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Show JANUARY THAW HAS NOW SETJN The thawing weather of toda has a tendency to disclose water pipes that have been broken by the frost and in some Instances there have been overflows On Twenty -rourth street and lefferson avenue a pipe leading to a residence was found to have beep broken, allowing an overflow over-flow to the sidewalk and into the street. The situation was soon re- I lieved. however, by the appe?rance jof Clem Martin, th'e street supervisor supervis-or with a snow scraper to remove the obstruction. The road supervisor was kept busy in other placet clearing gutters anil sidewalks of ice and snow The temperature tem-perature climbed to 40 degrees above zero by noon today and the streets were slushy. It is said by some of the local weather prophets that the "January thaw" is near at hand. |