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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1982
Page
4
In Centralia Missouri a natural gas line pressure surge caused 28 homes and businesses to erupt in flames within seconds. Neta Cox described a furnace blast as a fireball like a blowtorch after her son warned her to flee.
Workers hang a 27 by 36 foot Picasso backdrop painted in 1936. The Le 14 Juillet piece will be displayed at the University of Iowa Museum of Art for two months to showcase the artist's work in a special exhibit.
In Philadelphia crowds queued for the final Philadelphia Bulletin edition as the 134 year old paper folded after the press run. The day’s front page slogan shifted to past tense signaling the end of an era and potential collector’s item status amid newsroom nostalgia. Fire scenes show Hazell battling multiple blazes while Pam Petri mourns a disrupted home, neighbors aid firefighters amid ruined rubble.
In April 1934 on Mount Washington New Hampshire Hugh Herr then 17 and companion Jeffrey Batzer 20 survived three days in extreme cold after being stranded. Both suffered frostbite and hypothermia with body temperatures around 90 in Littleton Hospital. The mountain is famed for brutal weather including record winds of 231 mph and has a long fatal toll with at least 50 deaths on Mount Washington and 31 on nearby peaks since 1855.
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