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Show Middle West Feels Heat Wave Chicago The middle west sweltered swel-tered again, with no relief m sight. In Chicago the temperature was 93. The records of deaths attributed to the heat here reached eighteen. Three prostrations were reported. The thermometer ther-mometer touched 97 on June 30, 1890, and in 1919 it reached 99. City engineer en-gineer received hundreds of complaints com-plaints from residents of upper apartments, apart-ments, because water pressure had fal- len too low for domestic use. In the tenement districts it is the hot wea-I wea-I ther custom to leave 'the water run-i run-i ning continuously in kitchen sinks to i keep babies' milk and foodstuffs cool. |