Taken from the Morrow County Sentinel dated January 15, 1925
First Eclipse Since 1806 will be visible in this part of the country.
A great black disc slowly blotting out the sun. The rush of a gigantic shadow across the earth abruptly turning day into night. The sudden flashing of a streaming, pearly halo around the darkened orb. Outbursts of blood-red light from its circumference. Stars shining in the daytime. A sudden chill in the air.
This is what Mt Gilead residents will experience on Saturday, Jan 24, when the first eclipse of the sun since June 18, 1806, will be visible in these parts. Not again until 2024 will a total eclipse of the sun be visible in the northeastern states. Towns and cities within the path of totality will view the grandeur of the spectacle with best results, but hundreds of cities just outside the path will see nearly a complete obliteration of the sun.
Along a strip 10 miles wide extending from west of Duluth, Minn to the Atlantic ocean to New York City and Cape Cod, the coming eclipse will be total. Mt Gilead residents will experience the eclipse just outside the totality line which will pass north of Menominee, Mich.
The predecessor of the coming eclipse came on Jan 14, 1907 and fell upon Russia and Central Asia. The moon coming between the sun and the earth is the cause of the eclipse of the sun. The shadow of the earth’s only satellite falls upon the earth and plunges a small portion of it into twilight.
Not since the coming of the white man to America has this phenomenon been visible from certain parts of the path over which the total eclipse may be seen. The eclipse is scheduled to occur in this section at 7:50.