Mariners virtually confide their lives and property to the keeping of the Weather Bureau. Farmers from Maine to California depend upon it for warning and advice.
One prediction alone saved $15,000,000 worth of property and many human lives. Another forecast, covering a small section, saved $100,000 worth of property in a few hours.
You should know about the thermometer which will measure the heat of a candle 5 miles away, and the tiny pen suspended by a woman's hair, which registers the minutest atmospheric change.
Every branch of the Government is packed with interest for the man or woman who is a citizen of it, or the boy or girl who will be a citizen some day.
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch. 