The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-10-20
GREAT TROUBLE
 F0RESEEN FROM
 PLANET GROUPS


 Owing to the strange grouping of six mighty planets, such as has not been seen in a score of centuries, the United States next December will be swept by the most terrific catacysm experienced since human history be- gan, according to Prof. Alberta F. Porta, who has the following to say:
 It will be caused by the hugest sun spot on record
 A sunspot that will be visible to the
 Since men first began to make re- naked eye.
 Since men first began to make re- cords of events no sun spot has been large enough to be seen without the aid of instruments This one will be-
 The sunspot will appear on Decent Der IT, 1919, and will be I vast wound in the side of the sun.
 It will be gigantic explosion of flaming gases, leaping hundreds of thousands of miles out into space. It will have crater large enough to engulf the earth as Vesuvius might engulf a football.
 Such spot will be rich enough in electromagnetic energy to fling the atmosphere of our planet into a disturbance without precendent or parallel.
 There will also be gigantic lava eruptions, great earthquakes, to say nothing of floods and fearful cold.
 I make this startling prophecy with no desire to be merely sensational or alarming. It is merely because my study of the planets has revealed certain results with mathematical certainty, that say to you:
 Be warned in advance. Tremendous things are going to happen from Dec. i7 to Dec. 20, 1919, and afterwards.
 Here are the simple get astound- ing facts, that enable me to make this prophecy.
 The planets in their orbits swing in great ellipses around the sun. They are linked to the sun, and to each other by chains of electrO-magnetic energy whose impelling forces coun- teract each other and hold each plan ct in its regular path.
 Whenever two planets wheel into such position that they pull togethe,' with the sun-either in conjuction to the same side of the sun or in opposi- tion with the sun between them, their united pull causes the suns explode to leap out into space in the whirling volcano We call sun spot.
 The sunspots in turn cause storms in the atmosphere of our earth and doubtless on other planets as well.
 Two planets united are enough to cause small sunspit and small storm. Three cause large one, four make a very large spot indeed.
 But-on December IT, 1919, no less than seven planets will pull jointly on the sun. These include all the might fest planets those with the most pow erful pull.
 Six of them, Mercury, Mars Sat urn, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune will be in conjuction: grouped togeth- CT in the mightiest league of plan cts" ever known in the annals of as- tronomy.
 They will be massed in the narrow limit of but 26 degrees, on the same (side of the sun.
 Directly opposite coming into posi- tion with this gigantic league, will be the huge planet Urinus. The magnet ic currents between Uranus and the six planets will pierce the sun like a mighty spear.
 Our earth is outside the league at an angle of nearly ninety degrees-in perfect position to receive almost the full force of the monster clerical disturbance as it leaps into activity on what, to us, will be the eastern horizon of the suns disk. This means that we shall get the strength of the storm when the sum- spot is at it's worst, before the explod- ing gases have had time to die down. Such a close grouping of planets has never been recorded before. The whole solar system will be strangely out of balance.