Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — A Hot September. [ARTICLE]

A Hot September.

The first fifteen days of September were the hottest September days for twenty-seven years. During five of those fifteen days the thermometer registered over 90. Without exception, since 1870 there has not been a September that has had over two days that registered over 90. That this is the dustiest September ever known will go without contradiction.