RELIEF AT LAST.
RAIN AND LOWER TEMPERATURES. DROUGHT DEATH ROLL STANDS AT 890. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Monday, 7.5 p.m. CHICAGO, July 12. Relief from America’s devastating heat, spell, which in ten days has taken a toil of 890 lives, appeared in the far west to-day when rain caused temperatures to drop from 100 degrees to 40. The rain sweeping in from the Rockies was, however, draining ineffectively olf the drought-denuded land, which offered little resistance to the wasteful outflow. The heat, which has persisted from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, was relieved by showers in many eastern States.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1936, Page 5
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