12 October 2007

Cold Enough For You? Not Yet



Feet Frozen in His Fireless Cabin

FLEMINGTON, N.J., Feb. 17 - The thermometer registered 10 below zero this morning. This surpasses all previous records.

Peach growers in Hunterdon County fear the intense cold has injured the buds, some of which, under the influence of the warm weather, had advanced. Truckmen say blackberry bushes in this section are injured.

Peter Sintox, who lives on Sourland Mountain, was rescued from his cabin today by a hunter who went to it to get warm. The man's feet are badly frozen.


[The New York Times 18 February 1896]

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