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Show WINTER 18 SEVEREST Thousands of Chicago's Poor Forced to Seek Aid Chicago. Feb. 24. Gauged by the number of poor who have applied for assistance at the twelve xUllonn of the United Charities of Chicago, this lias been tb severest winter in several sev-eral decades. Superintendent Kingsley of the United Charities ald: "Into the dozen relief headquarters if the United Charities thousands of lcllins of the. cold have been flocking, and yesterday's renewal of the frigid weather, when tho thermometer went 1o 0 degrees below y.ero. Indicated that the endurance of Chicago's poor was near tho snapping point. "Where. 200 baa been the ordinary number of a day's appeals, there wore over 300 yttrday." |