U.S.A. HEAT WAVE
FIFTY DEATHS REPORTED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK. July 8. Fifty persons have been killed by a heat wave extending from the Atlantic seaboard to the middle western districts. The temperature in the latter was 110 degrees, and in North Dakota 91 degrees. Extreme humidity is producing much suffering in New York. In the agricultural areas of the Missouri and Ohio river valleys it is reported that crops are suffering from drought and harvesters are collapsing in the fields.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1937, Page 7
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