[meteorite-list] Newspaper article; Jan. 11, 1909 Macon, Georgia

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:55 2004
Message-ID: <20021003072945.24978.qmail_at_web10302.mail.yahoo.com>

If interested I have the article of the Bendego
meteorite found from the Scientific American of the 19
October 1889.
Regards


Matteo

--- MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_msn.com> wrote:
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> Paper: THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH
> Location: Macon,Georgia
> Date: Monday,January 11,1909
> Page: ?
> THE METEOR NOT FOUND; TURKEY DINNER PREVENTED
> Mr. Turner Says His Friends Need Not Worry, as He
> Will Find It Yet.
> Owing to the fact that Mr. J. B. Turner was invited
> out to a turkey dinner yesterday, and accepted the
> invvitiation, he was unable to devote as much time
> to finding of the meteor in the Corbin field last
> Wednesday afternoon as he wished. Besides, the weeds
> are high in the field which renders finding a
> falling star quite a difficult matter. Mr. Turner
> says, however, that it is there and he will find it.
> There is no man in Macon who has more friends than
> Mr. Turner, and there is not one who does not hope
> that he will find that meteor, and that it wil
> contain a diamond of tremendous size. Such things
> have occurred, the presence of a diamond in a
> meteor, and there is no telling what the one that
> fell in Corbin's field contains.
>


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