Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1901 — Sunday Was a Scorcher. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Was a Scorcher.

Sunday was a schorcher from Soorcherville. It was the hottest day of the 20tli century, so far. But though hotter it was not so severe weather here, as the hot and humid day about two weeks ago when 8 or 10 persons were overcome by the heat. Sunday the atmosphere was comparatively dry and the heat therefore comparatively endurable. A good breeze also tempered the heat to the unshorn lambs. Thermometers, as usual, varied widely. But none that made any pretentions of being in businees, at all, scored less than 95. Bruner’s U. S. thermometer, in its hen-coop house, on a hot roof, went up to 107. In Chioago the official register, on top of the Auditorium was 97 degrees. That is the hottest day since July 1896. In Indianapolis the highest official register was 95 degrees.