HEATHS IN COLD.
UNITED STATES VISITATION. NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Intense cold still grips the Middle West, with the Weather Bureau promising no relief for several days. Icy winds blowing across the Central States added to the suffering, and the deathroll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks is now estimated to exceed 200. . Three fishermen marooned on floating ice on Lake Michigan have been given up as lost. . , From small towns throughout the States of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, and. Ohio came reports of exhausted or dwindling supplies of fuel and food, with snow-drifts blocking highways and halting some railways. On reports of profiteering m coal, authorities at AVashmgton indicated that they were considering fixing emergency prices if it became necessary . Tlie seven Civilian Conservation Corps boys who were adrift on ice off the Massachusetts coast were rescued alter a night on the ice. An aeroplane discovered them m Cape Loci Bay and a coastguard cutter removed them with the aid of small boats.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 63, 12 February 1936, Page 7
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