Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1919 — The Hottest city. [ARTICLE]

The Hottest city.

The city of Hyderabad, on the great Sind desert of India, has the reputation of being the hottest place in the world, having a- shade temperature of 127 degrees during the summer months! Even the natives Bad it hot —and that is saying something. In order to cool their houses as much as possible, the people make use of curious ventilators very much like those on shipboard, “setting” them so as to convey a breeze to the dwellers in the hot rooms below. Every residential building has several of these Queer airshafts leading down to the principal living rooms, and especially to the bedrooms. Even so, it is practically impossible, during the terrible heat nf summer, to get to sleep until two or three o'clock tn the morning, and then one only gets a couple of hours’ rest, as the rays of the Indian sun are specially strong early in the morning, and soon raise the temperature again to an unbearable extent.