The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-30
BIRTH OF THE MOON
LUNA WAS FLUNG OUT oFTHE EARTH
INTO SPACE
She Once Filled. Perhaps. the Great
Basin Now Occupied by the Pacific
0cean-Iatest Ideas of Science as to
Conditions on Our Satellite.

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not the land bound. sea swept globe
50 familiar to Us. but a liquid mass on
which tioafcd crust some thirty-ive
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,re, - +t,a+ ~ tho crnr;se pawn and
tho soft oo1dan glow that ushers in
to,.rostrial dov there cannot he The
s,,n 1oans fron, tho borizon flaming
.i,.1-1o and tho loCtiar naaks imme
diotaI,. saah into nrb+
Thoro is M az,re sl,v IN re,ieve the
r,a,7o+oro,,s offnc+c of inLv hIac,, shad
ors and dazz,inp white exnanses The
SIM cleans in fierce splendor with nc
cIo,,ds to diffuse its binding light
All dav long if is accompanicd by tbs
r,.aird ,,odiacaI LIGHT that we behold NJ
rora intorvols
rvon IN r,iddov tho beavans ar,
,i+ch h1,c,, ca 1bo+ dosnita tho SIM
licnt the stars and planets clea II
with brightness that they never ex
hihit to Ms ever, on the clearest o.
moonless nights at sea. They shine
staadiIv too for II is the earth's at
,nosnhoro that causns tbom tn twink.
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