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Blizzard Relief Follows Severe Iowa Freeze of 1936
A Rolfe Arrows report recalls a February 1936 blizzard in northwestern Iowa. Temperatures plunged to -24 F, highways blocked, coal rationed, and Mayor J H Brinkman commandeered station coal to ease fuel famine. Coal deliveries and normal business resumed after a long fuel shortage and school closures.
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Rolfe Arrows
Mercury
J. H. Brinkman
Fort Dodge
Guy Lothian
Humboldt
Fred Witt
Jolliffe's Bakery
Humboldt County Relief Office
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Brinkman