* Astronomy

"Observations by Canton men of the large meteor which swept over and was plainly visible in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio on October 5 last," said an article in The Repository in September 1908, "play an important part in a scientific discussion of this phenomenon in a U.S. weather publication just received by Prof. C.F. Stokey of the local weather observatory."
Almost a year after the "peculiar appearance" of the meteor in the sky over Stark County, people were still talking about it. Scientists still were studying the fiery object. People in Canton still were impressed that they were a part of the astronomical event. And The Repository was still writing about it.

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