Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — MANY SEE AURORA BOREALIS [ARTICLE]

MANY SEE AURORA BOREALIS

Unusual Display in the Heavens Witnessed at Chicago. Chicago, March B.—-Nature last night gave Chicago a special treat —an unusual exhibition of one of its most wonderful free shows, the aurora borealis. Almost directly overhead, ehoi’tly before ten o’clock, what appeared to be an immense sea flower, with rough edged, uneven petals radiating from the center, blossomed forth in cloudlike form. Greenish yellow lights played across the northern sky. Above them glowed spots of pale red that seemed to fade out and in a few minutes reappear, not far distant from where they first were seen. And then there were tlie streamers across the north that seemed to stretch from tlie northern horizon to (lie zenith like waving ribbons or bands of light from great searchlights. Never was the phenomenon stationary for tin instant. Dispatches from points all over the country reported the brilliance of the display. Wire trouble north and east of New York was reported by the telegraph companies.