Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1918 — Blame It on Mars. [ARTICLE]

Blame It on Mars.

During the 1916 opposition- of Mars the northern snow cap of that planet extended about 185 miles farther south than in the previous opposition. In reporting this observation. Prof. W. H. Pickering suggested that it would be interesting to see whether a cold winter on Mars would be followed by a cold winter on earth. ■'Apparently this was the case, as the winter of 1916-1 T seemed to have been considerably colder the average In both Europe and America.—Scientific American.