This Week in Odessa History

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From The Odessa Record

August 20, 1915

Hot weather hangs on. The unusual warm spell has continued throughout the past week, not one day since last Friday having shown a temperature as low as 90 and two days were as high as 97. The average for the past week has been 94 thus maintaining the same record as was established for the two weeks up to last Friday. In three weeks of hot weather just passed, through, the longest hot spell ever known in this country in the memory of old-timers, the thermometer has gone below 90 on just once day, Thursday, August 12th. On that date it was 89....