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"The Big Freeze" in California Redlands (1913)...
"The Big Freeze" in California Redlands (1913)...
Item # 699525
January 07, 1913
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Jan. 7, 1913
* "The Big Freeze" - Redlands
* California citrus fruit disaster
The top of the front page has a four column headline:: "INCALCULABLE HARM DONE TO LEMONS, ORANGES AND VEGETABLES BY COLD; MERCURY DOWN TO 24.9 AT 6:15" with subheads and more. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 16 pages, small library stamp within the masthead, a little irregular along the spine, generally very nice.
source: The Big Freeze: The “Big Freeze of 1913” caught most San Diegans by surprise. A sudden cold front from the
north blew into Southern California on January 5, dropping the early morning temperature in San
Diego into the 20s. For the next two days San Diegans shivered in the record-setting cold and
citrus farmers held their breath as ice covered their lemons and oranges.
The freeze that hit San Diego was the tail end of an icy cold wave
running throughout the West. Cheyenne, Wyoming reported 24
degrees below zero and Steamboat Springs, Colorado claimed an
astonishing minus 54. Even in temperate Southern California,
Pasadena dropped to 24 degrees and Pomona, 18 degrees
Category: The 20th Century
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