HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA.
EIGHTY PEOPLE DEAD.
EXCESSIVE HUMIDITY.
NEW YORK, July 21-
The middle-western, and the ©.astern sections of the United States are . sweltering in the first serious heat wave since 1925, with temperatures running close to 100. There is a. heavy toll of deaths and much suffering. At least eighty deaths have been recorded since Sunday. The humidity is high in many sections of the country, particularly along the Atlantic coast, making the heat mdre oppressive.
The death list is heaviest in the middle west, where fifty Natalities are already reported. There have been eleven deaths, in Ohio, seven in New York, two in Al? bany, and eight in New England during the past thirty-six hours.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5004, 23 July 1926, Page 2
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118HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5004, 23 July 1926, Page 2
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