)]

1921 Oct. 22 / met—fire / 20 h., 30 m / Det met / Lespinasse Molières (Seine-et-Oise) / According to a newspaper account, a little later a house was destroyed by fire at this place. / Bull Soc A. de F. 1922-107. [X; 1532. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-107.)]

1921 Oct 26 / Increasing activity by Ruapehu Volc in North Island of New Zealand. / D. Chron, 28-9-2. [X; 1533. (London Daily Chronicle, October 28, 1921, p. 9 c. 2.)]

1921 Oct 26 / D. Chronicle / Woman found wandering in Rugby in Jan. No account of self. [E; 142. (London Daily Chronicle, October 26, 1921.)]

1921 Oct. 26 / Shortlands / See Nov. 14, 1919. [E; 143. See: 1919 Nov 14, (D: 914 & 915).]

1921 Oct 28 / Cloudburst on Vesuvius. / D. Mail 29-7-3—flood of mud, carcases, tree trunks. [X; 1534. (London Daily Mail, October 29, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 Oct 28 / See Nov. 8, 1922. [X; 1535. See: (1922 Nov 8).]

1921 Oct 30 / clbrst / D. Chronicle 31-1-6 / At Britaania Beach, 18 miles from Vancouver, B.C., after a month of hard rains, a cloudburst—a places, a wave 60 feet high—houses carried out to sea—a hotel floating down a river, a barber shop and a jewellery shop. [X; 1536. (London Daily Chronicle, October 31, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Oct. 30 / Lloyd's Sunday News / In a field at Mitchum, 3 horses slashed by a sharp instrument. Mr. Henry Banks, the owner, quoted, That to catch and hold the horses and maim must have taken more than one man, £50 reward. [E; 144. (Lloyd's Sunday News, October 30, 1921.)]

1921 Oct. 31 / Disap / Mary Grace Enstone, of Hampton, Worcestershire, last seen on bicycle on road between Hampton and Badsey, ab. 8:30 [.m. 25 years old. At 10:45 p.m., her bicycle was found outside her home. 2 men who had passed that way said not there at 9:30 p.m. / S. Express, Nov. 6-7-5. [E: 145.1, 145.2. (London Sunday Express, November 6, 1921, p. 7 c. 5.)]

1921 Oct 31 / Poison Wind / D. Chronicle, Nov 2-5-2 / At little town of Zetel, near Wilhelmshaven, a “poisonous wind”, for about an hour, and several scores of persons fell unconscious, remaining so for hours. Believed to have come from noxious marshes. In same district been 2 or 3 such occurrences before. [E: 146.1, 146.2. (London Daily Chronicle, November 2, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 Oct. 31 / Poison wind / Germany / See other notes. [E; 147. See: (Refs.???).]

1921 Oct, last of / Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Saturn in one small region. [X; 1537. (Ref.???)]

1921 Nov. 1 / D. Express, 2-1-4 / See Mt. Myst, Sept or Oct., 1925. / At Zetel, in Oldenbeurg, a poisonous air wave passed over the villages and more than 100 persons fainted, They recovered only after long treatment. No explanation had been thought of. [X; 1538. (London Daily Express, November 2, 1921, p. 1 c. 4.) See: (1925 sept or Oct).]

1921 Nov. 1 / Abnormally high tide—great damage—"experts puzzled"—E and S.E. coasts of England. / D. Chron 2-5-4. [X; 1539. (London Daily Chronicle, November 2, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Nov. 1. / 9 p.m. / Severe shock / City of Mexico / Ref., Aug. 1. [X; 1540. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Nov. 1 / high tide / Thames / Met Mag 56-295. [X; 1541. (Meteorological Magazine, 56-295.)]

1921 Nov. 2 / Lima, Peru / 4 sharp q's. / Ref, Aug. 1. [X; 1542. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Nov. 5 / Spout / D. Chronicle 8-7-3 / Waterspout from Bay of Naples burst upon Naples. [X; 1543. (London Daily Chronicle, November 8, 1921, p. 7 c. 3.)]

1921 Nov 5 / [LT], 7-g (2) / 9-5-e / 15-7-g (2) / 23-5-g—lightning / 23-5-g / Dec 31-5-g / Brnt. cases / Sp. Comb? [E; 148. (London Times: 1921 Nov 5 / [LT], 7-g (2) / 9-5-e / 15-7-g (2) / 23-5-g—lightning / 23-5-g / Dec 31-5-g / Brnt. cases / Sp. Comb?)]

1921 Nov. 7 / H.H. / D. Chronicle, 3-5—a house in Rotherhithe haunted—12 years vacant. Ab. Nov. 1, someone moved in—found, back of fireplace, body of an infant. [E; 149. (London Daily Chronicle, November 7, 1921, p. 3 c. 5.)]

1921 Nov. 15 / recorded at West Bromwich, a remarkable shock of unprecedented suddenness. origin computed be in Afghanistan but unknown. / D. Mail 24-7-2. [X; 1544. (London Daily Mail, November 24, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

[The following two notes were folded together by Fort. E: 150 & 151.]

1921 Nov. 18 / (Oct.) / BO / In the Klinksdorf Record, said that for several weeks at Graaff Reinet been mysterious stone-throwing by invisible agencies”. Police and citizens on guard but came just the same. 2 Negroes had been charged with the outrages and tried upon evidence by two little colored boys. But these boys ended up by saying that a detective had promised them 5 shillings for testifying against the prisoners, who were released. [E: 150.1, 150.2. (Klinksdorf Record, November 18, 1921.)]

1921 Nov / BO / Stones / Graass Reinet / Told of in Grocotts Daily Mail, Oct. 21—houses of Gibbon Joseph and H.J. Minnaan (North Street) bombarded. Thought because of hostility of colored inhabitants, but the stones at first by night, then arrived during days. “Great jagged portions of rock and stones.” [E: 151.1, 151.2. (Grocotts Daily Mail, October 21, 1921.)]

1921 Nov. 21 / D. Chronicle, 3-4 / Unknown—loss of memory at Oswestry, Shropshire. Ab. 20 years old. [E; 152. (London Daily Chronicle, November 21, 1921, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1921 Nov. 25 / 1:17 p.m. / Sharp shock all over island of Jamaica. / Ref, Aug 1. [X; 1545. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Nov. 26 / The Field of / Mr. W. Harcourt-Bath, of Plymouth, writes as to statement from Col. Howard Bury, leader of the Mt. Everest Expedition, that he had seen footprints in snow at altitude of ab. 20,000 feet, attributed to “wild snow men”, tells of having found footprints on Nepalese mountains at 11,000 feet. Can't think what food creatures find at 20,000 feet. / There was a discussion in the Times. [E: 153.1, 153.2. (Field, November 26, 1921; not at BNA.)]

1921 Dec. / Hypnosis and murder / Berlin / Grupen case. [E; 154. (Ref.???)]

1921 Dec. / D. News / not. [E; 155.]

1921 Dec / The revival strong in Exeter in Feb, '22. [E; 156. (Ref.???)]

1921 Dec 3-9 / Pacific typhoon / Guam to Yap / MWR 1922-32. [X; 1546. (Monthly Weather Review, 1922-32.)]

1921 Dec 4-8 / Have Japan Chronicle. [X; 1547.]

1921 Dec 4-5/ Localized mets / At Tokio, Dec 5, between 4:15 and 5:00 (G.S.T. of Japan), or Dec 4, between 7:15 and 8:10 (G.M.T.)—at Tokio Astronomical Observatory, 50 or 60 meteors, of which 44 of the 46 recorded radiated from about 156° +37 near Beta Minoris—(?) / In Nature 109-121, Mr. Denning says this then near zenith in Japan, but not reported in England—radiant too near N-NE horizon. / How about Amer? [X; 1548.1, 1548.2. (Nature, 109-121.)]

1921 Dec 5 / 4 p.m. / "Weather experts puzzled." Sky over London tinted purple for about 10 minutes. / D. Chron—6-1-3. [X; 1549. (London Daily Chronicle, December 6, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Dec 6 / 19 h, 10 m / Great met / Vaucluse, France / La Nat Sup, Jan 7, 1922. [X; 1550. (La Supplement, January 7, 1922.)]

1921 Dec 7 / 9:30 p.m. / at Eastbourne / Great fireball in s.w. sky / D. Chron—8-1-5. [X; 1551. (London Daily Chronicle, December 8, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Dec 8 / Big Jap q. [X; 1552. (Ref.???)]

1921 Dec. 8-9 / night / Severe shock / Tokio / D. Express, Dec 9. [X; 1553. (London Daily Express, December 9, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 8 / Jap q? / not in Nature. [X; 1554. (Confirm.)]

1921 Dec. 9 / 19 h, 10 m / at Orange (Vaucluse) / great met / Bull Soc Astro de F 1922-137. [X; 1555. (Bulletin de la Societe Astronomique de France, 1922-137.)]

1921 Dec. 9 and preceding days / qs / Lake Bolsena region, Italy / Ref., Aug. 1. [X; 1556. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Dec 9 / Most violent q. in 20 years, at Tokio, Japan. / Ref., Aug. 1. [X; 1557. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Dec 10 / Thomson's W. News, 9-3 / Capt Eliot Victor Pringle, great-great-grandson of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, disap from Brown's Hotel, Dover street, London. 5 weeks later, loss of memory, but recognized in a hotel at Cambridge. / At [note cut off] / in [note cut off]. [E; 157. (Dundee Weekly News, December 10, 1921, p. 9 c. 3.)]

1921 Dec 11 / + / The People, 14-4—explosion of gunpwder works, near West Calder, Scotland. / Near Wenchburgh, 12 miles from Edinburgh, explosion of half a ton of gelatine, that was heard over 7 counties. / Day before, similar explosion at South Queens ferry, p. 17. [E; 158. (People, December 11, 1921, p. 14 c. 4 & p. 17.)]

1921 Dec. 11 / The People, 1-3 / Mrs. Augusta Emily Bugby (20) found in dead in bed, at Skegness. Nothing revealed of what could have caused death. Coroner had never before known of such a case. [E; 159. (People, December 11, 1921, p. 1 c. 3.)]

1921 Dec 12 / Big storm we were in. / paper of 19th. [X; 1558. (Ref.???)]

1921 Dec 12 / D. Express / Revival that began at Yarmouth spreading to Scotland. [E; 160. (London Daily Express, December 12, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 13 / Flames / D. Mail, 5-2 / At Budapest, a 13-year-old boy. Since early childhood, furniture had moved in his presence. Since his 12th birthday, mysterious fires had broken out in the house where he lived. This was in the town of Keeskemet. The villagers had driven him and his mother to Budapest. Here where he lodged, flames flickered over him when he slept, and singed his pillow. [E: 161.1, 161.2. (London Daily Mail, December 13, 1921, p. 5 c. 2.)]

1921 / ab. Dec 15 / First observation on luminous obj near Rushall and Harleston, Norfolk. / See Feb. 6. [E; 162. See: (1921 Feb 6, or 1922 Feb 6???).]

1921 Dec 15 / 8:45 a.m. / Rockwood etc., Tenn / q. / Bull-Amer 11-200. [X; 1559. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-200.)]

1921 Dec 15 / BO / (D. Chron), 3-4 / at Ludworth, Durham—a robin in a pit in a coal mine. 250 yards deep. “No one can discover how it got there,” [E; 163. (London Daily Chronicle, December 15, 1921, p. 3 c. 4.)]

1921 Dec 16 / 9:04 p.m. / Severe shock and loud rumbling sound, and 9:50 p.m., several places in Namaqualand, S. Africa. / Rand Daily Mail, 17th. [X; 1560. (Rand Daily Mail, December 17, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 16 / D. Express, 1-5 / Religious revival, n.e. coast of Scotland. 12 persons removed to the Aberdeen Asylum. / 17-7-2—shopkeepers who did not publically repent were boycotted. / Also at Yarmouth. There first. [E; 164. (London Daily Express, December 16, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.) (London Daily Express, December 17, 1921, p. 7 c. 2.)]

1921 Dec 17 / Destructive high tide at Hull. [X; 1561. (Ref.???)]

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1921 Dec. 17 / BO / manna / D. Express—24-5-5 / That at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, fell flakes of a substance. "It appears to be flour, a substance similar to Jewish Passover cake. Boers were convinced it was "manna". [X; 1562. (London Daily Express, December 24, 1921, p. 5 c. 5.)]

1921 Dec 24 / Oct 18 / manna / Told of in Klerksdorp Record, Dec. 15, and the chemists opinion accepted as final, with the comment that it opened up a suggestion of a valuable article of food which might be further investigated. / This was storm of 18th. / Were asked to believe an abudant food substance not known before. / In chemists letter, said found on and under gum trees after the hail storm. The chemist employed by the Department of Agriculture wrote that substance was of a large group including sugar cane and glucose, but just what, would have to be determined bu further examination. The Chief of the Division of Botany had been questioned but had no acquaintance with the phenomenon. The account goes on with exudations of sugar on eucalyptus trees in Australia. [X; 1563.1 to 1563.4. (Klerksdorp Record, December 15, 1921.) (Ref.???)]

[The following two notes were folded together with the paper clip by Fort. X: 1564-1565.]

1921 Dec. 24 / manna / I find nothing of this in Rand Daily Mail, but in issue of Dec 26th, said that after a hailstorm in Oct, at Klerksdorp, a white substance looking like a ceral had been found in the park. Examined by chemists. Said been a sugary substance that apparently been exuded by trees at bruised places. Said been a similar occurrence at Harrismith ab 3 years before, where the substance was collected and eaten. [X; 1564.1, 1564.2. (Rand Daily Mail, December 26, 1921.)]

[1921 Dec. 24] / 1921 Oct. 18 / In Klerksdorp Record, Oct 28, said that a few days after storm of the 18th, ground under some of the gum trees in the park and on trees, too, found strewn with small white granules, having the appearance of mealies burst by roasting. Sweetish taste. [X; 1565. (Klerksdorp Record, October 28, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 17 / Severe q. / Guam / Ref, Aug 1. [X; 1566. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Dec 18 and 19 / Gales and tidal waves flood Copenhagen. / D. Express 20-7-4. [X; 1567. (London Daily Express, December 20, 1921, p. 7 c. 4.)]

1921 Dec 18-19 / Det met / midnight / Holbeach, Lincolnshire / Brilliant white light and detonation. / D. Mail 21-7-6 / Moon dull copper-colored. / D. Mail, 22nd. [X; 1568. (London Daily Mail, December 22, 1921.)]

1921 Dec. 18 / Somewhere else? / Seismographs of the Lima (Peru) Geog. Soc registered a violent unknown [q] lasting 45 minutes. / Bull Amer 11-200. [X; 1569. (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-200.)]

1921 Dec. 18 / At Lima, Peru, seismographs registered a violent q., estimated to be 530 kilmeters north of Lima. / (Ref., Aug. 1). [X; 1570. Refer to: 1921 Aug 1, (X; 1419). (Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 11-197.)]

1921 Dec 20 / Rand Daily Mail of—large group of sunspots about central. [X; 1571. (Rand Daily Mail, December 20, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 22 / Violent th. storm near Johannesburg. Hail size pigeons' eggs. / Rand Daily Mail, 23rd. [X; 1572. (Rand Daily Mail, December 23, 1921.)]

1921 Dec 22 / Fla[mes] / D. Express, 5-3 / Mrs. Annie Reed, Hermon-hill, Walthamstow, woke at night and thought she saw flames. She went to the window to attract attention—fell out and injured so she died in the Essex Co. Hospital, Brentwood. [E; 165. (London Daily Express, December 22, 1921, p. 5 c. 3.)]

1921 Dec 23 / D. Express, 1-6 / Scottish revival with fiery crosses starting to march to London. [E; 166. (London Daily Express, December 23, 1921, p. 1 c. 6.)]

1921 Dec. 23 / D. Express, 5-4 / Ghost of Irene Munro said be haunting place where she was murdered, at Eastbourne. [E; 167. (London Daily Express, December 23, 1921, p. 5 c. 4.)]

1921 Dec. 25 / First ap. of polt of Uxbridge, Middlesex. / Thomson's Weekly News, Jan 14, 1922. / Century-old house, for 15 years home of Albert Burrows, a job-master, wife, daughter, and three sons. Heard a scream from a horse—ran to stable and found horses terrified. Went back to their fireplace—saw the tongs move. Heard loud sound. That night, with a freezing sensation, the son, Albert, a grown man, awoke and saw a ghost, to all appearances except seemingly burning eyes, staring down at him—cloth cap—greenish-black velvet jacket. The ghost shook his mattress vigorously. Later nights his bedclothes dragged from bed. Implements in the kitchen, left hanging on nails, found on floor. Albert and Benjamin, aged 19, changed rooms. Benjamin had similar experiences. He saw the ghost, who brought chill in the room with him. One day, in a hall, Mrs B saw the ghost, as “a man”. She screamed and he disappeared. [E; 168.1 to E; 168.5. (Dundee Weekly News, January 14, 1922.)]

1921 Dec 25 / (People), 7-6 / Revival / Newspapermen, at Inverellochy, stoned by a mob of revivalists. [E; 169. (People, December 25, 1921, p. 7 c. 6.)]

1921 Dec. 29 / 11 p.m. / Wellingborough (Northamptonshire) / strong shock / D. Express 31-1-5. [X; 1573. (London Daily Express, December 31, 1921, p. 1 c. 5.)]

1921 Dec 30 / During great storm this night, coast guards at Newtown and Gurnard on the Solent, saw what they thought were distress signal rockets. A motor life-boat went out, but no vessel found nor heard of later. / Lloyd's S. News, Jan 1-1-2. [X; 1574. (Lloyds Sunday News, January 1, 1922, p. 1 c. 2.)]