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Show MERCURY REACHES 104 AT CONCORDIA, KAN. WASHINGTON. July 12. The hottest place In the country today was Concordia. Con-cordia. Kan., whore tho mercury climbed to 104. Tho entire central west sweltered. The 100 mark was reached at Wichita, Kan., and the temperature fell only two degrees short of that In Omaha. " Fort Worth, Tex., and Fort Smith, Ark. Thero was discomfort throughout most of the country except In the northwest. New England and the middle Atlantic statCH. where cooler weather prevailed. The weather bureau gave no ossurance of rollcf for Saturday and Sunday. There wero local thunderstorms today In the Atlantic At-lantic and east gulf states, but they did little to temper the heat. |