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100 Years Ago: 'This is the Hottest Ever' Says Oldest Resident
Six days a weeks Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.
July 2 fell on a Sunday in 1911, and the Marlboro Daily Enterprise was not published on Sundays. He is an entry from the following day:
July 3, 1911: One Woman is Prostrated: Hottest Ever, 'Tis Said, and Oldest Inhabitant Doesn't Dispute the Fact
This is the hottest ever. The oldest inhabitant never saw anything like it. The weather man got busy early in the morning. About 7 o'clock the thermometer at the residence of Thomas F. Williams, Liberty St., was 82, two hours later the thermometer at Barnard's drug store was 90 and at 9:45, 94 was registered. It is good even betting that the 100 mark will be passed before noon.
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A Woman was prostrated by the heat near the monument. She is said to have resided in Spencer. A horse fell down near the corner of Main and Newton streets, and was revived by putting some ice on his head. Ice cream, soda and other chilly drinks are just now popular with the multitude.
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