Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1901 — Sunday Was Still Hotter. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Was Still Hotter.

Sunday was one of the hottest days ever knowcT over a good portion of the United States, since records were kept. In Chicago all past records were brokeD, and at sp.ra. it reached 103 degrees in the Auditorium tower. In Indianapolis it was several degrees cooler, the highest official record being 100 degrees. This was the highest there for two years. Here it is impossible to give the exact degree of heat. The only government and presumably perfectly accurate thermometer here f the one in care of J. F. Bruner, has been located on a shut-in where the afternoon sun beats in, in such a manner as to raise the thermometer several degrees higher than if differently located. The showed yesterday was 106 degrees. Common thermometers, everyone of which its owner thinks absolutely reliable, varied from 97 to 108 degrees, or more. James Matheson just north of town reported 108 degrees. A. L. Willis, 104. Mr. Daugherty, 106. Probably somewhere about 103 or 104 degree would be a fair average, and probably the government thermometer would have shown at least that, in any ordinary location. The heat began early and continued pretty much all night, although some time in the night the government thermometer got down to 74 degrees. Inside, few, if any houses, did it get below 80 degrees during the whole night. The air, fortunately, was dry. Had such a more than ! torrid heat been accompanied by a humid atmosphere, it would have been almost beyond human endurance.