NORTH AMERICA FREEZES
Most Severe Cold Wave BELOW-ZERO TEMPERATURES (Received 11, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YQRK, Dec. 10, Half the continent is covered by snow and ice in the most severe cold wave of the winter. Thirty-seyen deaths are attributed to the weather. Below-zero temperatures have been recorded in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado North Dakota, South Dakota. Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa, and 40 degrees below have been recorded at Battle Ford (Saskatchewan). A bread and milk shortage is reported from Kenmore (New York),) where the snow js five feet deep. Train and road services are blocked in a number of areas, including Toronto, where a blizzard has been raging for two days. Farmers in the south are artificialiy heating their crops to prevent annihilation.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 5
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