Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 6 · column 6 of 9 · from the scan, no model involved
wave. The temperature’s risin’, it’s not so surprisin’....”
Not that anybody was surprised after so many wilting weeks. “Heat wave” was born as the catch phrase of the day. Police statistics showed an increase in housebreaking, murders and other crimes. Doctors confirmed what everybody suspected anyway’ Heat waves tend to make people irritable, moody, quarrelsome, even violent.
Sizzling Sunshine
It was bad enough to know the temperature had climbed again above 90 or 100, let alone to learn how much the day’s sunshine sets the Earth sizzling—with the energy equivalent of some 126 trillion horsepower. Weathermen explain that a heat wave occurs when a high pressure area stalls over a region in the summer, resulting in a period
79.8%