HEAVY SNOWFALL
VANCOUVER SCHOOLS CLOSED.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Vancouver (8.C.), January 23. The mainland has been gripped since Sunday by heavy snows and six inches of rain, paralysing communications and the railway service. The Vancouver schools have been closed. Vancouver Island was hit to a lesser extent. Numerous trains have been stalled in the snowdrifts a hundred miles east of Vancouver since Monday. TOWNS SNOWBOUND NORTH AMERICA GRIPPED. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.5 p.m.) New York, January 23. The North American Continent is gripped in one of the most severe snowstorms and cold waves in history. Western Canada seems cut off from all communication from Eastern Canada save by radio, while Iroquois Falls, an Ontario paper manufacturing town, has reported a temperature of 73 degrees below zero. The snow is piled heavily on the Atlantic seaboard towns. New York City is under a foot of snow.
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Southland Times, Issue 22489, 25 January 1935, Page 7
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149HEAVY SNOWFALL Southland Times, Issue 22489, 25 January 1935, Page 7
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