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Papa Charles tramps out into the newly fallen snow to find a good place to measure its depth.
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[The headline]
CANTON SNOWBOUND
BUSINESS SUSPENDED
Street Railways Have Not Turned a Wheel and Will Not till Storm Abates.
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN
Dueber Factory Forced to Close Because Enough Employes Did Not Come Out to Work - - Other Works Crippled - - Traffic of All Description Seriously Impaired - - Greatest Snow Storm Experienced Here for Many Years.
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BEATS THE RECORD.
Weather Observer's Record Shows Nothing Like the Storm.
Mr. Charles F. Stokey, of 909 West Ninth street, the government weather observer, said at noon that the snowfall probably exceeded any other ever experienced at this season of the year in this vicinity.
"My record goes back to 1882 and shows nothing like it," he said, "and my memory goes further but recalls nothing approaching it. On March 31, 1880, there was a snowfall of twelve inches, but that was twenty days earlier in the season. I measured the fall at 10 o'clock this morning, selecting a level place where the snow would fall naturally and I could obtain the nearest correct measurement and found that 16 inches had fallen. Two or three more inches have undoubtedly since fallen. I have not yet calculated the amount of rainfall this represents, but it is very heavy."
CANTON SNOWBOUND
BUSINESS SUSPENDED
Street Railways Have Not Turned a Wheel and Will Not till Storm Abates.
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN
Dueber Factory Forced to Close Because Enough Employes Did Not Come Out to Work - - Other Works Crippled - - Traffic of All Description Seriously Impaired - - Greatest Snow Storm Experienced Here for Many Years.
[The excerpt from the article]
BEATS THE RECORD.
Weather Observer's Record Shows Nothing Like the Storm.
Mr. Charles F. Stokey, of 909 West Ninth street, the government weather observer, said at noon that the snowfall probably exceeded any other ever experienced at this season of the year in this vicinity.
"My record goes back to 1882 and shows nothing like it," he said, "and my memory goes further but recalls nothing approaching it. On March 31, 1880, there was a snowfall of twelve inches, but that was twenty days earlier in the season. I measured the fall at 10 o'clock this morning, selecting a level place where the snow would fall naturally and I could obtain the nearest correct measurement and found that 16 inches had fallen. Two or three more inches have undoubtedly since fallen. I have not yet calculated the amount of rainfall this represents, but it is very heavy."
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1.
This is one of a series of documents that I have uploaded featuring Papa Charles in his Government Weather Observer role.
You can find the whole list in:
2.
Dueber Factory Forced to Close Because Enough Employes Did Not Come Out to Work
Fred was working at the Dueber factory at this time, so I'm including this in Fred's document list. I wonder if this was the snowstorm that Mama Margaret was talking about in a letter to Eva nearly 20 years later: I have not seen so much snow since the deep snow in Canton while on Eighth St and Fred made walks before we could get out.
I don't know, but I'm sure that Fred did the shoveling for this storm.
3.
I looked around to see if there was information on this storm, and found: The post included a image of Papa Charles's record, which I'm adding here, with the caption. I should go find it at the source myself, and see if there's anything more there to interest me. Maybe someday.
This is one of a series of documents that I have uploaded featuring Papa Charles in his Government Weather Observer role.
- The previous document in the series is: 1900-10-09 NEWSPAPER ITEM FEATURING PAPA CHARLES
- The next document in the series is: 1901-09-10 NEWSPAPER ITEM ABOUT PAPA CHARLES
You can find the whole list in:
2.
Dueber Factory Forced to Close Because Enough Employes Did Not Come Out to Work
Fred was working at the Dueber factory at this time, so I'm including this in Fred's document list. I wonder if this was the snowstorm that Mama Margaret was talking about in a letter to Eva nearly 20 years later: I have not seen so much snow since the deep snow in Canton while on Eighth St and Fred made walks before we could get out.
I don't know, but I'm sure that Fred did the shoveling for this storm.
3.
I looked around to see if there was information on this storm, and found: The post included a image of Papa Charles's record, which I'm adding here, with the caption. I should go find it at the source myself, and see if there's anything more there to interest me. Maybe someday.
The 4.82" of precipitation is .60 plus 2.40 plus 1.82, and the 42.0 " is 2.0 plus 24.0 plus 16.0.
4.
This article caught my eye because it was published 8 days after Papa Charles claimed to be totally incapable of manual labor. See: He says that at the time he filed his application for increase pension on June 23rd, 1900, he was, and for a long time before that time, had been wholly disabled from performing any kind of manual labor, or earning any part of his support by manual labor.
Also, from a doctor's testimony a couple of day's later: There can be no doubt that from the time I first examined him in June, 1900, till now, he has been totally incapacitated from the performance of manual labor. I mean he has been unable to work. Any attempt to do work, would have immediately prostrated him.
4.
This article caught my eye because it was published 8 days after Papa Charles claimed to be totally incapable of manual labor. See: He says that at the time he filed his application for increase pension on June 23rd, 1900, he was, and for a long time before that time, had been wholly disabled from performing any kind of manual labor, or earning any part of his support by manual labor.
Also, from a doctor's testimony a couple of day's later: There can be no doubt that from the time I first examined him in June, 1900, till now, he has been totally incapacitated from the performance of manual labor. I mean he has been unable to work. Any attempt to do work, would have immediately prostrated him.
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