The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-17
GREAT TROUBLE
 F0RESEEN FROM
 PLANET GROUPS

1 Owing to the strange grouping of l 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 ~e- l 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 Decem- | Der IT, 1919, and will be T vast wound in the side of the sun.
 It will be a gigantic explosion of flaming gasses, Ieaping hundreds of thousands of miles out into space It will have a crater large enough to engulf the earth as Vesuvius might engulf a football
 Such a spot will be rich enough in electromagnetic energy to fling the atmosphere of our planet into a disturbance without precondont or parallel.
 There will also be gigantic lava eruptions, great earthquakes. to say nothing of floods and fearful cold.
 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 I say to you
 Be warned in advance. Tremendous things are going to happen from Dec. Y to Dec. 20, 1919, and afterwards.
 Here are the simple ct astound- ing facts, that enable me to make this prophecy.
 The planets in their orbits wing in great ellipses around the sun. They are linked to the sun, and to each ! other by chains of electromagnetic 1 energy whose impelIing forces coun- 1 teract each other and hold each plan pt in itc raorrIlo,, Do+b
 Whenever two planets wheel into such position that they pull together with the sun either in coniuction 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 a 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 a small sunspit and a small storm, Three cause a large one, four make a very large spot indeed
 Rut-on December l7, 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" eyer 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- ton 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 in perfect position to receive almost the full force of the monster eletrical 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 sun 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
 What will be the outcome? My knowledge does not permit me to say beyond the fact that the storms, CT ruptions and earthquakes will be tre- mendOus in their strength and scope
 Remeber the date-December r to 20 and after.
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 Father-Joe, why do you suppose