The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1919-12-12
BIG STORM IS
BILLED DEC. i
Big Sun Spot Will Ap-
pear, Causing Fierce
Storms

On December 18th there will be an
unusual and overbalanced collection of
six powerful planetary bodies in the
solar system grouped on one side of
the sun. The pull of these planets.
Prof. Porta, a noted astronomer, be-
lieves will produce a gigantic sun
spot, which will explode the earth S
volcanoes shake us with earthquakes
and drown us In floods. He believes
1t will pull from the sun the mightiest
sun spot or explosion of gases ever
known to man.
While astronomers generally agree
with Prof Porta as to the unusual sit
uation in the heavens on the nth.
they do not admit the consequences he
predicts, and point out that nearly
similar grouping of the planets has
occurred before without producing any
cataclysm Oh the earth. However.
the argument will be decided for us in
a few days. Here Is Prof Portals pre-
diction:
Owing to strange grouping of six
mighty planets, such as has not been
seen in score of centuries, the Unit
ed States this month will be swept by
the most terrific weather cataclysm
ever experienced since human history
began.
1T will be caused by the hugest sun
spot on record. a sun spot that will be
visible to the naked eye. Since men
first began to make record of events.
no sun spot has been large enough to
be seen without the aid of instruments.
This one will be-
The sun spot that will appear De-
cember H. 1919, will be a vast wound
in the side of the sun. Ii will be
gigantic explosion of flaming gases,
leaping hundreds of thousands of
miles out into space. 1t will have
crater large enough TO engulf the
earth, much as Venus might engulf a
football.
Such a sun spot will be rich enough
in electro-maenetic energy to fling the
atmosphere of our planet into. dis
turbance without precedent or parallel
There will be hurricanes, lightning.
colossal rains. 1t will be weeks before
the earth will regain its normal con-
nil aI. L..
lava eruptions. great earthquakes. to
say nothing of floods and fearful cold.
Il make this startling prophecy with
no desire to be merely sensational or
alarming. 1t is simply because my
study of the planets has revealed GER
tain results with mathematical GER
tainty. On December II, 1919, no less
than seven plants. will pull Jointly on
the sun. These will include all the
mightiest planets. those which the
most powerful pull. Six of them
Mercury, Mars, Venus. Jupiter. Sa-
junction; grouped together in the
greatest league of planets ever known
in the annals of astronomy. They will
be massed in the narrow limit ~ 20
degrees in the same side of the sun
Directly opposite. coming into opposi-
tnon with the gigantic league will be
the huge planet Uranus. The magnetic
currents between Uranus and the six
planets will pierce the sun ike a
mighty spear. Our earth is outside
the league. at an angle of nearly 20
degrees-in perfect position to receive
almost full force of the monster cleo
trical disturbance as it leaps into ac-
tion on what. to us, will be the east
ern horizon of the suns disc Be warn
ed in advance. Tremendous thing are
going to happen from December II 10
20, 1919 and afterwards.