Century-old Ti — climate change study
This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.
A team of Swedish geologists headed by Baron Gerhard De Geer was expected to reach Ticonderoga in the coming days to study a hypothesis that the glacial period passed because of climate changes rather than volcanic disturbances.
“The commission is planning to spend some time on Lake Champlain for the purpose of making geological investigations into these facts,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on Aug. 19, 1920.
De Geer, president of University of Stockholm from 1902 to 1910, developed the Varve-counting method of dating lake beds by counting the layers of alternating light and dark-colored clay sediment, according “Encyclopedia Britannica.”
The research expedition was to start at Lake Champlain and work its way north into Canada and west to the Rocky Mountains.
In other Aug. 19, 1920 Ticonderoga Sentinel news:
Charles T. Locke of Ticonderoga, going into his junior year at Union College, won a $100-per-year scholarship for a veteran or nurse from Essex County.
Locke qualified for the scholarship by achieving the highest score on a competitive academic exam.
Roland Miller of Schenectady purchased the Vermont House hotel in Crown Point and planned to re-open it as a full-service inn.
Most recently it had been used just for an ice cream and soft drink snack bar.
The Plattsburgh semi-professional basketball offered Hermon Denton, a Ticonderoga basketball standout, a contract at $75 per week — the equivalent of $957 in 2020 dollars — for the season.
“He has not yet made a decision on the matter.”
Moses-Ludington Hospital thanked J.A.Y. Barnes of New York City for a donation of fruit, cigars, cigarettes and candy to distribute to patients.
At Eagle Lake, “little Georgie” at Goodacres Camp caught a nine-pound pickerel using bread crumbs.
The Rev. Stevens, pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, returned from an extended visit to family in Belgium.
The Elizabethtown Post & Gazette, which had been published for 67 years, was up for sale.
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