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...pressure at sea level, practically a vacuum. Highly tenuous though that upper medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will be able to put it to some purpose...
George D. Carbary was elected State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...January one Boyd Fairchild, Dry snooper, reported to the State's Attorney a purchase of liquor at the home of one Joseph De King, 38, in Aurora. For this information he was paid $5. A "John Doe" warrant was sworn...
...Springfield the Aurora episode became much-needed ammunition for the Wets in the Legislature in their attempt to repeal the State enforcement act of 1921. Meanwhile Attorney-General Oscar E. Carlstrom prepared to direct the investigation of the De King killing over Car-bary's head...
...Sunbursts are going on all the time. They resemble clouds from active volcanoes. To men they are visible as sun spots and have some, yet unascertainable, relation to the Aurora Borealis...