AMERICAN COLD WAVE
More Than Hundred Deaths (Received January 21, 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 21. A .sustained mat ion-wide cold wave has to date caused 112 deaths. The temperature was 20 degrees below zero at Greenville. Maine. A strike of coal deliverymen accentuated the discomfort in New York, where the temperature was 12deg. above zero. The Hudson River is frozen to a depth of a foot. A 100-ton (anker sank oil New Jersey. Ice pierced her hull as she was attempting to free another vessel
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 100, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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86AMERICAN COLD WAVE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 100, 22 January 1940, Page 7
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