Summary
Bernice Riniker's Uncle Nick arrived in the barn in obvious distress. "He was so hot he was shaking," Riniker said.
A worker for Riniker's dad on their Balltown, Iowa, farm, Nick Engling became a victim of the summer of 1936.See the full content of this document
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One Hot July
"He died from the heat," recalled Riniker, an 83-year-old Dubuque resident who was a young teenager the summer when unbearable heat scorched the tri-state area.
John J. Behr, a well-known resident of Sherrill, Iowa, according to Telegraph Herald reports at the time, attended Sunday Mass at Saints Peter and Paul Church on July 12, 1936.Hymns would have been hard to sing as heat smothered the church- goers - including the 80-year-old B...See the full content of this document
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