From the July 11, 1936, issue

PELTIER COMET BECOMES VISIBLE TO EYE ON JULY 14

One of the most spectacular celestial displays since famous Halley’s comet swept the sky in 1910 will be the appearance of the new Peltier comet to observers using only their own eyes, about the middle of July.

On the night of May 14, Leslie C. Peltier, of Delphos, Ohio, one of America’s best-known comet hunters (with four comet discoveries then already to his credit), was scanning the northeast sky with his small telescope.