Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — WHERE ZERO LANDED HARD [ARTICLE]

WHERE ZERO LANDED HARD

The Chicago papers are advertising as lost, strayed or stolen, the zero wave that the Weather Bureau has long been promising for that region, and fixed its time of arrival for Monday night, without fail. It did not arrive however, by about nine degrees. However, if the Chicagoans will enquire down this way they will find where their lost zero lit, and lit hard, too. And find it right here in the same region where so many previous lost zeroes have brought up before, with a short turu. Aud it was zero and to spare too, the U. S. registering minimum theremometer at the Government Weather Bureau station here having reached an extreme low mark of four degrees below zero. This is the lowest mark of the present winter, so far, the lowest previous record being just half a degree below zero, on the night of Dec. 23rd. That low mark was, like this, confined to a narrow belt Of Indiana. This time the cold hangs on with a firm grip, as it was still at zero, at 7 o’clock a. m. and at noon it was only 15 above.