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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 8, 20 December 1911, Page 3

Somebody lias discovered that, thanks to tho influence of magnetic .storms, the world is: slowing down in its daily rotation, and that, unless a change sots in, it will soon stop altogether. There will then be a perpetual day of withering heat on one side, and a perpetual night of freezing cold on tho other, with only a narrow temperate strip between for human habitation. Where exactly that belt will be situated is, of course, not known yet, and it is perhaps just as well. it would run a grave risk of being cornered by the speculative builder even now—though the earth’s stoppage, according to earliest calculations, is not due for '1320 years yet. And much may happen to most of ns before 5231 !