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    "title": "Newspaper Clippings",
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    "ocrText": "THE\nCOMING\nECLIPSE.\nAn Obscuration of Half the Sun's Disc\nat Washington.\n(18803\nCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 17.-On Friday,\nDecember 31, the sun will, when rising west\nof Eastport, in Maine, be partially eclipsed;\nat Boston about a third, Washington nearly a\nhalf, etc., but as we proceed towards the\nWest, less and less of the eclipse will be visi-\nble, and along the Mississippi the eclipse will\nend at or before the sun rises; east of East-\nport the whole of the eclipse may be seen; also\nin nearly the whole of the North Atlantic,\nin the west of Europe and in the northwest\nof Africa, but at no place will it be central\nand where largest (latitude 65, longtitude 491/2\nwest), less than three quarters of its surface\nwill be obscured. At the time of this eclipse\nboth sun and moon are at about their least\npossible distance from the earth, which is\nremarkable; moreover, this eclipse is the\nseeond large one of the sun in this country\nin the same year, which is also very rare.\nThe eclipse of January 11, was total in Cali-\nfornia, in a narrow strip of about twenty\nmiles wide from the ocean, in latitude 36\nnortheast to Nevada, SO that the duration\nof totality at Sycamore, on the Cen-\ntral Pacific railroad (where it was well\nobserved), was only half a minute; but\nit was the last total eclipse in the United\nStates within twenty years. The eclipse of\nDecember 31 will take place at Harvard ob-\nservatory, Cambridge, as follows:\nh. m. S.\nSun rises about one-third eclipsed at 7 30 00 A.M-\nGreatest obscuration (.46)\n8 12 50 A.M.\nEclipse ends\n9 11 37 A.M.\nThe next total eelipse of the sun in the\nUnited States will take place in the forenoon\nof May 28, 1900, when the shadow of the\nmoon will pass from New Orleans to the\nocean, near Norfolk, and cause a total eclipse\nunder the central line of nearly a minute and\na half, and a very large eclipse (o ver 11 digits,\nor .92) in Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-\nphia, New York and Boston."
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