HEAT WAVE.
IN UNITED STATES. Over 80 Deaths. (Received July 22 at 7.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 21. The Middle Western and the Eastern sections of the United States are now Sweltering in the first serious heat wave of .1926, with temperatures running up close to one hundred. A heavy toll of deaths and suffering is reported,. At least eighty deaths have been recorded since Sunday. The humidity is high in many sections, particularly along the Atlantic Coast, making the heat more oppressive. The death list is the heaviest in the Middle-West, where 50 fatalities arc already reported. Eleven have died in Ohio, seven in New York, two in Albany and eight in the New England, states during the J>ast thirty-six hours.
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Grey River Argus, 23 July 1926, Page 5
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122HEAT WAVE. Grey River Argus, 23 July 1926, Page 5
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